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01/13/10
Cracking your back sends nitrogen and carbon dioxide bubbles from the tissue surrounding your spine into the facet joints that link your vertebrae. Those bubbles cause the joints to relax, which makes them more susceptible to injury if you happen to exercises soon after. Worst case, you could end up with a herniated disk. To [...]
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11/10/09
I don’t watch too much TV, but one of the few shows is HOUSE. In tonight’s HOUSE episode, a teenage patient is treated for rhabdomyolysis. But what is rhabdomyolysis or rhabdo? Rhabdomyolysis strikes a teenage girl tonight who shows swollen extremities. Her symptoms are so severe that a friend says she looks like the marshmallow [...]
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09/12/09
Here’s what the President told Men’s Health Editor Peter Moore: “I actually think it’s an idea that we should be exploring. There’s no doubt that our kids drink way too much soda. And every study that’s been done about obesity shows that there is as high a correlation between increased soda consumption and obesity as [...]
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