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Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women in America � so it�s important to take care of your ticker.  �There are natural ways to protect your heart, like taking hawthorn berry� The Medicine Hunter, Chris Kilham, said. �There are almost certainly a couple hundred different species of hawthorn trees,� Kilham said. �And it's the leaves and the flowers and the berries that are used to enhance heart health.� Kilham said there is an enormous body of science on hawthorn, which looks like fat, red peppercorns. �We know that it strengthens the heart; it makes the contractions of the heart more even,� he said.  �It really enhances the amount of blood that comes out of the aorta. And it also reduces the sort of skittishness of the heart. If you get a fear or a shock it will keep the heart beat more regular and steady. So this is real medicine.�  Hawthorn is extensively used in Europe and the U.S. for strengthening the heart muscle, improving nerve function to the heart, making hea...

Recently, there's an online movement to get her to attempt what could be her biggest feat yet: going bald to fight cancer. A Face book page titled �Beautiful and Bald Barbie Let�s see if you can get it made �was started before Christmas .By Wednesday afternoon, the page had more than 16,000 fans. The ambition is to get toy maker Mattel Inc. to produce a bald Barbie in support of children with cancer. Friends Rebecca Sypin and Jane Bingham, who live on opposite coasts but have both been affected by the disease cancer, hatched the idea to use Barbie for the movement because she's such a admired children's toy. Bingham has lost her hair due to chemotherapy treatments to treat lymphoma. Sypin's 12-year-old daughter, Kin Inich, also lost her hair this year in her own battle with leukemia disease. Mattel didn't return calls on Wednesday seeking comment, but the women said they have contacted the company through some common form letters. In return, they said, they've r...

When they grow up, a set of infant twins in South Dakota will be able to tell people they were born in different years. Kylee Anthony was born a minute before midnight on New Year's Evening, and brother John Jr. was born three minutes into 2012.. Parents John Sr. and Jolene Anthony set claim to having the last baby of 2011 as well as the first baby of 2012 in Rapid City. "We could go buy a lottery ticket right now," John Anthony said. John, 29, a car salesman, and Jolene, 26, a store assistant manager, were married almost three years ago. Each has elder children, and they had been hoping to have children together. Ultrasounds showed they were having twins, but with a due date of Jan. 20 and a scheduled induction planned for Jan. 9, the couple never expected the babies to arrive with such New Year's fanfare. Kylee was born at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, 21 inches long and weighing 6 pounds, 2 ounces. John Jr. was born at 12:03 a.m. Sunday, measuring 19 inches and weighing 5 p...

Paul Davies and Robert Wagner of Arizona State University have recommended a crowd-sourcing effort to find artificial structures on the moon. After all, lunar missions like NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter are returning some stunning, high-resolution imagery of the moon's surface. If aliens have been there, possibly we could spot evidence of their presence. "Although there is only a tiny probability that alien technology would have left traces on the moon in the form of an artifact or surface modification of lunar features, this location has the virtue of being close, and of preserving traces for an immense duration," Davies and Wagner say in their article published in the journal Acta Astronautical .         Indeed, due to the moon's pristine atmosphere, any modification of lunar surface features will remain preserved for eons -- the lack of an atmosphere means features are not eroded away. Unless intelligent aliens came, saw and then covered their...

Hairier skin could also be the key to avoiding being bitten by bed bugs, claim Sheffield academics. Hungry bugs placed on shaved arms were more likely to try to feed compared with those on unshaved arms, the journal Biology Letters reported. Researchers say the hair slows down the bed bugs and warns the victim. Pest controllers say the UK is now experiencing a steep rise in the variety of bed bug infestations. Prof Michael Siva-Jothy, from Sheffield University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, recruited 29 brave volunteers to check the theory further, watching the bedbugs as they found a place to feed and removing them only as they were about to bite. He found that more layers of both longer visible hairs and finer, "vellus" hairs close to  the surface appeared to work as a deterrent to the insects, with the finer hairs also acting as an early warning system. Prof Siva-Jothy said: "Our findings show that more body hairs mean better detection of parasites - t...

Everyone aspires to have a lively and lovely home. This stands pretty much true especially when they purchase their dream home or create one for that matter. Every home looks unique based on its decorations and thus decorations play a significant role in the development of one�s home.  Having a well decorated and well maintained home leads to admiration and in turns boosts up your social stigma in your neighborhood. Everyone aspires to have a tidy and colorful home that looks elegant, beautiful, classy and lively. And on this note modernization has helped us a lot. It has given us more choices and varieties to choose from and one can be quite certain that his/her home will suit their desires and look unique and lively. Wall decals and wall stickers have revolutionized the look of our homes on this note. They are the latest trend in the market and every modern home as some piece of art in the form of wall stickers displayed on their walls. Unlike traditional colors used for painti...

Standardized tests are taken all over the United States America. Federal and state governments, as well as school districts use them in order to estimate students and see what sections of the curriculum need development. Illinois calculates a state average, and for eight years now, Mattoon High School has been below state standard in the math portion of those tests. "Our students don�t comprehend the entire math taught throughout the curriculum. Every subject on the ACT is covered in algebra II and geometry," said MHS calculus teacher Ryan Ghere. The MHS mathematics division is adding to their curriculum this year in order to improve those math test scores. Ghere said, "We are doing cumulative tests, more Calculus calculator work, having weekly meetings to discuss, and allowing students to re take tests and quizzes. "I have learned most of the things in high school and feel like I will be ready for college", said Blanchette She said,"I have a complicated t...