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| Coffee buzz: Study finds java drinkers live longer Wed, 16 May 2012 23:30:56 GMT MILWAUKEE (AP) -- One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter.... |
| Antibiotic linked with rare but deadly heart risk Thu, 17 May 2012 03:12:19 GMT CHICAGO (AP) -- An antibiotic widely used for bronchitis and other common infections seems to increase chances for sudden deadly heart problems, a rare but surprising risk found in a 14-year study.... |
| Study links vets to brain disease seen in athletes Wed, 16 May 2012 20:52:20 GMT WASHINGTON (AP) -- A small study raises more concern about the long-term consequences of brain injuries suffered by thousands of soldiers - suggesting they may be at risk of developing the same degenerative brain disease as some retired football players.... |
| More doctors are ditching the old prescription pad Thu, 17 May 2012 07:50:48 GMT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Doctors increasingly are ditching the prescription pad: More than a third of the nation's prescriptions now are electronic, according to the latest count.... |
| Healthy eating can cost less, study finds Wed, 16 May 2012 19:19:52 GMT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is it really more expensive to eat healthy?... |
| Study: US clears drugs faster than Europe, Canada Wed, 16 May 2012 21:39:35 GMT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Researchers say the U.S. approved more new medicines in less time than Europe and Canada in the last decade, challenging long-standing criticisms that the Food and Drug Administration lags behind its peers in clearing important new drugs.... |
| US lowers cutoff for lead poisoning in young kids Wed, 16 May 2012 20:20:22 GMT ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time in 20 years, U.S. health officials have lowered the threshold for lead poisoning in young children.... |
| Scientists hunt ways to stall Alzheimer's earlier Wed, 16 May 2012 11:23:20 GMT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer's disease - by testing possible therapies in people who don't yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed.... |
| Flesh-eating germ rare, especially for the healthy Mon, 14 May 2012 21:58:16 GMT ATLANTA (AP) -- Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her leg in a river two weeks ago. One of her legs was amputated and her fingers will be too, her father says, because of the spreading infection.... |
| French trial opens in diabetes-diet drug scandal Mon, 14 May 2012 21:04:07 GMT NANTERRE, France (AP) -- Lawyers for a French pharmaceutical group suspected in the deaths of at least 500 people argued Monday that a trial against their client should be halted as two separate cases should be rolled into one before the court can proceed.... |
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.