Baby Gaga Breast Milk Ice Cream: Healthy or Gross?
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(CBS) Baby Gaga or baby gross?
A London ice cream parlor says it plans to serve up sugary confections made from human breast milk so everyone can experience the "miracle of motherhood," according to Reuters.
Continue »STD testing in seniors: Should taxpayers pay?
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(CBS) If granny gets gonorrhea or gramps gets sick with syphilis, who should foot the bill to test them?
Taxpayers should pay. At least that's what federal health authorities seem to think.
Tommy John surgery: What it is, who's had it
Tommy John surgery is a possibility for St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright, shown here in a game against the Braves on September 9, 2010 in Atlanta.
/ Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images(CBS/AP) Will St. Louis Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright need Tommy John surgery? The team fears he will, but he's getting a second opinion.
SLIDESHOW: Tommy John surgery - who's had it?
Continue »Wonderlic Test gauges brainpower of NFL hopefuls
Wide receiver Kevin Curtis reportedly has highest Wonderlic test score of any current NFL player. Curtis, shown here playing for the Eagles in the NFC championship game on Jan. 18, now plays for the Kansas City Chiefs.
/ Getty Images(CBS) The NFL draft season is around the corner, and teams will be looking at players' height, weight, speed, strength, and throwing ability. But the teams will also be testing players' brainpower.
That's where the Wonderlic Cognitive Abilty test comes in.
Continue »Big Apple smoking ban: Health police run amok?
New York City is banning smoking in parks and other public places.
/ istockphoto(CBS/AP) NEW YORK CITY - Smokers in the Big Apple are fuming, now that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has signed into law a ban on lighting up in city parks, beaches, public plazas and boardwalks. His administration banned smoking in restaurants, bars and other public indoor spaces in 2002.
Continue »Does Brazilian Blowout cause cancer?
Brazilian Blowout, a popular line of hair-smoothing treatments, may contain a potential carcinogen, health authorities say. Here, before and after photos from the company's website.
/ Brazilian Blowout(CBS/AP) - What price beauty?
That's a question curly-haired women are asking in the midst of warnings that popular hair-smoothing products sold under the Brazilian Blowout name contain formaldehyde - a substance the EPA has deemed a potential carcinogen.
Continue »POLL: Your brain & cellphones: Will you change?
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(CBS) By now you have likely heard the news: keeping your mobile phone glued to your head all day may not be so good for the important stuff inside your head - namely your brain.
Or is it?
Continue »Transgender surgery: should your company pay?
Transgender employee Gina Duncan works at Wells Fargo where her sex reassignment surgery was covered by health insurance.
/ AP Photo/Roberto Gonzalez(CBS/AP) SAN FRANCISCO - While millions of Americans are grappling with employer-provided health insurance that covers less and costs more, one surprising group is benefiting as of late - transgendered people.
That's according to an Associated Press report which found that big name companies like Coca-Cola, Campbell Soup and Walt Disney have expanded their insurance coverage to meet the needs of transgender workers.
Continue »Oral sex now main cause of oral cancer
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(CBS) What's the leading cause of oral cancer? Smoking? Heavy drinking?
Actually, it's oral sex.
Continue »Will spider venom be the next Viagra?
Banana spider. Its venom could lead to a treatment for erectile dysfunction, scientists say.
/ wikipedia(CBS) They call it the banana spider, and maybe not just because it's often found on South American fruit plantations.
Some say venom from the big South American arachnid - its legs can span four to five inches - could lead to a new treatment for erectile dysfunction.
Continue »Ovarian cancer symptoms: What you need to know
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(CBS) Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer in women and yet can often go unchecked because symptoms can be subtle and easily confused with other problems.
Here's what you need to know, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Continue »Cell phones affect brain activity, study says
New research links cell phones to increased brain activity near the antenna.
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(CBS) Do cell phones cause cancer? New research doesn't answer that nagging question, but it raises new concerns.
Should fat people be able to sue food industry?
Should fat people be barred from suing fast food chains for their weight problems? Some lawmakers in Minnesota think so.
/ istockphoto(CBS/AP) ST. PAUL, MINN. - Minnesota lawmakers must have a beef with fat people who blame fast food restaurants for their weight problem.
How else to explain the passage of the "cheeseburger bill?" That's what people are calling the bill - just passed by a state House panel - that would block super-sized consumers from suing fast-food chains and other food companies for their weight problems.
Continue »John Travolta bald photo: advice for hairless
John Travolta is pictured during the filming of French director Luc Besson's movie "From Paris with love."
/ LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images)(CBS) Everyone can have a bad hair day. For guys like John Travolta, and your humble author, it's a bad hair life. The 57-year-old was recently snapped sans hair piece while hanging with his family on a Hawaiian beach. E! Online has the photos.
Autism: Can brain wave test speed diagnosis?
Autism may be spotted far sooner than is now possible, if experimental test becomes commercially available.
/ iStockPhoto(CBS) Is help finally on the way for doctors looking for a way to diagnose autism in infants?
Scientists in Boston say they've come up with the beginnings of a noninvasive diagnostic test - one that spots abnormal brain waves that suggest increased risk for the debilitating neurological disorder.
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