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Dr. House is Pro-Life? Just Ask The Vatican.
It was unbelievable enough that House, M.D. has become the world's most watched television program, but even more astonishing is the news that the Earth's most beloved show espouses pro-life values according to the Catholic Church. Television's greatest misanthrope is pro-life! At least according to the analysis done by the... (read the rest)
The University of Oprah
Has anyone in the country--in the world--got an educational platform as large as Oprah's? Her power is enormous. She banks on the understanding that what women know determines how society rolls. A continuation of that concept is that the better educated women are, the better off society is. Unfortunately, education... (read the rest)
Baby Einstein? Well, Maybe Not So Much.
We already knew that too much television watching was not good for the health of adults and teens and even young children, leading to a more sedentary lifestyle. Plus, it turns many of our brains into gelatin--how else could millions of Americans watch American Idol and The Bachelor? But how... (read the rest)
Turn Off That TV or You are Going to Be Depressed.
It turns out that the amount of television that your teenager watches during his or her youth may be a determinant of whether they develop depression later in life, a recent study has found. According a report in the Los Angeles Times, researchers from Pitt and Harvard found that for... (read the rest)
Once a Fast Food Junkie, Always a Fast Food Junkie
New child and adolescent heath research suggests that once the fast food industry has you hooked you on commercials for you to "run for the border", you are all the more likely to continue those behaviors into adulthood, says the Washington Post. Interestingly enough, however, it's not the actual consumption... (read the rest)
Sick--and Tired--of the Same TV, Americans Want WebMD Equivalent on Daytime Television
>According to the New York Times, Americans are turning to daytime television, in addition to the Internet, to get health information they can use--from none other than the former ABC drama star of Bachelor fame, Travis Stark. At least he actually IS a doctor, and doesn't just play one on... (read the rest)
The Brothers Emanuel
So, this isn't news (it originally aired June 16th this year)--but who wouldn't want to watch Ezekiel Emanuel, Chair of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the NIH, duke it out with his two brothers, Rahm--soon to be Chief-of-Staff for the Obama administration--and Ari, on whom the... (read the rest)
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