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[PHOTOS] FDA Releases Graphic Warnings for Cigarette Label

WARNING: Cigarettes are addictive.
The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have unveiled the new cigarette warning labels on Tuesday, its first in more than 25 years. The new labels are required to be on all cigarette packs, cartons and advertisement by no later than September 2012.
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Landis receives botox treatment from Dr. Alizadeh at the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group at the Americana Manhasset luxury shopping destination in Manhasset

Botox or Dysport, which one reigns as the best anti-wrinkle injection?

A study paid for by the makers of anti-wrinkle injection Dysport found that it is better at reducing crow's feet than its popular competitor, Botox. On Monday, the makers of Dysport announced a study comparing two different kinds of botulinum toxins. The double-blind study was funded by Dysport and published in Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.
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Smoking Linked to Higher Risk of Aggressive Prostate Cancer

There is more bad news for smokers. Smokers will not only have higher risk of getting a lung cancer but they are more likely to have severe tumors and higher chance of death when they get prostate cancer compared to non-smokers according to new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and University of California, San Francisco.
Astronaut Mark Kelly

Mark Kelly Hanging Up The Spacesuit For Good

Mark Kelly is going to retire from NASA and focus on writing a memoir with his wife, Gabrielle Giffords, who was nearly killed in a well publicized homicide attempt earlier this year.
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Goodbye Voyager! The spacecraft is all set to leave our solar system

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is about to leave the sun's territory to enter the inter-stellar space. NASA's twin spacecrafts Voyager 1 and Cassini reached edge of the solar system sooner than expected which means the boundary of solar system is smaller than what scientists had earlier speculated. Voyager 1's exit is expected to give astrophysicists new data accounts of life outside the solar system.
FDA releases new labels you are about to see on cigarette packs

FDA new labels you are about to see on your cigarette packs

The nine graphic health warnings that will appear on every pack of cigarettes sold in the U.S and in every cigarette advertisement beginning in September 2012 were released by HHS Secretary Sebelius and FDA Commissioner Hamburg on Tuesday.
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8 Percent of U.S. Children Suffer from Food Allergies

A new study published in the journal Pediatrics found that 8 percent of U.S. children age 18 or under are affected by food allergies. That equates to 5.9 million children, according to a study by Dr. Ruchi Gupta of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
Saturn moons may hold potential life: Cassini NASA Helene close encounter

Saturn moons may hold potential life: Cassini NASA Helene close encounter

As NASA's Cassini project relayed images back after snapping photos of several of Saturn's 60 known moons. The images revealed lakes and rivers filled with liquid methane on Titan, Rhea with an atmosphere full of oxygen, and an ocean-like surface under a thick hydrocarbon atmosphere. The signs of water molecules and oxygen has given much speculation about life form existing on Saturn moons.
A weight loss specialist, Dr. Gautam Gupta 57, is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). FBI has started a national and international effort to locate him.

FBI Search for Fraud Weight Loss Doctor

A weight loss specialist, Dr. Gautam Gupta 57, is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). FBI has started a national and international effort to find him.
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Monster black hole swallows star, tears it apart

Scientists first became intrigued on March 28 by a long-lasting flash of high-energy gamma ray radiation burst from 3.8 billion light-years away. Now, they think they’ve determined the source of it, namely a star swallowed and shredded by a monster black hole.
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Canceled NASA Mars project paves way to Green Earth

A canceled NASA Mars project is the base for today’s Bloom Box, a device that can take the chemical energy contained within molecules and convert it directly into electricity through a chemical reaction.

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