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Steve Jobs’ Cancer Timeline and Eating Disorder: An Infographic

Walter Isaacson‘s new biography of Steve Jobshas now filled in some of the missing medical details of Jobs’ 8-year battle with cancer. The three chapters describing different phases of his illness are: Chapter 35 Round One: Memento Mori (“Remember you will die”) Chapter 37 Round Two: The Cancer Recurs Chapter 41 Round Three: The Twilight [...]

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WARNING: Reality Shows can be Hazardous to Your Health!

Did you watch the season premier of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve been bombarded with the news about Russell Armstrong’s suicide (Russell was the estranged husband of one of those housewives). Why Did He Do It? Because he hated being on the show and/or because his [...]

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Megan Fox is Removing Tattoo of Idol with Mental Illness

Megan Fox's tatttoo

Actress and model Megan Fox announced that she is removing her famous tattoo of Marilyn Monroe from her right forearm. Fox initially got the tattoo because she claimed to identify with the tragic actress because they both suffered from bipolar disorder. In addition, Fox said the tattoo served as a daily reminder to avoid Marilyn’s mistakes. Now, she just [...]

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Princess Victoria of Sweden is Having a Baby!

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden can soon add a new title to her name…mom! According to a statement issued by the Swedish palace, the 34-year-old, born Victoria Ingrid Alice Désirée, expects to give birth sometime in March. She and former personal trainer Daniel Westling, 37, were married last June in a large ceremony with over [...]

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Do You Have Tanorexia??

Does the thought of a fading tan-line make your palms get sweaty? Do you have the local tanning salon on speed dial? If so, you may have tanorexia, or an addiction to tanning. Even though tanning has been linked with an increased risk of skin cancer, premature skin aging and melanoma, millions of people still [...]

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Rebecca Black and 10 Myths About Bullying

Rebecca Black may now be laughing all the way to the bank, but her new found fame has come at a price. The fourteen year old is now being home-schooled by her mother because of bullying at school. It’s been a roller coaster year for Black, who became a  YouTube sensation with her song “Friday” [...]

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Migraines Become a Headache for Presidential Hopeful Michele Bachmann

As if GOP Presidential candidate Congresswoman Michele Bachmann doesn’t have enough controversy around her, Bachmann is now having to answer questions about her health. Yesterday, she acknowledged that she suffers from chronic migraine attacks. Although the condition is not life-threatening, some have questioned whether the headaches, which have been described as occasionally being “incapacitating” would [...]

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WANTED: Charming, aggressive, carefree people who are good at looking out for Number 1

If our headline describes you, you could be a psychopath. Really. Our title is actually part of a classified newspaper ad that researchers used to recruit potential psychopaths from non-jailed populations. The goal of the research was to study the differences between “successful” and “unsuccessful psychopaths.” Successful psychopaths are people that who would flunk The Psychopath [...]

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Wow! Scientology & Nude Psychotherapy in New Book by Goats’ Author Ronson

Do you remember Tom Cruise‘s rant against psychiatry on the Today Show with Matt Lauer in 2007? Mr. Cruise, a member of the Church of Scientology, has been so consistently outspoken against psychiatry that the International Association of Scientology awarded him the Freedom Medal of Valor in 2004, in part for “eradicating the very thought [...]

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Part 6: The End of Sleep

In our final installment of National Sleep Awareness Week stories, we touch on some of the sleep disorders that can keep you awake. At least 40 million Americans each year suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders each year, and an additional 20 million experience occasional sleeping problems. These disorders and the resulting sleep deprivation interfere [...]

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