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Widow warns of DVT risk as millionaire husband dies after long-haul flight

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Millionaire Jonathan Peacock died from DVT after a flight. His widow wants others to avoid the same fate.
The video footage may have been a little shaky, but there was no mistaking the sentiment.
As […]

Knee-Saving Exercises

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
–Henry David Thoreau
Perform an internet search concerning knee injuries, and youll find a lot of information about how to treat an injury.
Where are all the articles about attempting to prevent […]

China finds problems with kids’ snacks

BEIJING (AP) Chinese inspectors found excessive amounts of additives and preservatives in dozens of children’s snacks and seized hundreds of bottles of fake human blood protein from hospitals, officials said Tuesday.
China’s dismal health and safety record Д both within and outside its borders Д has increasingly come under the spotlight as its goods […]

A Threat to the Yellowstone Grizzlies

By Pat Dawson
On a steep, rocky alpine slope outside the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park, scientists examine what they call the “dead trees standing,” a copse of ancient whitebark pine trees [Pinus albicaulis] that have thrived for thousands of years on these snowy Montana peaks. But lately the once-hardy trees, whose cone seeds […]

Goal-driven achievers less prone to Alzheimer’s

CHICAGO (AP) A surprising study of elderly people suggests that those who see themselves as self-disciplined, organized achievers have a lower risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease than people who are less conscientious.
A purposeful personality may somehow protect the brain, perhaps by increasing neural connections that can act as a reserve against mental decline, […]