Month: February 2015

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Water Pills Good or Bad? Effective or Dangerous for Weight Loss?

Are water pills good or bad? Water pills or diuretics are both good AND bad! They are good if you use them in the manner they are intended to be used. Water pills are bad if you use them to lose weight because they are never intended to be a diet pill you can pop to your mouth and magically transform you into a svelte Nicole Kidman.

So when is the use of water pills or diuretics advisable? You have to consult your doctor regarding this matter but, in general, they are used to treat high blood pressure, glaucoma, edema, congestive heart failure (CHF), and some kinds of kidney and liver disease.

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Nightmare Bacteria: 8 Important Things You Should Know About CRE Superbug

Nightmare Bacteria: 8 Important Things You Should Know About CRE Superbug. What should you do if there’s a superbug out there which is antibiotic resistant and which kills 50% of people it infects? Well, the first thing we should do is learn more about the superbug which is why we are posting this list of 8 Things You Should Know About the Nightmare Bacteria (aka CRE Superbug):

1. It Is Deadly. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the nightmare bacteria “kill up to half of patients who get bloodstream infections from them”.

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Laser Tattoo Removal Cost: How Much Price to Pay to Erase Tattoo?

Laser Tattoo Removal Cost: How Much Price to Pay to Erase Tattoo? How much money will you have to pay if you want to get your unwanted “no longer cool” tattoos erased? Apparently, what you will spend to get your tattoos removed through laser surgery is going to be more than what you spent for the tattoo itself.

Bama Inked, which covers tattoo culture in Alabama, visited three establishments which conduct tattoo removals by laser and found out that you will spend an average of $55 to have a square inch of tattoo removed.

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Tattoo Removal Cream, Laser Eraser, and Alec Falkenham’s Invention

Tattoo Removal Cream, Laser Eraser, and Alec Falkenham’s Invention. The biggest good news today in the world of tattooing is that a 27-year-old dude from Canada named Alec Falkenham has developed a cream that easily painlessly gets rid of those damn tattoos you had when you were dating randy Andy.

The bad news?

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Should You Trust Your Doctors Prescription?

Should You Trust Your Doctors Prescription? John Oliver of Last Week Tonight does a great job on explaining (and criticizing) the links of doctors who prescribe your medicine to big pharmaceutical companies.

Want to know whether your doctor has received anything from big pharma?

Go check out the Open Payments website, a database maintained by the federal government (thanks, Obama) which could clue you in on any “gifts” received by your physician.

Watch John Oliver:

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Health Supplements Review: GNC Herbal Plus, Target Up&Up, Walmart Spring Valley

Do the health supplements you buy really contain the ingredients they are advertised to contain? Maybe not! A health supplements review by the office of New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has revealed that several supplements do not contain the plant species identified on the label. For this reason, the attorney general issued cease and desist letters to four stores selling these products — GNC, Target, Walgreens and Walmart.

According to the NY Attorney General, the products in question are as follows:

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