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Some common medical ailments are so embarrassing that a person won't talk about them with a close friend, a spouse--or even a doctor. Some embarrassing medical problems and their cures are dicsussed, including bad breath, flatulence and hair loss

These margarines are designed specifically to act like drugs by reducing the absorption of cholesterol from the gut into the blood, thereby helping people concerned with high cholesterol achieve healthy cholesterol levels. Although the FDA does not allow manufacturers to make such claims, these spreads may also help reduce heart disease. For soup lovers, there is a line of prepared soups fortified with ginseng and St. John's wort to increase brain power and ward off depression. And let's not forget all the new soy-based products which contain large amounts of plant estrogens known as isoflavones. (Researchers say these are responsible for reducing prostate, breast and colon cancer.) Soy also possesses cholesterol-lowering properties that help reduce the risk of heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases

Urine therapy, perhaps the most alternative of all alternative medicine and the ultimate of all self-help therapies, has been used as a folk remedy and as part of religious rituals for thousands of years in India, Tibet, Asia and Africa. Long before the arrival of Crest and other popular dentifrices, Pierre Fauchard, considered to be the founder of modern dentistry, recommended in his 1728 text, "The Surgeon Dentist," that toothaches be treated at home by rinsing the mouth every morning and evening withspoonfuls of urine. By the 18th century, many German and French physicians regularly used urine to treat gout, asthma and sciatica. Today, in many parts of the world, cuts and abrasions, jellyfish stings, and animal bites are washed out with the person's own urine. In Cuba, where the U.S. blockade has made medicine hard to come by, urine is often used by the poor as a rub-on moisturizer and drunk daily as a form of self- vaccination against disease and infection

Far-fetched as this may seem, our antibiotics are fast becoming useless in fighting even the most-common infections. Just think what this means to you: Without effective antibiotics to battle those 50,000th-inch-long single-cell organisms, common scrapes, urinary- tract infections and sore throats will often lead to serious long- term complications and possibly death. Vaccines that are being developed are our only promising therapy. In a nutshell, antibiotic resistance means that bacteria, the tricky, fast-reproducing microorganisms, have found ways to resist our most-powerful drugs. This should not come as a surprise. Within four years after the widespread introduction of penicillin in 1943, bacteria began appearing that could resist it. And the more widely antibiotics are prescribed around the world, the easier it is for germs to find ways to mutate and become resistant to medication. And to spread. This has left us with dozens ofineffective, worthless - but expensive - drugs

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It was three years ago at the Roslin Institute in Scotland that [DOLLY], a Finn Dorset sheep, became the first large mammal to be from genetic material..

It is important for people to stay active and get plenty of exercise. However, one must not push oneself too hard. There is a significant difference between "good" and "bad" pain

Thanks to scientific research with heroin and cocaine addiction, a new concept of alcoholism treatment is evolving

Little known fact: About 1 million Americans suffer from gout - yes, gout, that old-fashioned-sounding illness with symptoms that are sudden,..