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Proof: Weight Loss Surgery Can Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

by T Goodman

Two studies released this week reported that weight loss surgery has helped persons with Type 2 diabetes throw away their injection needles and medicine bottles! Patients in these two studies truly experienced remarkable, some would say miraculous, results.

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Toilet Brush Designed with Input from 200 Housewives Rates a Royal Flush

by Steve Levenstein

The “Brand New Toilet Brush” from Marna is designed to eliminate everything you hate about toilet brushes and improve upon every possible function. If it were a hand in a high stakes poker game, this new standard in toilet brushes would be a royal flush.

Ten Terrific Chinese Drinks You MUST Try!

by China.new

If you've been turned of by The Top Ten Weird and Bizarre Chinese Soft Drinks, prepare to turn the other cheek and turn your taste buds back on again! China is a land of contrasts, and for every bizarre drink there's a delicious canned or bottled taste treat just waiting for you to crack open. Sit back, open wide and enjoy!

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Fill Your Energy Up with the IV Drip Bag USB LED Light

by Steve Levenstein

Want to add some “House” to your home? The IV Drip Bag USB LED Light from JTT Online Shop plugs into your laptop, PC or a standard wall outlet, filling your personal space with soft, diffused light as you nurse that important report towards completion.

Scientists Discover Regenerative Cell Process That May Reverse Liver Disease

by T Goodman

There is a much greater demand for liver transplants than there are available livers. But a liver transplant may not be the only way to save a patient on the waiting list in the future. Now, there is hope that a new technology might help the body enhance the production of healthy cells, so that the liver could literally repair itself.

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Researchers Document Success Of Amatadine For Head Injury Patients

by T Goodman

Severe head injuries of the kind induced by motorcycle accidents, rough sports, falls, and blows to the head visit about 1.7 million Americans every year. Very difficult to treat, these occurrences often result in permanent brain damage, vegetative, or semi-vegetative states. Some doctors have been using an old flu medicine called amatadine to treat head injury patients and have reported success with the drug, but an international, inter-disciplinary team was recently the first to test the drug against a placebo.

Higher Heart Disease & Cancer Risks Posed By Sleeping Pill Use

by T Goodman

When you see the data that researchers from Scripps Sleep Center have gathered connecting the use of sleeping pills with serious disease and early death, it will surely be enough to keep you awake....

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Unhappy Meals: China's Top 8 Fake Foods

by China.new

China's 1.3 billion people are hungry for wealth and riches. Too often, however, making a buck means taking a buck by foisting imitation nutrition on the unwary. These top 8 Chinese fake foods and drinks may leave a bad taste in your mouth but consider yourself lucky you're just reading, not eating.

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Toxic Glue Puts Chinese Migrant Workers in Sticky Situation

by China.new

If you thought toxic glue was a “first world problem” whose only victims were women engaged to marry George Costanza, think again. A major scandal brewing in China's southern city of Guangzhou has shone the spotlight on a vast, unlicensed leather-goods trade that exposes tens of thousands of migrant worker employees to high levels of dangerous chemicals.

China's First Homegrown Anti-Cancer Drug to be Handed out Free of Charge

by China.new

A working group of Chinese associations has agreed that Conmana, China's first independently developed small molecule-targeted anti-cancer drug, will be distributed to those needing it free of charge. It's about the last thing you'd expect to hear in today's big business friendly, entrepreneurial China but in this case at least, profits are taking a back seat to national pride.

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