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What Happens When PIP Breast Implants Break or Leak?

Helen Zachary — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:21:14 +0000

What Happens When PIP Breast Implants Break or Leak? Does the current ‘global’ scare over French breast implants affect you? Yes, it does affect you, if you are one of 300,000 to 400,000 women in any of the 65 countries whose surgeon used a silicone implant made by the French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP). And yes, the issue does affect you if are one of almost 300,000 American women or 1.5 million women worldwide who have had a breast augmentation in 2010, or among the countless more who have had this procedure between 2005 and 2010.

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Celebrities With Lupus: Seal, Nick Cannon, Toni Braxton, Lady Gaga

Helen Zachary — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:14:20 +0000

Celebrities With Lupus: Seal, Nick Cannon, Toni Braxton, Lady Gaga. Today in celebrity health, we bring you Lady Gaga and her "borderline positive" lupus. Gaga revealed to King that she tested "borderline positive" for lupus , the connective-tissue disease. A few weeks ago, she had told the Times of London that despite occasional "heart palpitations and ... things," she was perfectly fine.

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Does Vitamin Water Prevent Flu?

Helen Zachary — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:09:05 +0000

Does Vitamin Water Prevent Flu? Don't you just hate it when companies like Coca-Cola make unproven health benefits about their products? There's no question to me as a consumer that the above "Flu Shots Are So Last Year" advert for Coca-Cola's Vitamin Water is blatantly stating that Vitamin Water can replace flu shots. People who drink Vitamin Water don't need no flu shots? What a big bag of B.S.! We are glad the National Consumer League has filed a complaint against this nonsense of a claim to the Federal Trade Commission.

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Celebrities With Testicular Cancer

Helen Zachary — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:07:07 +0000

Celebrities With Testicular Cancer. Probably the most famous and the most vocal celebrity diagnosed with testicular cancer is champion cyclist Lance Armstrong. He appears to have successfully fought off his cancerous cells even though, as we noted in an earlier post, his cancer spread to his lungs and brain. Armstrong is quite active in spreading the word about testicular cancer and, we think, is able to provide hope to those who are confronting the same problem he faces.

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