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Owning car, TV linked to heart attacks: study

Owning car, TV linked to heart attacks: study

Car owners with a television are 27 percent more likely to suffer heart attacks than people who have neither, according to a global study on physical exercise and heart disease published Wednesday.

Owning car, TV linked to heart attacks: study
Groups want pollution monitoring near CA freeways
Groups want pollution monitoring near CA freeways
Several groups said Tuesday that an air monitoring plan approved by the Environmental Protection Agency doesn't do enough to address the health concerns of Southern California residents living near congested highways.
South Florida woman receives kidney transplant from stranger after posting ad on Craigslist
South Florida woman receives kidney transplant from stranger after posting ad on Craigslist
A search that began on Craigslist.org has led Selina Hodge to a Miami operating room. Hodge, 28, posted a plea online in July, looking for someone -- anyone -- to donate a kidney.
Infant In Minnesota Develops H1N2, Unique Type Of H1N1
Infant In Minnesota Develops H1N2, Unique Type Of H1N1
Disease specialists are carefully monitoring the case of a Minnesota infant who developed a unique type of H1N1. It’s called the H1N2 virus and it’s only the second case ever detected anywhere.
Microsoft Co-Founder To Build Giant Plane To Launch People, Cargo Into Space
Microsoft Co-Founder To Build Giant Plane To Launch People, Cargo Into Space
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan are building the world’s biggest plane to help launch cargo and astronauts into space, in the latest of several ventures fueled by technology tycoons clamoring to write America’s next chapter ...
Pits add to Stonehenge mystery
Pits add to Stonehenge mystery
Researchers say they've found two pits to the east and west of Stonehenge that may have played a role in an ancient midsummer ceremony. The discovery suggests that the 5,000-year-old circle of stones we see today may represent just a few of the pieces in a ...
Declassified Memo Hinted of 1941 Hawaii Attack
Declassified Memo Hinted of 1941 Hawaii Attack
Three days before the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt was warned in a memo from naval intelligence that Tokyo's military and spy network was focused on Hawaii, a new and eerie reminder of FDR's failure to act on a basket lo...
What's killing America? U.S. ranks 28th in life expectancy (lower than Chile and Greece) while it pays the MOST for health care
What's killing America? U.S. ranks 28th in life expectancy (lower than Chile and Greece) while it pays the MOST for health care
A new survey on health care is revealing that you may not be getting what you pay for if you check into a U.S. hospital.
Owning car, TV linked to heart attacks: study
Owning car, TV linked to heart attacks: study
Car owners with a television are 27 percent more likely to suffer heart attacks than people who have neither, according to a global study on physical exercise and heart disease published Wednesday.

Doctor claims he can turn brown eyes blue (but he can't change them back again)

Doctor claims he can turn brown eyes blue (but he can't change them back again)

Ever wished you were the blue-eyed boy? You soon could be, after a doctor revealed he can permanently change a person...

Doctor claims he can turn brown eyes blue (but he can't change them back again)

iRobot becomes a reality as man gets smartphone built into his artificial arm

iRobot becomes a reality as man gets smartphone built into his artificial arm

iRobot has become a reality after a British man became the world's first person to have a smartphone dock built into ...

iRobot becomes a reality as man gets smartphone built into his artificial arm

NASA evacuates astronauts from deep-sea training

NASA evacuates astronauts from deep-sea training

NASA evacuated a crew of astronauts Wednesday from an underwater lab off the coast of Florida where they were trainin...

NASA evacuates astronauts from deep-sea training

MIT Develops New Radar Technology: Military Could See Through Walls

Lincoln Laboratory researchers Gregory Charvat and John Peabody, foreground, stand before the solid concrete wall through which they successfully detected and captured human movement.

Looking through walls is no longer something we read about in comic books or watch in Superman movies. The Massachuse...

MIT Develops New Radar Technology: Military Could See Through Walls

Richard Branson opens world's first 'spaceport' in US

Richard Branson opens world's first 'spaceport' in US

British billionaire Richard Branson opened the world's first-ever commercial spaceport in the New Mexico desert, the ...

Richard Branson opens world's first 'spaceport' in US

Brace for impact: Scientists warn ANOTHER out-of-control three ton telescope is hurtling towards the Earth at high speed

Brace for impact: Scientists warn ANOTHER out-of-control three ton telescope is hurtling towards the Earth at high speed

Earth has been told to brace for a possible satellite collision as an orbiting telescope weighing nearly three tons h...

Brace for impact: Scientists warn ANOTHER out-of-control three ton telescope is hurtling towards the Earth at high speed

France to impose fat tax on sugary drinks such as Coca-Cola and Fanta

Obesity: Government's are now tackling excessive weight gain in their populations and are targeting sugary drinks. France is bringing in measures to ration mayonnaise and tomato ketchup in schools

France is to impose a 'fat tax' on sugary soft drinks in a bid to combat soaring child obesity.

France to impose fat tax on sugary drinks such as Coca-Cola and Fanta

Human Stem Cells Created Using Cloning Technique

Human Stem Cells Created Using Cloning Technique

Researchers said Wednesday they used a cloning technique to create human embryos that were close genetic copies of th...

Human Stem Cells Created Using Cloning Technique

Europe Plots Mission to the Sun

An artist's impression of what Europe's sun probe will look like.

Europe's collective space agency is planning an ambitious space mission that would send a satellite nearly three-quar...

Europe Plots Mission to the Sun

Obama under fire over space plans

US President Barack Obama speaks with Astronaut Mark Kelly at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida in April 2011.

High-profile critics fear President Barack Obama's commercial overhaul of human spaceflight is going nowhere and coul...

Obama under fire over space plans

Hairy, crazy ants invade from Texas to Miss.

Hairy, crazy ants invade from Texas to Miss.

It sounds like a horror movie: Biting ants invade by the millions. A camper's metal walls bulge from the pressure of ...

Hairy, crazy ants invade from Texas to Miss.

Santa Monica Mountain's Lions Face Extinction

Santa Monica Mountain's Lions Face Extinction

Morning commuters in Los Angeles were likely startled, if not downright terrified, when a young mountain lion recentl...

Santa Monica Mountain's Lions Face Extinction
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