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MANILA, Philippines - A video posted on YouTube showing
Philippine doctors laughing while removing an object from a patient may lead to
charges against the surgeons and cost them their medical licenses, officials
said Wednesday.

The unauthorized nearly 3-minute
video of a noisy operating room shows doctors and nurses laughing, giggling and
cheering.

At one point, a hand appears with
a cell phone camera taking a close-up picture of the surgery

For the more common forms of arthritis and joint pain (including degenerative
arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, tendonitis and bursitis) there is no
clear connection to diet. Efforts to remove certain types of food or add others
in an effort to treat arthritis have met with inconclusive or disappointing
results. Recent research has identified an association between low vitamin D
intake and degenerative arthritis, but it is not known whether it is helpful to
take extra vitamin D to prevent or treat degenerative joint disease. In the
absence of a particular vitamin deficiency, no clear benefit from supplemental
vitamins or nutrients has been established. Weight reduction may help to prevent
or treat gout or degenerative arthritis, though clear evidence of benefit is
lacking.

The brown bat sleeps for nearly 20 hours each day. Humans
function best on a comparatively thrifty seven to nine, but more and more people
are having trouble getting even that. The National Sleep Foundation recently
found that just 25 percent of Americans get at least eight hours of rest on
weekdays and that 60 percent of women say they often sleep poorly.

"Insomnia is a bona fide health problem," says Rubin
Naiman, clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona's
Program in Integrative Medicine and sleep director at the Miraval Resort in
Tucson. "Skimping on sleep has a price, including weight gain, diminished immune
responses, lack of concentration, irritability, and depression."

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Sun Blocker

SOD also
protects you from the sun’s ultraviolet rays. When the sun hits
your skin it creates free radicals that cause inflammation and destroys cells
and tissue. SOD protects you up to 800 times more that ordinary sun
blocking cream. This allows you to go without using a sun blocking
cream and encourages your body to produce the most needed body vitamin – vitamin
D. Blocking the sun’s damaging effects reduces your chances of
creating sunburn, premature wrinkles, and at worst skin cancer.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A 16-foot python
stalked a family dog for days before swallowing the pet whole in front of
horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said Wednesday.

Science is powerful, but it cannot explain everything.

Because
turkey and other types of poultry walk around a lot, their leg meat is darker
compared to their breast meat. And thanks to an increased myoglobin level, dark meat contains greater amounts of iron,
zinc,
riboflavin, and thiamin.  

Stretching — long promoted as a way to prevent injury, to reduce soreness and
to speed post-exercise
recovery — may not fulfill its promise. Over the years, scientists have found
that stretching before or after a workout has little effect on either risk of
injury or what is commonly known as delayed onset of muscle soreness, the
discomfort that comes a day or more after challenging physical activity.

All children ages 6 months to 18 years in this country should receive an influenza
shot every year, a federal advisory panel said on Wednesday.

Like most 5-year-old boys, Connor Luke Schick gets very
shy when he finds himself sitting in a television studio surrounded by people he
doesn’t know and cameras and bright lights. But if you start a sentence by
saying, “Never run with …” in a flash he fills in the blank: “... with sharp
objects.”

The diet book called “Skinny Bitch'’ has been flying off bookstore shelves,
buoyed by the modeling pedigree of its authors and a frank “stop eating crap”
message that distinguishes it from traditional diet books.

But this week, Salon magazine is taking “Skinny Bitch” to task, claiming
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