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Facebook now lets you update your organ donor status

Through organ donation, you can make a difference even when you're not with us anymore. Facebook has now made it possible to update your page with your organ donor status and be added to your state's official organ donation registry. By building this feature in, Facebook is doing something to ...

• 1:32 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Medicine takes a cue from retail with more customer focus

Entrepreneurs are leading medicine down a new path that will see doctors connecting with customers much like a retailer would. Massage Envy chain founder John Leonesio is at it again, according to The Arizona Republic. The serial entrepreneur wasn't happy with just taking massage from a snooty, snobby thing and ...

• 3:13 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Quitting smoking? Here's one alternative

Smokers who haven't been able to kick the habit just yet can still save big money on their cigarettes. There's a new, lower cost option that's springing up all over the country.

• 12:00 a.m. Thursday, April 19, 2012

Early prostate cancer diagnosis affords time to weigh treatment options

With the news of Warren Buffett's prostate cancer announcement, I want to take the opportunity to give you an update on my prostate cancer and how I'm handling it. Prostate cancer is likely the second most-diagnosed cancer after skin cancer. Catching it early means that you'll often have no decrease ...

• 1:03 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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3-D printer used to make prosthetic jaw

Several weeks ago, Clark mentioned the topic of 3-D printers on the show. Now he's read a story in The New York Times that fleshes out ways in which small businesses will use 3-D printers and the idea of mass customization to make products readily available at cheap prices. As ...

• 1:31 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

No health insurance? Try a daily deal site

People are turning to daily deal sites for select medical procedures in the absence of health care coverage. I've talked in the past about how dentists are offering deals and becoming more negotiable in an effort to build traffic. Too many people are neglecting dental care when they don't have ...

• 1:17 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012

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Maximize your brain power with these 5 changes

Aging does not have to mean that your brain functioning deteriorates as the years roll on. Clark shares the 5 keys to maintaining optimal brain function as you get older.

• 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012
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Keys to optimal brain functioning as you age

The advancing of the years does not have to mean lower brain function, according to some of the new cutting edge research into neurobiology. Though I usually talk about your fiscal health, I was absolutely fascinated by a story I read in The Washington Post about mental health as we ...

• 1:51 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011

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Is that head cold really all in your head?

Do you have a head cold... or is it all in your head? New research could make you rethink the role that cold remedies play in getting you better.

• 12:00 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011

New study questions mind-body connection

How much can you will yourself to be well? A new study done at the University of Wisconsin suggests that some head colds may be just in your head. Researchers gave those with the common cold either: Nothing; a sugar pill; or Echinacea, a popular natural medicine supposed to boost ...

• 2:13 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, 2011