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Quiz Gives Your Kitchen a Cleanliness Grade By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Is Your Kitchen as Clean as a Restaurants?

Sept. 2, 2010 — Just how clean is your kitchen? An online quiz rates your hygiene practices with a letter grade — and gives you the information you need to keep your food safe from bacteria.

That’s according to a CDC report in the Sept. 3 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality

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Quiz Gives Your Kitchen a Cleanliness Grade By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Is Your Kitchen as Clean as a Restaurants?

Sept. 2, 2010 — Just how clean is your kitchen? An online quiz rates your hygiene practices with a letter grade — and gives you the information you need to keep your food safe from bacteria.

That’s according to a CDC report in the Sept. 3 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality

Read the rest of this entry »

Quiz Gives Your Kitchen a Cleanliness Grade By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Is Your Kitchen as Clean as a Restaurants?

Sept. 2, 2010 — Just how clean is your kitchen? An online quiz rates your hygiene practices with a letter grade — and gives you the information you need to keep your food safe from bacteria.

That’s according to a CDC report in the Sept. 3 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality

Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Douglas Has Stage IV Throat Cancer; Experts Weigh In By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Michael Douglas and Throat Cancer FAQ

Sept. 1, 2010 — Actor Michael Douglas last night stunned a television audience with the announcement that he has “late stage IV throat cancer.”

What is this disease? How is it treated? Based on what he’s revealed, what do we know about Douglas’s treatment and prognosis?

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Michael Douglas Has Stage IV Throat Cancer; Experts Weigh In By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Michael Douglas and Throat Cancer FAQ

Sept. 1, 2010 — Actor Michael Douglas last night stunned a television audience with the announcement that he has “late stage IV throat cancer.”

What is this disease? How is it treated? Based on what he’s revealed, what do we know about Douglas’s treatment and prognosis?

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Michael Douglas Has Stage IV Throat Cancer; Experts Weigh In By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Michael Douglas and Throat Cancer FAQ

Sept. 1, 2010 — Actor Michael Douglas last night stunned a television audience with the announcement that he has “late stage IV throat cancer.”

What is this disease? How is it treated? Based on what he’s revealed, what do we know about Douglas’s treatment and prognosis?

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Study Shows Marijuana Isn’t a ‘Gateway’ to Other Drugs as Teens Turn Into Adults By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Medical Reference Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Teen Pot Smoking Wont Lead to Other Drugs as Adults

Sept. 2, 2010 — New research finds little support for the hypothesis that marijuana is a “gateway” drug leading to the use of harder drugs in adulthood.

Teens in the study who smoked marijuana were more likely to go on to use harder illicit

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Michael Douglas Has Stage IV Throat Cancer; Experts Weigh In By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Michael Douglas and Throat Cancer FAQ

Sept. 1, 2010 — Actor Michael Douglas last night stunned a television audience with the announcement that he has “late stage IV throat cancer.”

What is this disease? How is it treated? Based on what he’s revealed, what do we know about Douglas’s treatment and prognosis?

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Study Shows Hockey and Football Lead Youth Sports in Number of Concussions By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Sports-Related Concussions on the Rise in Kids

Aug. 30, 2010 — The number of young children treated in hospital ERs for concussions they got while playing on sports teams has doubled in just a decade, a new study shows.

While the concussion rate is higher among high-school-age athletes, researchers

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Study Contradicts Popular Belief That Married Couples Develop Similar Traits as They Age By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Do Spouses Grow Alike as Time Passes?

Aug. 27, 2010 — It just seems so, but it isn’t: Husbands and wives don’t become more alike over time.

That’s according to a study published in the August issue of the Personality and Individual Differences.

Rather

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