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Seven-year-old Girl Being Kept Alive by Viagra (1,363 diggs) A seven-year-old girl with a rare illness is being kept alive by four doses of Viagra a day.

Man tries to amputate own arm (1,497 diggs) Police say a man tried to cut off his own arm at a restaurant in Modesto, Calif., because he thought he had injected air into a vein while shooting cocaine and feared he would die unless he took drastic action.

Doctors manage to halt 7ft 12-year-old from growing bigger (890 diggs) Brenden's runaway growth - caused by a unique genetic condition -has baffled doctors for years and they have frantically tried to find a way of slowing it down. For the last six months Brenden has stopped growing thanks to Gad Kletter, an endocrinologist at Seattle's Swedish Hospital, who treated him with high doses of testosterone.

Preventing Heart Failure: Fish Oil? (560 diggs) Fish oil supplements may work slightly better than a popular cholesterol-reducing drug to help patients with chronic heart failure, according to new research released Sunday. Chronic heart failure is a condition that occurs when the heart becomes enlarged and cannot pump blood efficiently around the body...

Is Sex Addiction Real? (738 diggs) Despite Doubters, Psychologist Says Obsession About Sex Is A Very Real And Self-Destructive Disorder. With a sexual addiction, you become so preoccupied that everything else in your life is put on the backburner, including relationships, family, jobs, and even your health...the need to increase the activity...like an alcoholic

Women Get Massages with 'Happy Endings' Too (1,313 diggs) 'Massage parlours' and even barbers have long offered men sexual stimulation. Now, word is, women are after the extras.

2 hospital ERs placed on lock down (748 diggs) St. Anthony ’s Medical Center in south St. Louis was closed to new patients around 3:30 p.m. after three men walked in with a blue tint to their skin. A hazardous materials team set up decontamination tents in the hospital’s parking lot shortly after the incident was reported to authorities.

Orange County Reacts To New Medical Marijuana Rules (701 diggs) A couple of days after the California Attorney General Jerry Brown issued a new directive on guidelines governing medical marijuana, the county's top law enforcement brass scrambled to figure out what it means to them.

Why Strawberry Jam is More Regulated than Cigarettes ... (1,119 diggs) "While jams and other consumer products are strictly regulated and are required to pass stringent tests before they can be sold, tobacco has no restrictions and manufacturers can, and do, add anything they want into the product." ...

Everyday Culprits of Tooth Decay (814 diggs) I learned that there ’s a lot more than sugar to watch out for. From foods that encourage tooth decay to habits that wear away gums, there’s more to maintaining our smile than a simple brush and floss.

Check Out the Calories of Popular Foods and Restaurants (654 diggs) With over 70,000 foods and 500 restaurants in their database, there's a good chance that if you've eaten it, it's in there. If you're looking for that one healthy item on a restaurant's menu, CalorieLab provides full menu overviews along with more detailed nutritional information for each individual item.

11 Month Old Colombian Baby Weighs 62 Pounds (871 diggs) Colombian doctors are trying to determine why the baby's weight has increased so much in only 11 months.

The Power of Positive Thinking: A Truth or Myth? (572 diggs) Can patients really improve their chances of survival by staying upbeat and happy? Experts say the American public has largely accepted this as fact. But, scientifically speaking, questions remain regarding whether this works, how it would work, and what such a connection would mean for patients who don't get better.

1 in 10 Native American deaths alcohol related (713 diggs) Almost 12 percent of the deaths among Native Americans and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related — more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says.

5 mistakes that will land you in $15,000 of medical debt (1,094 diggs) It took the Trim family of Arlington, Texas, three hours to go $15,000 into debt. One evening last spring, Alex Trim was knocked unconscious when a car hit his bike and he slammed into the windshield. Three hours, many stitches and seven CT scans later, Alex was discharged in pretty good shape.

Reason why breast cancer survivors relapse discovered (607 diggs) The reason why many women with breast cancer see the disease return after apparently successful treatment has been discovered in a breakthrough that could lead to improved treatments. The new insight, which challenges current understanding of cancer, could pave the way to more effective strategies to fight the disease...

Cocaine and Ecstasy deaths up 1,200% since 1993 (882 diggs) Death from 'middle class' drugs glamorised by celebrities are at their highest level since records began, government figures revealed today. Party drugs Ecstasy and cocaine now claim nearly 300 lives a year, an increase of over 1,200 per cent since figures were first recorded in 1993...

Avoiding Dental Perfection With a Slight Twist (496 diggs) Dr. Jeff Golub-Evans, a dentist on the Upper East Side, encourages patients to allow him to slightly rotate a tooth, or to vary the length of teeth. “What I’ve found is that if someone has perfectly symmetrical features and you put perfectly symmetrical teeth on that face, you ruin their face,” he said.

A Black Man, Living in D.C. Dies Younger Than a Man in India (990 diggs) And he certainly doesn't live as long as a white man in his hometown. The reasons — just like the reasons that the Japanese and Swedes live longer than the Ukrainians, and why aborigines in Australia on average die 17 years earlier than non-aborigines — are almost entirely social, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO)..

My Boobs Aren't Squeeze Toys: 8 Tips For More Bedroom Action (1,336 diggs) What is one food that can make a woman ’s sex drive disappear?

Medical Pot Limit Needs To Be Larger, Patients Say (1,021 diggs) What sounds like a lot of marijuana for pleasure isn't enough for medication, more than 100 people at the Wash. state Dept. of Health HQ said Monday. At one time, the agency considered a rule allowing a patient to keep 35 oz of marijuana and 100 square feet of growing space. But Gov. Gregoire pushed for 24 oz, 6 mature plants and 18 immature plants

"How I survived a heart attack at age 43" (620 diggs) When I had my heart attack at 43, all my doctors were really surprised. I was young, I'm not overweight, and I don't eat a lot of fatty foods. In fact, I never eat junk food....

Have Sex 8 Times This Week with a Theme for Each Day (943 diggs) Most of us put sex low on our list of priorities, far below work, sleep, taking care of the kids, and sometimes, we admit, watching the game. And while all of those are important things, so is sex: Getting it on burns calories; reduces your risk of prostate cancer; and releases endorphins, which improves your mood and helps you relax.

Doctors Refuse Fertility Treatment to "Undesirable" Patients (626 diggs) Few insurance companies pick up the tab, so patients themselves decide where to spend their considerable money, and they do this largely based on a clinic ’s success rate. As a result, many doctors try to game the system, producing high “live birth” success rates by cherry-picking patients. Lesbians, the disabled, and older women are often refused.

Is “organic” food really worth the money? (814 diggs) With food prices on the rise, it ’s not so easy to pay more for organic choices. Here’s a breakdown of which organic foods are worth buying and which are not.