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Toxic Legacy: Breast Implant Warriors Unite

Apr 30, 2019 02:45PM ● By Linda Sechrist

Women in growing numbers are joining together to deal with the long-term, serious health threats posed by saline and silicone implants.

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Plants Talk: Discover Their Secret Language

Apr 30, 2019 02:45PM ● By April Thompson

Plants may not be raising an audible ruckus, but scientists are finding they communicate silently with each other through smells, hearing and underground networks.

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Dancing Prevents Senior Decline: Improves Daily Living

Apr 30, 2019 11:46AM

Elderly Japanese women who danced for exercise were 73 percent less likely to be impaired eight years later doing “activities of daily living” such as walking, cooking, dressing and bathing.

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U.S. Heart Disease on the Rise: News Numbers on Americans With Cardiovascular Disease

Apr 30, 2019 11:46AM

An estimated 48 percent of American adults have cardiovascular disease, but about 80 percent of the time the disease can be prevented with precautionary medical care and lifestyle changes.

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Mindfulness May Ease Menopausal Symptoms: Reduces Irritability, Anxiety and Depression

Apr 30, 2019 11:46AM

Women in menopause that are mindful and nonjudgmental of their thoughts are less irritable, anxious and depressed, says the Mayo Clinic.

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Prenatal Yoga Reduces Caesareans and Labor Pain: Helps With Smoother Deliveries

Apr 30, 2019 11:46AM

Mothers-to-be that practiced yoga had fewer C-sections, fewer low-weight newborns, and milder and briefer labor pains.

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Post-Coal Cash: Miners Becoming Beekeepers

Apr 30, 2019 11:46AM

Displaced coal miners in the struggling Appalachians are learning beekeeping under a program funded by lawsuits for violations of the Clean Water Act.

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Poisoned Pastures: Nuclear Testing Linked to Radioactive Milk

Apr 30, 2019 11:46AM

Airborne radiation from nuclear bomb testing in Nevada during the Cold War contaminated pastures throughout the country, leading to 340,000 to 690,000 human deaths from radioactive milk, estimates an economist.

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Hatching a Record: Avian Senior Citizen Astounds Again

Apr 30, 2019 11:46AM

At age 68, Wisdom, a Laysan Albatross in a Hawaiian wildlife refuge, gave birth to at least her 30th chick.

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Bear Blitz: Climate-Challenged Polar Bears Invade Town

Apr 30, 2019 11:46AM

Confronted with melting ice, about 50 polar bears are roaming the streets and eating from the garbage dumps of a remote military town in Russia.

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