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Sports Q&A: Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White

LAS VEGAS -- Dana White was upset and wanted to make something clear. Last Friday night, as White attempted to lounge inside his office building where cable network FX films live fights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship's reality show, "The Ultimate...

Tags: Mixed Martial Arts, Satellite and Cable Service, Entertainment, Chuck Liddell, Cinco de Mayo

'Hemingway & Gellhorn': Love is a battlefield in the HBO movie

Most writers can only daydream about meeting — in the flesh — the characters they've imagined. But for Ernest Hemingway, one afternoon in Key West, Fla., it came close to actually happening. One day when the writer was in his mid-30s,...

Tags: Cancer, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Ernest Hemingway, Barbara Stanwyck

Want to lower breast cancer risk? Lose a little weight

For postmenopausal women who are obese, breast cancer is more likely. That's because fat tissue seems to behave essentially as an organ of the endocrine system, pumping out the hormone estrogen. And estrogen is a driver of many common breast cancers....

Tags: Cancer, Weight Loss, Health, Hormones and Metabolism, Medical Research

Her new relationship shares snag that doomed marriage

Tags: Viagra (drug), Facebook, Rentals

Fitness factions: Blending men's and women's health advice

I'm one of those women who likes reading men's health and fitness magazines. Though they all promise bodies and sex lives that most of us will never have, I'm drawn to the funny, self-deprecating tone, the functional workout tips and the emphasis on...

Tags: Soccer, Sports, Women's Health, Health, Men's Health

McNamee: Clemens asked me to give steroid shot

WASHINGTON -- A key prosecution witness in Roger Clemens's perjury trial said Monday he started giving the former baseball star “bootie shots” of anabolic steroids at his request during the 1998 season. Brian McNamee, a former personal...

Tags: Prosecution, Entertainment, Roger Clemens, U.S. House of Representatives, Baseball

Hereditary AngioEdema: What is it? Who has it?

Today, May 16, 2012, is the first National Hereditary AngioEdema (HAE) Day designed to bring attention to a disease that affects more than 1 in 10,000 people and that usually strikes in childhood or adolescence. HAE is a genetic disorder that's...

Tags: Lab Tests, Health, Genetic Condition, Epinephrine, Human Body

Ways to improve sperm health

Tags: Heart Healthy Diet, Steroids, Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Vitamin C

How Many Concussions Are Enough?

The Hartford Courant

We know there is more than enough courage around to sustain the NFL. We know there is more than enough testosterone, painkillers and, if need be, performance-enhancing drugs to keep the game running through Super Bowl MD … with or without the...

Tags: Bill Belichick, Genes and Chromosomes, Entertainment, Health, Lung Cancer

Konerko just goes about his business

Signs of respect are spotted easily. For instance, Red Sox rookie Felix Doubront was working carefully to Adam Dunn in the first inning Thursday night at frosty U.S. Cellular Field. He had him in a 1-2 count but then repeatedly missed trying to pound him...

Tags: Jason Varitek, Boston Red Sox, Adam Dunn, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics

Secrets of the Service

We have learned a secret of the Secret Service: At least a few of those tight-lipped tough guys are not quite as straight-laced and serious as they appear to be. In fact, they apparently love to party like frat boys. Three Secret Service agents have...

Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Secret Service, Bill Clinton, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Colombia

Why is sex at 30 so awesome?

I had heard from older friends that sex for women gets better in their late-20s and 30s, but I never really believed it until I hit 30. Holy crap, it's true! My sex drive is way more intense and I have more orgasms more easily than ever before. Not that I...