Word: aspirins
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...remedy a cold, Juliette Bonk recommends aspirin and a new pair of jeans. That's what brings the 24-year-old to the H&M flagship store in Paris on her way home from work one recent evening. Around her, a group of teenage girls trolls for emergency club gear; three Russian tourists buy lingerie; and a shopper misplaces her Louis Vuitton handbag. A gruff female voice breaks through the pop sound track to discourage standing in line for the fitting rooms: "You have 30 days to change your mind and return purchases...
...name for the wireless networks of sensors, called motes, that Pister, 39, is building. Each mote has a chip about the size of a grain of rice that detects and records things like temperature and motion at its location. Attach it to a battery the size of an aspirin, and a mote will keep doing this for longer than a year; add a power source the size of a bottle cap, and your mote is good for a decade. Most important, the motes have minuscule radio transmitters that talk to other motes (or to a base station connected...
...inflammation is much easier to measure than insulin resistance; all that is required is a single blood test. (Abnormal glucose levels only suggest the possibility of insulin resistance; they don't prove it. Insulin resistance is difficult to measure directly.) It might also mean that anti-inflammatory agents like aspirin may be particularly effective in diabetics...
...contraceptive research and programs at Johns Hopkins University’s Bayview medical center, told the Associated Press that “It meets all the criteria that would ordinarily have to be met by any other over- the-counter drugs. You could probably argue this is safer than aspirin...
...perspective accompanying the new studies, Dr. Thomas Imperiale, a gastroenterologist at Indiana University School of Medicine, takes pains to remind readers that aspirin alone is not a substitute for regular colonoscopy screenings, which enable doctors to locate and snip off growths before they become cancerous. It is also worth remembering that there are other ways to prevent colon cancer, including reducing the saturated fats in your diet and increasing your intake of folate-rich leafy green vegetables. You should probably also limit your consumption of red meat, processed meats and refined carbohydrates. And if you smoke, you should definitely quit...