How would you like to be on the road to a better body in just a week?  Actress and author Marilu Henner says it’s possible.  

Click on the picture below to hear about her “Booty Camp Blitz!”
 

Dutch scientists are developing a blood test that would detect when a woman will go through menopause.

The test would help women make decisions about their lifestyle, such as the age she should have children. The test measures levels of a single hormone called AMH that decreases when a women becomes less fertile.

Women: Do you want to know when you will go through menopause? Would you take such a test?

 When an Ohio woman looked at an ultrasound she expected to see a developing fetus.Instead, she saw what she believes to be an image of Jesus Christ, MyFox Cleveland reported on its Web site.

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Staying healthy and happy is a struggle for about half of Americans, according to a massive survey that attempts to measure the nation’s general welfare, much like the Dow Jones Industrial Average portrays the health of the stock market.

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, based on interviews of more than 100,000 people so far, shows that 47 percent of Americans are struggling and 4 percent are suffering. Forty-nine percent of respondents are reported to be thriving based on a personal assessment of how they feel about their lives at the time of the survey, and where they think they’ll be in five years.

Are you happy and/or healthy?

A man hoping to donate his kidney to his fiancee, a woman with several medical conditions including renal failure, is being thwarted in his attempts to do so by hospitals unwilling to perform the operations and Medicaid’s refusal to pay for the surgery at an out-of-state hospital.

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The parents of a 3-month-old from Central Florida are publicizing a pharmacy error that resulted in them giving an overdose of medicine to their daughter who was ill with a sinus infection.

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 She isn’t problematically picky. She doesn’t have a fear of commitment.

She doesn’t have any major issues or baggage.

So what’s “wrong” with the single, successful, empowered female? Society wants to know. Sometimes, she wants to know herself.

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No one wants his pet to go through a painful experience.  Now they don’t have to.  There’s a fairly new procedure being performed across the country that cuts down on pain during spay surgery.  It’s a minimally invasive spay surgery that is done with a laproscope. 

We were in the operating room during one of these procedures.  Click below to see how it works. 

Jeremiah Johnson, 25, of Colorado, has filed a complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union after he was terminated from the Peace Corps because of his HIV-positive status, reports the Washington Post.

“The Peace Corps does not have a policy of automatically excluding people with HIV,” wrote Amanda H. Beck, the agency’s press director. “The Peace Corps conducts individualized medical examinations of volunteers and applicants who are HIV-positive.”

The letter continues by pointing out that the State Department, in February, had lifted a ban that prevented HIV-positive individuals from becoming Foreign Service officers.

Prior to the change, all HIV-positive applicants were automatically excluded from performing Foreign Service. However, it permitted people who were already employed and became infected with the virus after being hired to remain employed.

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No one wants to get old.  But, let’s face it, we have to.  And what you eat has a powerful effect on how you age. 
Click below for a video on the top 5 age defying foods.