Health Care By Text: In Rwanda, Texting Saves Pregnant Women
photo: Thinkstock When it comes to pregnancy and childbirth, women in the developed world are notorious for hopping in a car and zipping to the hospital at the first signs of labor, but in in the...
View ArticleCan Brushing Your Teeth Prevent Heart Disease?
photo: Thinkstock We used to think of brushing our teeth just as a matter of hygiene, but now it’s proved to be a serious health issue. Most of us brush our teeth every morning, evening, and maybe...
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Possible Breast Cancer Vaccine Discovered: A scientist at Cleveland Clinic has found a vaccine that prevents breast cancer in mice. If all goes well in human testing, the vaccine could be available in...
View ArticleHeart Attacks: More Likely to Be Fatal In Certain Areas
photo: Thinkstock Whether or not you survive a cardiac event could depend on where you are. Neighborhoods whose residents are poorer, less educated, and have more black residents yield higher death...
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Abused Moms More Likely to Have Obese Children:Â Kids of women who reported chronic abuse by a partner were more likely to be obese by the age of 5 than children from violence-free environments,...
View ArticleWomen's Rights or Population Control?
photo: Thinkstock “Women’s rights are the way to approach the population issue,” reads the title of an interview recently published on Grist. But we found some mixed messages in the interview with...
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Get 25% off EBOOST Pink Lemonade and Fight Breast Cancer: For every box of EBOOST Pink Lemonade sold, EBOOST will donate $10 to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. Plus, Blisstree readers get 25%...
View ArticleCan I Interest You In a Tiny Beer? â Flashback Friday
Hate wasting an entire beer when you just want a taste? Wish there were a tiny, woman-size beer out there? Well, the 1970s has a solution. Introducing the Michelob “Mich VII” beer. Seven ounces is the...
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The U.S. Army vs. STDs: We want YOUâ¦not to get syphilis or gonorrhea. Check out Mother Jones‘ Gallery of the military’s decades-long war against STDs, in public service posters. Post from: BlissTree...
View ArticleLiving In Fear: What's Your Phobia?
photo: Thinkstock Boo! Sorry, we didn’t mean to scare you. More phobias exist than we could possibly list in this post â and more than 19 million American adults have them. Usually, our fears are...
View ArticleBest Buy Discovers That Women Like Electronics, Too
photo from Flickr user tshein Best Buy’s executives have been scratching their heads for decades, wondering why women don’t shop at their stores. But they haven’t actually done anything about it until...
View ArticleBridal Diapers? Do NOT Say: "I Do"
For his sake, we're hoping she doesn't need a diaper. Photo: Thinkstock We’ve heard of brides enlisting a bridesmaid or two (or four) to help her use the bathroom when she’s all decked out on her big...
View ArticleReally Nude Models! (Bare Bones Pin-Up Calendar)
Pin-up calendars are usually something we shy away from, unless it’s 12 months of hot, fresh pies. But this one got our attention. Japanese manufacturer Eizo compiled a promotional calendar of models...
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Early Menopause Increases Heart Disease Risk: Women who go through menopause before the age of 46 may have more than twice the risk of developing heart disease than women who don’t not experience early...
View ArticleRomantic Music and Dating: Could the Right Soundtrack Make You Fall In Love?
photo: Thinkstock Sometimes we feel like every song we hear is about love â especially when we’re not doing so hot in that area. Taylor Swift may have more of an effect on you than you’d like, too. A...
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U.S. in Last Place for Healthcare: Even though Americans spend twice as much on healthcare as people in other developed countries, the care they get is lower quality and less efficient than in other...
View ArticleJob Productivity: 8 Ways to Bring Creativity to Work
photo: Thinkstock Let’s say you work in a finance job and sit in a grey cubicle all day crunching numbers and have a high productivity rate. Do you go home and think about numbers? Do you daydream...
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SEX, SEX, SEX! And also a nice book giveaway from Random House. But the only way to enter is to take our (anonymous) sex poll and then re-tweet it or leave a comment under the post or on our Facebook...
View ArticleFace Your Skin: Daily Health Quiz
Ready to get schooled about your health? Our Daily Health Quiz will test your know-how. Answer our question, below, and check back tomorrow for the answer and your next pop quiz. photo: Thinkstock...
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More Childless Women in Their 40s: Almost one in five American women in her 40s has no children, up from one in ten women in the 1970s. (via The Washington Post) Post from: BlissTree (Source:...
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