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A lumbar puncture or spinal tap may be performed for a number of reasons including diagnostic, investigative or therapeutic. It is an extremely technique-sensitive procedure that involves careful insertion of...

Long-term, sustainable weight loss is best approached gradually: starvation diets may yield fast results, but without continued lifestyle changes, there is simply no way the weight will stay off. A...

Are you currently considering trying One A Day Weight Smart Advanced weight loss pills, which contain green tea, cayenne, and guarana?  First off, some general reminders about over-the-counter weight loss...

It's all too easy to get totally lost in a sea of diet pill advertisements, not knowing which supplements are reputable and have a fighting chance of actually helping you...

It has been popular for a while to have a perfect body image, which often includes very thin model-like bodies. This trend has been followed by many people, but unfortunately...

For some odd reason, relationships in which the female partner is significantly older than the male partner continue to raise more eyebrows than relationships in which the male partner is...

In Germany there is a home brewed beer that is flavored not with hops but with a very similar herb, marijuana. I'm sure this isn't legal under some European Union regulation...

Codeine addiction is tragic and unnecessary. Doctors often think of codeine in its various forms (such as Tylenol with codeine, Nurofen Plus, which is codeine plus ibuprofen, co-codaprin, which is...

One of the other writers for this site used to be a chemist specializing in herbal medicines. He tells me that he was approached by a chemist in Austria about 25...

A fetish is a non-sexual, sometimes inanimate object that triggers intense sensations of sexual desire. Feet are a common fetish, but there are people who get turned on by shoes...