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Zika virus outbreak on Yap Island! Avoid Micronesians!
The Island of Yap
Is a speck on the map:
But it’s slightly easier
To detect Micronesia.
A virus called Zika
Made some Islanders sicker,
But they all got better,
And there’s an end to the metter:
Let’s twist no knicker
For a virus called Zika.
Alcohol and Suicide Among Racial/Ethnic Populations — 17 States, 2005–2006
This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicated that the overall prevalence of alcohol intoxication (i.e., blood alcohol concentration [BAC] at or above the legal limit of 0.08 g/dL) was nearly 24% among suicide decedents tested for alcohol, with the highest percentage occurring among American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) (37%), followed by Hispanics (29%) and persons aged 20–49 years (28%).
Because competing causes of mortality often outweigh the potential benefit from detecting colon cancer at progressively older ages, guidelines do not recommend screening past age 75 and recommend against it after 85.
Heart Minute: Red Yeast Rice Decreases LDL
Watch this video if you only have a minute to learn about red yeast rice. This is the same study cited in an earlier post on red yeast rice.
New-onset AF was associated with an 80% higher risk of 90-day mortality.
This is a very small study involving just 62 patients with elevated cholesterol levels. The results however, are promising with an average decrease in LDL levels of 35mg/dl versus patients receiving a placebo.
Click here to read the Mayo Clinic article explaining Red Yeast Rice.
Colorectal Cancer Rates Rising for Under 50 Set – BusinessWeek
To get a handle on the trends, Siegel and her team reviewed data on about 11,000 men and 9,800 women younger than 50 that was gleaned from 13 U.S. cancer registries that tracked information from 1992 through2005. During this time, the researchers found, colorectal cancer rates increased 1.5 percent a year among men younger than 50 and 1.6 percent
a year among women younger than 50.
This explains why my BP is normal…
lifeunderwriter.net 
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