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‘Viagra condoms’ to help men with erection problems during sex

May 11, 2011
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  Boost: ‘Viagra condoms’ will help men with erection problems during sex (posed by model)Men who struggle with erectile problems when they use contraception may have a breakthrough with new ‘Viagra condoms’. Designers found that large numbers of men complained that they struggled to maintain erections when using conventional condoms in sex. Manufacturers lined...
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Having sex and blowing your nose linked to aneurysm

May 6, 2011
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  Having sex, blowing your nose and drinking coffee can temporarily raise the risk of rupturing a brain aneurysm and suffering a stroke, a new study has found. Dutch researchers have identified eight main triggers that increase the risk of aneurysm – a weakness in the wall of a brain blood vessel that often...
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Don’t drink, it’s carcinogenic: report

May 1, 2011
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Forget safe drinking levels, any amount of alcohol could give you cancer, the Cancer Council says. Forget safe drinking levels – any amount of alcohol could give you cancer. Alcoholic drinks and ethanol are carcinogenic to humans and there’s no evidence there’s a safe consumption threshold to avoid cancer, the Cancer Council says in...
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Men make it longer

April 21, 2011
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annabelle sheldon lifestylechannels You don’t have to go under the knife to get longer organs. Men who want to increase the length of their sex organ do not have to go under the knife for results. A study done in Britain has shown that some non-surgical methods for increasing the length of the male...
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Boy, 10, the youngest Australian to have sex change

April 19, 2011
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Jamie has lived like a girl for two years, now a court says he can have sex-change therapy. A COURT has allowed a 10-year-old boy to become the youngest Australian to have sex-change therapy. The boy, known as Jamie, has lived as a girl for two years, dressing in feminine clothes, using the girls’...
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Are secret U.S. army tests to blame for TV presenters speaking utter gibberish?

April 5, 2011
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By TOM LEONARD   The video footage is some of the oddest you will ever see — a string of American and Canadian TV presenters dissolving on-air  into unintelligible gobbledygook, their distress obvious as they try but fail to stop themselves blurting out a train of disconnected words, before the producers cut to something else....
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Scientists discover one of ‘world’s oldest brains’ belonging to Iron Age man in ritual killing

March 29, 2011
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Archaeologists believe they have discovered one of the world’s oldest brains that once belonged to a man in Iron Age Britain who was sacrificed in a ritual killing. Scientists found the cranium in a muddy pit when they were excavating a site before a new campus was to be built at the University of...
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Tiny hairs from ancient sea creatures ‘could repair damaged muscles’

March 18, 2011
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Tiny hairs from a 500 million year old sea species could repair damaged muscle, according to new research. British scientists say plant-like creatures known as tunicates have amazing regeneration properties. Researchers claim microscopic hairs on the creatures are made of a compound which could act as building blocks for working human muscle tissue. Heal...
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Stillborn baby survives after doctors ‘froze’ her

March 3, 2011
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A baby girl who was born dead after a traumatic birth has amazingly survived after her doctors froze her for three days. Baby Ella Anderson was born nine months ago in a British hospital. During her birth, her mother’s placenta ruptured and the baby bled to death in the womb. She was revived by...
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Man had knife in brain for four years

February 17, 2011
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The blade is placed over the top of the X-ray of Li Fu’s skull. (Astral Press) A Chinese man stabbed during a robbery in 2006 was shocked to discover he still had a 10cm blade still lodged in his brain. Li Fu, 37, went to the doctor to complain about a persistent headache, completely...
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