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CPSC Issues Warning on Exploding Fitness Balls

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a warning saying that some fitness balls can explode, causing the user bruises, contusions and even fractures from hitting the floor. Such balls produced by EB Brands are now being recalled and replaced following a series of incidents caused by their exploding, the wa...

17 April 2009
21:21 GMT

Tanorexia Responsible for Soaring Number of Skin Cancer Cases

Having a healthy, glowing, bronzed look throughout the year has become, for many women, a top priority. When holidaying to sunny locations to achieve it is not possible, most of them choose tanning beds or, to a lesser extent, spray tans, without even realizing the kind of dangers they are exposing themselves to with...

8 April 2009
15:11 GMT

The Most Extreme Ways to Lose Weight

In an ideal world, in our constant struggle to lose weight, or to keep the pounds off, depending on the case, we would turn to a healthy diet and a regular workout routine. In practice, though, there still are countless women who resort to quick and extremely dangerous methods of losing the weight. Some of them are l...

6 April 2009
09:17 GMT

Risk of Sudden Death at Triathlons Bigger than at Marathons

With the popularity of triathlons skyrocketing, researchers have analyzed the cases of sudden deaths during this type of competitions over 33 months. The results, as presented to the American College of Cardiology during its annual meeting, clearly point that the risk of sudden death during triathlons is considerably...

1 April 2009
15:31 GMT

Oxford Scientists Unveil the Health Commandments for All Women

We’ve all heard about the negative or beneficial effects one particular thing can have on our health and, implicitly, our life, but we have rarely been offered the full picture. Researchers at the Oxford University have gathered figures pertaining to over 1.3 million British women, and have consequently come up...

31 March 2009
16:31 GMT

TVs in Children’s Bedrooms Linked to Bad Behavior and Alienation

What with television sets becoming a fixture in most rooms of our houses, it’s no wonder that children are already starting to show in school the negative effects that much exposure to TV shows has. As Dr. Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in the UK, points out, childr...

31 March 2009
15:21 GMT

All-Natural Pepsi Natural Is Not Really That Natural

On March 5, Pepsi announced that it would be launching a revolutionizing soft drink that would replace high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) with natural sugar. Because of the sugar addition, the natural caramel and kola nut extract, the new beverage is being labeled as an all-natural drink that, somehow, would deter soda ...

25 March 2009
17:11 GMT

FDA Extends List of Tainted Weight Loss Products

In our constant struggle to lose the pounds and have the body we’ve always wanted, we often resort to little tricks, helpers or whatever else we like to call them, to aid us. It’s called cheating and we’re perhaps sacrificing our own health in the process, but, most of the time, we tend to believe w...

23 March 2009
13:51 GMT

Safety Concerns over In-Flight Entertainment Systems

Having a comfortable flight can often depend on such an apparently insignificant thing as being offered the option of choosing between tens of movies, shows or music tracks. Enter in-flight entertainment systems, which offer customers a wide range of choices. They also expose the same customers to the danger of losin...

23 March 2009
08:11 GMT

Macrolane Injections Are Unsafe, Deceiving Women

Women looking for more definition in certain parts of their body – backside and chest, more specifically – have now an alternative that is said to be considerably better than silicone implants or other types of surgical interventions. Macrolane injections guarantee more volume and shapeliness to the area ...

20 March 2009
15:21 GMT

An Unhealthy Lifestyle Increases the Risk of Cancer

Our lifestyle is changing so that to allow us to keep up the pace with everything else around us. Sadly, our lifestyle is also responsible for the rising number of cancer cases, as a new report by the World Cancer Research Fund has shown: drinking, lack of exercise and obesity are three of the most important factors,...

27 February 2009
12:01 GMT

Natural Pregnancies Should Prevail over IVF

While IVF has been hailed as the best method to conceive when chances of a natural pregnancy are slim to none, doctors advise that couples wait for nature to run its course before heading to the doctor’s. A new study has shown that chances for women who have tried for a year to have a baby and turn to IVF to ge...

25 February 2009
15:21 GMT

Social Networking Rewires Children’s Brain, Doctors Warn

The implications of the latest advances in technology have often been discussed, with pros and cons weighed in the balance, but with seemingly no convenient conclusion or solution on sight. Neuroscientists and psychologists have again rallied to speak against the dangers of leaving children under seven in front of th...

24 February 2009
16:31 GMT

Veneers – Incredibly Painful, Expensive and Irreversible Procedure

They say nothing makes a more lasting impression than the closest thing to a perfect smile. Today, thanks to the advances in the dental world, having a mind-blowing smile is easily attainable by means of cosmetic dentistry. This means either getting the teeth professionally whitened or having veneers put in, but what...

24 February 2009
14:41 GMT

Melanotan, the Illegal Tanning Drug Millions of Women Use Regularly

Whenever in need for a quick tan, women who don’t want to go through the fuss and mess of tanning beds or spray tans have now just the thing they need. It implies an injection into the fleshy part of the abdomen, and is guaranteed to create an even, golden tan in about a week. It is also an illegal and highly u...

21 January 2009
16:41 GMT

How to Serve Casu Marzu, the Illegal Cheese Laden with Live Maggots

File this under oddities, or under “reserved exclusively for the daring.” Casu Marzu is, for those who haven’t heard of it yet, a type of cheese made of sheep milk and found in Sardinia, Italy. What is peculiar about it is that it comes filled with live larvae, which is why it is also illegal for ob...

16 January 2009
04:56 GMT

30 Diet Pills Available Online Are Extremely Dangerous

As the New Year’s Eve is approaching, so is the race to lose that one last pound intensifying. For many, this means more attention to their diet and calorie intake, more physical exercise and clearly less indulging in the Christmas goodies. However, there are also many people, women in particular, for whom this...

24 December 2008
06:21 GMT

Set Low Expectations for a Truly Happy Christmas

Being jolly over the winter holidays is desired, but doctors say that we should play the moderation card in terms of our expectations for Christmas to avoid crashing. In other words, recent warnings issued by several groups say that we should not set too high expectations for this holiday season to avoid heartbreak, ...

23 December 2008
17:51 GMT

God's Particle Costs $29 Million in Repairs to the LHC

Following the glitches in September, known as "quench" happening during the "S34 Incident," which affected sectors 3-4 of the Large Hadron Collider's ring, the repairs were estimated to cost about 35 million Swiss francs ($29 million), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced yesterday. Ac...

6 December 2008
04:33 GMT

World's Best Tsunami Warning System Built in Indonesia

Indonesia was caught by surprise and largely affected by a massive tsunami wave four years ago, which caused approximately 170,000 people to go missing or to be found dead across the sultanate of the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province, situated on the northern portion of the Sumatra island. As a result, since then, a ...

11 November 2008
09:24 GMT

Mobileye Reduces Car Crash Risk by 80 Percent

As car accidents cause more victims every year, it became clear that some form of warning system for drivers had to be developed. Experts from the Netherlands-based company Mobileye took on the challenge, and designed a camera that is able to recognize potential threats to the security of the car, warning the driver ...

22 October 2008
09:24 GMT

WWDC Early Registration Approaching an End

Apple fans logging on to the Cupertino-based corporation's website will notice that the panorama has changed a bit, as a way to remind those looking to attend its WWDC 2008 that early registration ends on the 25th, this month. The message "Calling All Developers", next to additional information about registratio...

24 April 2008
17:51 GMT

YouTube Latest Innovation: Mute Users!

Google's video sharing service YouTube has just made some important changes to the policy enforcement systems and, according to the officials, there's more modifications to come in the near future. Most changes concern the unaccepted user behavior such as violating the internal guidelines or uploading clips...

18 April 2008
10:36 GMT

Say 'Strawberry Meth' and Receive a Get-Out-of-School Free Card

In the history of not checking things that should be double-checked, the eighty Oxfordshire schools, jumping through hoops over the warning of a possible threat of the deadly "Strawberry Meth" or "Strawberry Quick," and the officer propagating the message should have one of the top positions. Truth be told, the schoo...

5 March 2008
10:14 GMT

Kate Moss Believes Sienna Miller Will Break Rhys Ifans' Heart

Kate Moss is turning into some sort of guardian angel for her scruffy friend Rhys Ifans, and all the more so ever since Ifans fell for the much more glamorous Sienna Miller. But seeing that Sienna certainly doesn't seem to share Ifans' enthusiasm for their budding romance, the Welsh actor's friends - K...

29 October 2007
11:35 GMT

Amy Winehouse's Dad Had Her Eulogy Ready

If we needed one more proof of the fact that drugged-out celebrities cause pain and chaos in the lives of all those who live with them, this is it. And this time, it's (again) the case of our favorite talented but most of the times completely wasted druggie, Amy Winehouse. Her father, Mitch, reveals to the press...

15 October 2007
06:30 GMT

New Pictures of the 40GB PS3 Package Featuring Warning Sign

Nothing new on the horizon, just these new pictures depicting the 40GB PS3 package have arrived. What's quite interesting is that Sony has actually written a warning sign on the back of the new SKU's package, saying "IMPORTANT: PlayStation 2 format software titles do not perform on this system." Had they us...

10 October 2007
02:55 GMT

Warning! - Important Security Measure

All people that are using the Internet in our days are somewhat vulnerable to identity theft, with hackers being so vicious and numerous. But out of all this people that use it, soon the most vulnerable will be the students. The new school year is about to start and people that are in college and other individuals th...

20 August 2007
10:46 GMT


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