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Listen and Learn – NPR Report on Chantix and Zyban

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Anti-Smoking Drugs May Have Psychological Effects : NPR

Quitting smoking was the easiest thing I’ve ever done.

It was so easy I did it seven times.

Tobacco-free for nearly 28 years.

Preferred.

Mom Was Right – Eat Your Veggies, Lower Your BP

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Natural Health – Lower Your Blood Pressure with Vegetable Proteins | Health News

Tofu burger anyone?

AAA Surgery Outcomes Improve

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Medical News: Survival Improves for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery – in Surgery, Thoracic Surgery from MedPage Today

Patients with AAA who were operated on from 2000 to 2005 had 4.7% higher relative five-year survival rates compared with patients whose surgery took place between 1987 and 1999 (99% CI 1.3 to 8.1), according to the study published June 6 in Circulation, the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2

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Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2 a Novel Risk Marker

Hey Hank!  Give us a speech on this biomarker!

Oops! Missed Another One

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Medical News: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Often Missed on CT Scans – in Radiology, Diagnostic Radiology from MedPage Today

Moreover, 9% of aneurysms unidentified were 5.5 cm or larger, and clinical teams didn’t recognize 58% of dilations within three months of the scan.

Oops.

Know Your Receptor Status in Breast Cancer Risks

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Medical News: Receptor Status Drives Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk – in Oncology, Breast Cancer from MedPage Today

Scary Chart of the Day – July 11, 2009

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Having fun with numbers.

Having fun with numbers.

EconomPic: The “Exhaustion Rate” Underestimates the Issue

Read this blog article to gain a deeper understanding of how bad things really are.

Lincoln Update – July 10, 2009

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Lincoln Injects Cash Into Life Unit After Taking TARP (Update3) – Bloomberg.com

Scary Chart of the Day – July 10, 2009

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Does it look like the numbers are trending down or staying steady?

Does it look like the numbers are trending down or staying steady?

NPR: Why You Can’t Trust The New Job-Loss Numbers

Cheese Fries, No Chili Please. I’m Cutting Back

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Medical News: Low-Calorie Diet May be Fountain of Youth – in Geriatrics, General Geriatrics from MedPage Today

Coming soon to your teleunderwriting operation – the CCDDQ.

(Calories Consumed Drill Down Questionnaire)

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Chili Peppers of the World

Capsaicin, the compound that makes chili peppers hot is an evolutionary filter designed to punish mammals and reward birds. Mammals feel it as pain because mammal digestion destroys seeds. Birds don’t have the receptor that detects it, so they eat the fruit, fly off, and deposit the seeds far from the plant from which they […]

Eat Ice Cream With NO Guilt

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Black Bean and Corn Salad

I  seriously wonder if there are any original recipes out there.  You think to yourself “Let’s make a black bean and corn thing tonight”.  So you do what everyone else does and hop on the internet to find numerous recipes that are pretty much the same. Full Disclosure: This recipe is a copycat and my […]

100 at 100 – The United HealthCare Survey

Interesting insights from the oldest of the old. All charts are from the survey report which can downloaded here: https://www.uhc.com/content/dam/uhcdotcom/en/general/100-at-100-Final-Report-Aug2025.pdf

Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Eating #1

I was in St. Louis on business. One day these things showed up at the office. I had one (OK, two) after breakfast. Yes, they are that good. Memo to Self – Don’t get depressed that you only learned about this delicacy in your 7th decade. I wonder if they deliver to Oklahoma.

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