People genetically prone to higher levels of HDL, often called “good cholesterol,” showed that they did not have any significant decrease in risk of cardiovascular disease.

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HDL ‘Good Cholesterol’ Found Not to Cut Heart Risk

Reported fraud in the UK broke the £2bn barrier in 2011 but this is dwarfed by the levels under the radar, an accountancy group says.

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Fraud levels ‘increased in 2011′

In a New York Times op-ed today, M.I.T’s Frank Moss imagines a high-tech health care future, where health care literally becomes part of our everyday life. “Inconspicuous wireless sensors worn on your body and placed in your home would continuously monitor your vital signs,” Moss speculates. “Wristbands would measure your levels of arousal, attention and anxiety.” Read full article > >

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The future of health care today

When it comes to housework, my wife and I divvy up the chores according to our levels of competence. This means she does most of the work. It is not that I am lazy so much as that I just don’t care about the quality of the results as much as she does. For example, after I have made the bed it tends to have a lumpy topology, like a cruller. This is partially caused by my inattention to standard smoothing protocols, but also because of objects inadvertently left underneath, such as underpants or rawhide bones. My wife hates this sort of thing, so she assigns bed-making to herself. Read full article > >

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Gene Weingarten: Wife Sciences 101

The higher levels may suggest a leak from the reactor’s fuel rods or even a breach in the pressure vessel that houses the rods, nuclear regulators said.

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Higher Radiation Levels Found at Japanese Reactor

Previous studies have proven that women are deemed sexier at their peak stage of fertility-lap dancers get better tips; men rate a woman’s body odor as more attractive and respond to it with higher levels of testosterone. But a new study conducted at…

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Committed Men Not Swayed by Woman’s Fertility

For the first time in 50 years, your drinking water may change. Due to an increase in fluorosis, a condition that causes spotting and streaking on the teeth of children, the federal government is recommending altering the levels of fluoride in U.S….

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Gov’t Calls for Less Fluoride in Water

Nairobi, Kenya: With higher levels of economic growth than expected, Kenya’s banks have already begun giving successful loans to a specific and special group of women. Many of these women have struggled through poverty with only one option available to them as they raise their children alone without assistance. Known in Kenya as sex-workers – prostitutes – they work selling the only thing they have available to sell – their own bodies. read more

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Sex-Workers Get Second Chance at Life With Microloans in Kenya

The Irish government has consistently said it does not see the need for a bailout from Europe, but speculation that one will be necessary has driven bond yields to ever-higher levels.

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Under Pressure Over Bailout, Dublin Defends Its Finances