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Charles J. Lockwood, M.D., the Anita O’ Keefe Young Professor of Women’s Health and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine, has been named President of the Society for Gynecological Investigation (SGI) for the 20072008 term.Yale Chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences Receives Prestigious Honors (Yale University)

Police in Maragua stumbled on Mungiki suspects with parts of male Reproductive organs. Local Officer Commanding Police Division, Mr Stanley Lamai, said the scene was also littered with blood and other paraphernalia associated with the sect.Kenya: Body Parts Found At Scene of Ritual

“My baby is doing what other babies her age are doing — she’s feeding herself, putting on her own clothes and she loves to dance.” Lolita Harding is describing her daughter Dave’yana, who will turn three in September, thanks in large part to a thymus transplant she received at Duke University Medical Center in April 2005 to reconstitute her absent immune system.

Thymus transplants gives hope to babies with fatal immune disease

Dell Inc. chairman Michael Dell gestures during a news conference at the newly open Dell Philippines customer contact centre in Manila, in this March 21, 2006 file photo. Microsoft Corp. said on Monday Dell Inc. had joined a business collaboration it had with Novell Inc. to allow open-source Linux software to work with Windows. REUTERS/Cheryl RaveloOpen Source New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday accused Dell Inc. and its financial services affiliate of “bait and switch” advertising and failing to deliver on promised customer service.

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MANITOWOC The Manitowoc County Women In Management Chapter will hold its monthly meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, June 12, at the Best Western Lakefront Hotel, 101 Maritime Drive. Keynote speaker Dr. Scott Voskuil, Manitowoc, will discuss perimenopause.Womens group to meet June 12 (Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter)

UPDATED: 05 :17 a.m. EDT, May 23, 2007 Talk about this story and more in the forum.Chiefs’ bats stymied again (The Post-Standard)

Leading scorer Michael Redd will miss the Milwaukee Bucks’ final six games of the season, the team announced Monday.

Bucks’ Redd to Miss Final Six Games

In the DALLAS MORNING NEWS, Eddie Sefko writes if anybody believes Dirk Nowitzki has arrived because he’s joined the MVP ranks, you’d be right. Presuming, of course, that you’re talking about an arrival at the midpoint of a long journey. Nowitzki has no plans to sit still for long after winning the MVP. Because even if he did, coach Avery Johnson wouldn’t let him. Before Nowitzki packed up the MVP trophy for its trip to Germany, he was given something else a to-do list for his off-season.

Even After MVP, Dirk Ready To Improve Game

Most TV comedy can be Americanized. Not the silly-walking men.

Comedy: Why the British Killed King Leer

TechWeb – At its annual JavaOne show, Sun introduced a “preview” version of a new scripting language, JavaFX, aimed at Web content creators.

The Women’s Environmental Network is a registered charity educating, informing and empowering women and men who care about the environment. It researches and campaigns on environmental and health issues from a female perspective.WEN

Up-to-the-minute coverage of the fashion, retail, beauty, accessory and textile industries. Access breaking news, trend reports and in-depth analysis from Women’s Wear Daily, the bible of the fashion industry.WWD.com Fashion news, retail news, beauty news and more from Women’s Wear Daily

The third annual Spring into Health Dinner will be held Friday at the Fountains Conference Center at the Four Points by Sheraton in Fairview Heights.Spring into Health Dinner to be held Friday (St. Clair County Journal)

Scientists led by Dr. Gabriel del Ro at the Instituto de Fisiologia Celular/UNAM, have developed an automatic procedure that allows scientists for the first time to identify the critical elements of proteins from their shape exclusively.

Automatic identification of protein’s critical features from the structure

An analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Peers has found that adolescents select friends whose attitudes about sex are consistent with their own attitudes. The findings are based on a sample of 1350 15- to 18- year olds. The research also revealed that adolescents whose friends engaged in high-risk sexual behavior — having intercourse without a condom — were also more likely to engage in high-risk sexual behaviors in the next year.

Adolescents with high-risk sexual attitudes attract peers with similar attitudes

News about cancer, it seems, is everywhere, but impressions can be misleading.

The Basics: A Leading Cause of Death, but Less So

AP – Big smiles spread across the faces of the 160 pupils at a public elementary school in this rural South American hamlet: Each sat gawking at a brightly blinking laptop computer given them days earlier.

Uruguay children try low-cost laptops
(AP)

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A nutrition note with this colorful main-dish family recipe: You can decide whether you use egg substitute or real eggs. The recipe is from the “Betty Crocker Win at Weight Loss Cookbook” by James Hill (Wiley, $25), subtitled “A Health Guide for the Whole Family.”A breakfast dish fit for the whole family (Daily Bulletin)

The Dallas Mavericks have already matched their franchise record with 60 victories, and still have 11 regular-season games left. The first team to have three 12-game winning streaks in the same season, Dallas needs only two more wins for another stretch o

Mavericks Win 60 Games, But Are Still Far From Goal

Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs, seen here holding an iPod in 2005. After launching action against Microsoft and Intel, the European Union's competition watchdog has taken aim at another US computer giant, Apple, over the price of songs on its online music store.(AFP/Getty Images/File)AP – Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs received a salary of $1 last year, according to documents filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Oat Bakes, presented as a healthy snack alternative to crisps, have been launched by the UKs number one oat cake manufacturer Nairns Oat Cakes.UK: Oat Bakes offer a healthy alternative to crisps (Just Food)

The Race to the MVP ranks the Top 20 players after Week 24.

Week 24: And the MVP Is .

Richard Hamilton scored 23 points and the Pistons beat the Chicago Bulls 95-85 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Thursday night, clinching a series that turned tense after Detroit won the first three games.

Pistons Win Game 6, Eliminate Feisty Bulls

Health Publishing Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. and Endemol, creator of the "Big Brother" television show, said on Monday they are partnering on a new project that will combine reality television and online virtual reality like the Second Life virtual world.

Alternative health practice. A health or medical practice is called alternative ; if it is based on untested, . alternative" medical practices are not truly "alternative," but quackery. If the "alternative" health practice is . The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Alternative Medicine has supported a number of research studies of . Healthfinder – the federal consumer health information gateway links to more than 5,000 reliable sites on health and . This fact has made "alternative" treatments attractive to Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and to insurance . common traits among those who seek "alternative" therapies. See entries for the following "alternative" health practices . The main reason people seek "alternative" health care, however, is that they think it "works." That is, they feel better . Why is "alternative" health care so popular?. The New England Journal of Medicine reported on a study in January 1993 . Alternative Health practice

An Alternative Health approach, by combining intuitive medical intuition, clairvoyant readings, mind/body energy medicine and nutritional supplements.Alternative Health – Intuitive Medical Intuition

By Sligar, Kristen; Savitz, Molly; Schapiro, NaDevelopment of the Child Health Indicator Assessment (CHIA) in a Community-Based Nurse-Managed Center (RedNova)

University of Colorado at Boulder researchers are forecasting a one in three chance that the 2007 minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic region will set an all-time record low.

U of Colorado researchers forecast 1 in 3 chance of record low sea ice in 2007

America wants progress reports. What?s lacking in Iraq is good information.

The World: In the Heat of Battle and Politics, Hard Facts Melt

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LANCASTER – John and Linda Lamb are exhausting their options to find affordable health insurance coverage before their current coverage runs out.Former Anchor Hocking employees scramble to find insurance (CentralOhio.com)

Kobe Bryant scored 17 points in the first nine minutes Sunday night, but cooled off after that and finished with 43 in the Lakers’ fifth straight victory, a 115-113 triumph over the Golden State Warriors.

Kobe’s Scoring Streak Ends, But Lakers Win Again

A common genetic variation on chromosome 9p21 is linked to a substantial increase in risk for heart attack. Researchers found individuals with the variation have a 1.64-fold greater risk of suffering a heart attack (myocardial infarction) and a 2.02-fold greater risk of suffering a heart attack early in life than those without the variation. Approximately 21 percent of individuals of European descent carry two copies of the genetic variation (one from each parent).

Common genetic variation is linked to substantial risk for heart attack

AP – U.S. album sales are down 17 percent so far this year, a downward spiral caused in part by a surge in online music purchases and fewer big-name albums being released in the first quarter.

U.S. album sales down, digital sales up
(AP)

InfoWorld – In a move that could help it fight foe Oracle but anger some longtime allies, Red Hat Thursday officially began selling and providing technical support for popular business software that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat ratchets up co-opetition with IBM, HP
(InfoWorld)

Health insurance is the term used to describe an insurance contract covering and protecting an individual from economic hardship in the event of catastrophic illness or injury. Health insurance is often provided by an individuals employer, within an arrangement where the employee makes a monetary contribution to the group health plan, and in return can select from a variety of health coverage options.The basics of short-term health insurance

Copyright 2007 ScoutNews LLC. All rights reserved. SUNDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) — A strange thing happened after government recommendations on a healthy diet designed to control high blood pressure were issued in 1999: The percentage of Americans with high blood pressure following those recommendations went down , according to a new study.Many With High Blood Pressure Shun Heart-Healthy Diet (HealthCentral.com)

Heart attacks are the top killer of both men and women in the United States. CHRISTIANSBURG — Sharon Gotkiewicz’s mother had diabetes and congestive heart failure and suffered five heart attacks. Three others in Gotkiewicz’s family had diabetes or heart conditions. To learn the risks associated with such health conditions, she started doing medical research through the American Heart .Healthy eating, regular exercise can stave off heart problems (The New River Valley Current)

Polyphenols, dietary substances from vegetables, fruits and green tea, bring about a change in the energy metabolism. Dutch researcher Vincent de Boer has discovered that polyphenols increase the fatty acid breakdown in rats and influence the glucose use in fat cells.

Fatty acid catabolism higher due to polyphenol intake

There is no consensus on Emergency Department management of acute atrial fibrillation (AAF) or atrial flutter (AAFL). The Ottawa Aggressive Protocol, consisting of an IV procainamide infusion of 1 gram over 1 hour, electrical cardioversion, if necessary, by ED staff and discharge from the ED with outpatient cardiology follow-up, may be a safe and effective treatment for AAF and AAFL.

Ottawa aggressive protocol for acute atrial fibrillation is successful

InfoWorld – A security researcher at Juniper Networks has developed a new form of attack that can be used to run unauthorized software on a wide range of computing devices, including routers and mobile phones.

New attack puts routers, cell phones at risk
(InfoWorld)

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It seems logical that wearing a bike helmet makes a cyclist safer on the road. But Ian Walker, a traffic psychologist at the University of Bath in Great Britain and avid cyclist, began to question that logic when he and cycling friends noticed that cars seemed to give them less leeway when they were helmeted.USNews.com Health Diet, Fitness, and Exercise Does a helmet really help

Aetna and CIGNA made major strides in the latest Barron’s 500 rankings, which rate U.S. and Canadian companies on various financial measures and stock price improvement.Accolades For Aetna, CIGNA

Computer scientists and cultural heritage researchers are assessing whether today’s increasingly sophisticated 3-D computer technology can be combined with the most recent historical evidence to produce significantly improved visual reconstructions of churches, palaces and other ancient sites. Walk like an Egyptian — or a Roman — experience what the past really looked like

A skull and crossbones are seen above a computer keyboard.   Estonia's second-biggest bank, Swedish-owned SEB Eesti Uhispank, was forced Tuesday to block access from abroad to its online banking service after it came under Estonia’s second-biggest bank, Swedish-owned SEB Eesti Uhispank, was forced Tuesday to block access from abroad to its online banking service after it came under “massive cyber-attack”, an official said. Cyber attacks force Estonian bank to close website

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With the state House of Representatives in New Hampshire considering two bills this week that will increase the cost of health insurance (Senate Bill 93), InsuranceSalesman.com asks the pressing question the public wants answered: Could affordable health insurance quotes soon become a thing of the past for consumers in the United States?New Legislation Threatens to Hike Health Insurance Premiums; InsuranceSalesman.com asks – Could Affordable Health . (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Humana (NYSE: HUM) announced today the introduction of a new portfolio of individual health insurance plans under its HumanaOne brand, designed to make it easy for consumers to select a plan according to their own personal preferences, lifestyles and budgets.Humana Introduces New, Flexible Individual Health Insurance Plans (RedNova)

Despite the current telenovela version of the relationship between Henry Tudor and Anne Boleyn in Showtime?s ?The Tudors,? a reading of Henry?s actual letters gives insight into the wooing of a woman, 16th-century style.

Reading File: Dear Anne, Not Ready to Kill You Yet

Nippo's Linear T6 Fluorescent System illuminates attendees at the Lightfair International trade show Tuesday, May 8, 2007 in New York. The light bulb, the symbol of bright ideas, doesn't look like such a great idea anymore, as lawmakers in the U.S. and abroad are talking about banning the century-old technology because of its contribution to global warming. But what comes next? Compact fluorescent bulbs are the only real alternative right now, but 'bulbs' that use light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are quickly emerging as a challenger.  (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP – The light bulb, the symbol of bright ideas, doesn’t look like such a great idea anymore, as lawmakers in the U.S. and abroad are talking about banning the century-old technology because of its contribution to global warming.


LEDs emerge to fight fluorescents
(AP)

Previously-published research has given credence to the notion that psychotherapy extends the lives of people with cancer. In fact, one in four cancer patients believe that science supports the idea that participating in group therapy will extend their lives. However, researchers as the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine concluded — after an extensive research review — that there is no compelling evidence linking psychotherapy or support groups with survival among cancer patients.

New research disproves belief that group psychotherapy extends the lives of cancer patients

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