Perhaps you’ve read that the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and
the American Heart Association (AHA) issued new guidelines on which
persons should take statin drugs for the prevention of heart disease
and stroke. On March 19, 2014, in the New England Journal of Medicine,
the AHA presented these guidelines, including age, gender, and race, as
well as various pre-existing health conditions that might call for
statin intervention. But what do the new guidelines mean for you?
I’ve always been a fan of safety devices, especially for women travelling. Cuff is a stylish safety notification device that is GPS enabled so you can alert your family and friends
to your location when you are walking or traveling alone. It comes as a bracelet, pendant or Cufflinks
(Cufflincs), and competes with a wave of fashionable GPS enabled devices that are hitting the market in 2014.
This is story about a man who created—and wore—a fake, bleeding uterus made out of a bladder and goat’s blood. This is also a story about an inventor breaking profound taboos to revolutionize the lives of women. Either way, how a school dropout in India came to invent a cheaper way to make sanitary pads is a tale at once weird and inspiring, as chronicled in a recent BBC article.
Whether you get hot flashes from menopause, nervousness, embarrassment,
exercise, medication, or stress, or you just tend to sweat a lot, don’t
sweat it any more. A new product called Exert Smart Body Coolant® addresses all of that just by spraying it on your body once daily in the morning. Then, you’re good to go.