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The Virginian Pilot January 28 2008 - Don't take it personally when someone yawns while you're talking. According to an article in Evolutionary Psychology, yawning does not mean your colleague is bored or uninterested. It means his or her brain is overheated, perhaps because it has been working hard at paying attention. (Here's the science: Difficult mental tasks raise cortical metabolism, ...

...fighting over who would do the most to increase the number of Americans with health insurance and expand access to care. But their plans don’t ensure that there will be enough doctors and nurses will treat all those new patients....

April 22nd is Equal Pay Day, and new research by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation shows that just one year out of college, women working full-time earn only 80 percent of their male colleagues’ salaries, even when they work in the same field. Ten years after graduation, the pay gap widens, with women earning 69 percent of what ...

State officials are launching an investigation into the death of a 10-year-old autistic boy who wandered away from a home for the disabled Sunday. Staff members, police and firefighters were searching for the boy at the time he was discovered floating in a rural creek about a five-minute walk from RHA Howell Care Center along the Mecklenburg-Cabarrus county line. A staff ...

Labor organizing can be tense under the best of circumstances, but in bucolic Sonoma County, one such effort has escalated to a theological debate of sorts, pitting Catholic nuns against their ecclesiastic brethren in a dispute involving labor rights, the church's social teachings and a multibillion-dollar business. On one side are the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, who operate Santa ...

MSNBC NEWS/Associated Press January 28 2008 - New York - Could it be that the natural mental decline that affects many of the older people is related to how much lead they absorbed decades before? That's the provocative idea emerging from recent studies, part of a broader area of new research that suggests some pollutants can cause harm that shows up ...

Riverhead , N.Y. -- For months, the nurses complained that they were subject to demeaning and unfair working conditions - not what they were promised when they came to America from the Philippines in search of a better life. So they abruptly quit. But in doing so, they put more than their careers at risk: Prosecutors hit them with criminal charges ...

MSNBC NEWS/Associated Press - January 27 2008 - Sandusky Ohio - Nursing home worker , John Riems, had a temper and spent long periods in patient's rooms with the doors closed, neighbors and co-workers say. Troubling observations that have suddenly taken on a sickening weight. "We've had several residents, they don't want him touching them, they don't want him in their ...

MSNBC NEWS by Linda Dahlstrom - "PAPA SMURF" as Paul Karason, 57 years old, is called, is blue, for real. Permanently. He says he turned blue, over a period of time, starting a decade ago after he tried treating a skin condition on his face with a silver preparation. He's also been drinking colloidal silver, which is silver in liquid suspension, ...

Whether you believe this or not, its still a kind of an interesting comparison. A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye...and YES science now shows that carrots greatly enhance blood fl

The Virginian Pilot January 27 2008 by Josh Mitchell/The Baltimore Sun/Annapolis Md. - An attempt by the Naval Academy to honor Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. last week by serving fried chicken, greens and cornbread in the midshipmen's dining hall sparked a debate on campus about racial sensitivity. On Tuesday, the academy served these items, along with mashed potatos, pie and ...

The Virginian Pilot/Parade Magazine January 27 2008by Michael O' Shea -1)YOU'RE NOT EATING ENOUGH - Going long periods without food can lead to cravings and binges.A diet only works in the long run if you can stick to it-and total deprivation is impossible to sustain. 2) YOU WANT A QUICK FIX - 2) Fancy exercise machines or pills may be tempting, ...

Future chefs learn how to cut trans fat By MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press Writer Sat Jan 26, 4:47 PM ET The movement to ban artery-clogging trans fats from food has a new venue: cooking schools. The places that train the people who will s

THE numbers can be worrisome - 1 out of 10 hospitalized patients picks up an infection or suffers some kind of mistake while in the hospital, statistics show. And the stories are frightening - Dennis Quaid's newborn babies were given a huge overdose of a drug two months ago at a hospital with a top-notch reputation. So what is a medical ...

The Virginian Pilot January 26 2008 by Maria Cheng/The Associated Press - London - Women on the birth control pill are protected from ovarian cancer, even decades after they stop taking it. British researchers found that women taking the pill for 15 years, halved their chances of developing ovarian cancer and that the risk remained low more than 30 years later, ...

The Virginian Pilot January 26 2008 Spain/Madrid-from wire reports - A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury car, the government says. Enaltz Oriondo, 17, died instantly in August 2004 when businessman Tomas Delgado's Audi A8 crashed into him at 100 mph in northern Spain. The speed limit was 55 mph. ...

The Virginian Pilot January 24 2008 by Denise Grady/The New York Times - Weight-loss surgery works much better than standard medical therapy as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes in obese people, the first study to compare the two approaches has found. The study of 60 patients showed that 73% of those who had surgery had complete remissions of diabetes, meaning ...

The Virginian Pilot January 25 2008 by Matthew Jones - Norfolk - A Navy hospital corpsman who claimed he rescued six Marines and recovered the bodies of four others in the early days of the Iraq war was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for wearing military ribbons he did not earn. Petty Officer 2nd class Dontae l. Tazewell also ...

TOKYO (AP) — Kazuhiro Ukiuchi loves his tuna sushi, and he tries to have it once a week — despite the common knowledge in Japan the popular fish can contain toxic mercury. "I wouldn't worry about it," Ukiuchi said, strolling through Tokyo's main fish market Friday. "We're not talking about eating 10 tuna sushi every day — in which case I ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Employers can fire workers who use medical marijuana even if it was legally recommended by a doctor, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday, dealing the state another setback in its standoff with federal law enforcement. The high court upheld a small Sacramento telecommunications company's firing of a man who flunked a company-ordered drug test. Gary Ross held ...