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A Mysterious Link Between Sleeplessness and Heart Disease (344 diggs) People who sleep less are at higher risk of developing a significant sign of heart trouble, researchers report.

A Conversation With The Guy Who Grows The Government's Weed (752 diggs) A Conversation With Mahmoud A. Elsohly about his one-of-a-kind job growing marijuana with government money.

The Boy Who Was Knocked Down By A Car, But Wouldn't Die (592 diggs) It was the week before Christmas and 14-year-old Alby Dobinson was crossing a busy road on his way home after the last day of term when he was hit by a car. Alby ’s parents were told he might not survive, but a year on he has made an extraordinary recovery. Here, his family tell their story.

'Sex chip' being developed by scientists (880 diggs) Scientists are developing an electronic "sex chip" that can be implanted into the brain to stimulate pleasure.

Malaria bed nets' usefulness is their downfall (453 diggs) BED nets intended to slow the spread of malaria are not always being put to best use: some Kenyans are using them to fish.

Medical Marijuana Will Be Legal By 2021 (1,120 diggs) i believe the timeline is a little off. my feelings are change will happen within the next 6 years. everyone knows someone who is disabled or has a chronic illness. excellent article none the less. well written.

Being Mean Has a Bigger Impact Than Being Nice (752 diggs) "The one receiving the slight cannot imagine that the slighter lacks that appreciation," he said. "And so it goes, because of such differential perception, they respond more and more strongly. Small slights could escalate to unbelievable, irrational feuds."

Google was my doctor: Says Scott Adams, Dilbert Creator (643 diggs) .."about six months after I'd first lost my voice, I woke up wondering if my speech problem might be related in some way to my hand problem. So I typed “voice dystonia” into Google and up popped a link to a video of a person speaking in a damaged voice..I started using Google alerts to tell me whenever someone mentioned Dilbert, me, or anything

Marijuana More Potent Than Ever (931 diggs) The potency of marijuana, measured by the presence of its psychoactive ingredient, THC, has tripled since 1987, according to the latest figures from the Department of Justice's National Drug Intelligence Center.

Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer (391 diggs) More than a third of all Americans —some 120 million people—will be diagnosed with cancer sometime in their lives. Their illness may be invisible now, but it's out there. And that presents a great, and largely unexamined, opportunity: Find and treat their cancers early and that 566,000 figure will shrink.

Killed By a Condom... (2,478 diggs) A really funny Guy!! How a person can insert his p***s in an empty cans of laughing gas!!

New skin cell technique sufferers... muscle-wasting disease (354 diggs) Scientists have successfully created nerve cells from skin cells in a breakthrough that offers hope for those with a fatal muscle-wasting disease.The transformation opens the way for treatments for spinal muscular atrophy, an inherited disease for which there is no cure.

Making Hospitals Greener — and Patients Healthier (326 diggs) Many hospitals are built with materials, like particleboard, PVC flooring and even conventional paint, that can leach poisonous substances. What's more, the chemicals used to clean hospitals — chlorine, laundry detergents and softeners, ammonia — contain toxic ingredients and can cause respiratory disease.

Medicaid Applicants Grow As Recession Widens (407 diggs) Program for health care targets the poor, and now there are a lot more of them in the USA

In Pictures: Some Very Toxic Toys (536 diggs) Before you put these under the tree, take a look at what's inside: lead, arsenic, mercury.

Vitamin supplements don't fight cancer, studies show (488 diggs) A series of trials also shows that taking vitamins and minerals has no effect on preventing strokes, heart disease or other ailments. In some cases, they can even cause harm.

The Science of The Hangover (675 diggs) The world is usually not a happy place when you awake after a big night ...Hangovers increase depression, anxiety and irritability. Scientists are still unsure exactly how alcohol exerts its mind-bending affects, but believe that it is a combination of sleep deprivation, a lack of serotonin, and an alcohol-induced drop in blood sugar.

If Marijuana was legal (3,104 diggs) Perfect ad placement

Boy Survives Near Decapitation (1,108 diggs) A 9-year-old Hillsboro boy will walk out of the hospital Friday, and the feat is being called a medical miracle. Three months ago Jordan was in a car wreck that nearly took his head off. "There was no connection between the bones of the neck and the head," explained Cook Children's Dr. Richard Roberts.

Video Games May Do the Aging Brain Good (483 diggs) Older adults might want to take an interest in their grandchildren's' video games, if early research on the brain benefits of gaming is correct. In a study of 40 adults in their 60s and 70s, researchers found that those who learned to play a strategy-heavy video game improved their scores on a number of tests of cognitive function.

Victory (1,460 diggs) Racing barefooted after kicking off her flip-flops, Cyndie pushes her son Derek, 10, up and down hallways in the hospital to distract him from the painful medical treatments for his neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer. More background info in comments.

Post-traumatic stress disorder runs in family (310 diggs) Earthquakes have aftershocks — not just the geological kind but the mental kind as well. Just like veterans of war, earthquake survivors can experience post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety.

The Facts And Myths Of Low Sperm Count (422 diggs) Asylum breaks down what's fact and fiction when it comes to sperm count.

Dying Wish Of 4-Year-Old Girl (1,627 diggs) A Lancaster County girl suffering from a rare, incurable brain tumor Wants Cards For Christmas.

Doctors fear a Wii knee epidemic (387 diggs) Playing too much tennis or golf on the computer could be bad for your health, doctors said yesterday as they predicted a rise in the number of "Wii injuries" over Christmas.