Lisa Rinna isn’t done talking about her face. The 46-year-old star, who has admitted to Botox, Juvederm fillers, lip-plumping and breast implants, argued on Tuesday that she hasn’t overdone it in the Botox department. See Lisa and other stars flaunt their bikini bods In a self-portrait posted on Twitter, Rinna, sans makeup, raises her eyebrows to show the naturally-occurring wrinkles on her forehead. “Ok for all of you who say I’ve had too much BT [Botox] this is for you!” the photo caption reads. Read More…

Sarah Palin has raised questions over her staunch criticism of state health care after the former Alaska governor admitted her own family used to “zoom” over the border to get treated in Canada’s hospitals. By Tom Leonard in New York The former Republican vice presidential candidate has been a frequent critic of big government and has lambasted Barack Obama’s health care reforms as ushering in socialised medicine, denouncing his plans as “downright evil”. But during a weekend speech in Calgary, she revealed that her family used medical care in Whitehorse,...

***UPDATED BELOW*** If Democrats didn’t have all the incentive they needed to pass health care reform already, then conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh may have provided the final push they needed by vowing to flee the country if the reform bill is passed. Responding to a caller who asked him where he would go for health care if Congress enacts reform, Limbaugh replied, Read More…

EDMONTON – Negotiations for a new contract between Alberta’s nurses and their employer are off to a rocky start. The nurses union says in a release that the opening proposal from Alberta Health Services asks for cuts in salaries, benefits, safe-care provisions and scheduling protections. Heather Smith, president of the United Nurses of Alberta, says many of the rollbacks would erode standards of care, safety in the workplace and job security. Smith says the union is looking for more resources to fix a strained health-care system, and is seeking wage increases of four per cent. The...

Matthew Herper Americans spend billions on foods and supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids. Not all of it is money well spent. Fifty years ago, two Danish epidemiologists pondered why Greenland’s native Inuit could have a very low rate of heart attacks despite eating a high-fat diet full of whale and seal meat. They cobbled together $6,000, flew to Greenland and collected blood samples from 130 Inuit. The Greenlanders’ cholesterol numbers were good but not enough to explain the healthy hearts. Read More…

Rebecca Ruiz Stealing a few eating tips from abroad may keep you healthy into a ripe old age. Is the American diet really so bad that it’s time to look to other countries for help? That’s the premise behind a spate of recent books and Web sites touting plant-heavy diets of various far-away places. Looking at traditional diets has become something of a fad in recent years. Numerous books, including The Jungle Effect and The China Study, have tried to document the link between diet and great health in various countries and regions. Read More…

A premature baby born weighing less than nine ounces has survived in Germany – the lightest ever baby boy to live. The tiny tot, weighing in at just 8.8oz, or 275 grams, recorded the lowest weight for a living birth of a newborn boy, according to doctors at the University of Goettingen Hospital. He survived thanks to the latest developments in postnatal care. In most cases, doctors said, it was regarded as impossible for a child with a birth weight below 350 grams to survive. Read More…

A car crash in Florida is being blamed on the fact that the driver was attempting to shave her bikini line at the wheel. Trooper Gary Dunick says the 37-year-old woman was attempting to shave her pubic hair, while her ex-husband held the wheel. Her car then crashed into the back of a pickup truck, injuring two women, reports the Key West Citizen. “She said she was meeting her boyfriend in Key West and wanted to be ready for the visit,” Trooper Dunick said. Read More…

(Reuters) – About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday. Black women had the highest rate of infection at 48 percent and women were nearly twice likely as men to be infected, according to an analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 21 percent of women were infected with genital herpes, compared to only 11.5 percent of men, while 39 percent of blacks were infected compared to about 12 percent for whites, the CDC...

African-Americans and Hispanics are 10 times more likely to report having sex about every night than Asians, who seem to get the best sleep, according to a new poll by the National Sleep Foundation. The poll, which included telephone interviews with more than 1,000 Americans, who identified themselves as Black, White, Asian or Hispanic, is said to be the first to compare snoozing between these four ethnic groups. But research on sleep in general had suggested there might be differences. “There’s enough research out there to suggest there may be ethnic differences in sleep disorders,...