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Celebrities and Addiction: Amy Winehouse Joins The “27 Club”

Posted on 25 July 2011. Tags: 27 club, addiction, alcohol abuse, amy winehouse, celebrities, celebrities drug addiction, Charlie Sheen, disease, drug addiciton, illness, janis joplin, jimi hendrix, kurt cobain, lindsay lohan, overdose, rehab, rehab celebrities, shiah lebouf, Whitney Houston, winehouse dead

Stars Use Addiction To Cope With Fame They tried to make her go to rehab and she said no, no, no! News sites everywhere blew up early Saturday morning with news that many people have been expecting for years. Singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London apartment at the age of 27 years [...]

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AskDrO: Black Women STILL Being Infected Disproportionately With HIV

Posted on 01 December 2010. Tags: affection, AIDS, America, ask Dr. O, askdro, AskDrO.com, behavior, black, blog, body, change, condoms, D.owens, depression, development, discovery, disease, disorder, doctor, Dr. O, dwight, fathers, gay, health, healthy, HIV, homosexual, human, immunodeficiency, infection, issues, MD, medicate, medication, men, mental, officials, physician, pill, population, protect, relations, relationships, research, revolution, risk, science, sex, sexual, STDs, technology, Truvada, virus, women

It’s unavoidable…HIV/AIDS is prevalent in the United States, especially in the gay population. More than one million Americans are living with this virus; one in five people don’t know it. There are public service announcements (PSA), radio segments, TV programs, erected nonprofit organizations, all designed to help reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS. Now, another ally [...]

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Lose Weight On Twinkies….HE Did…

Posted on 17 November 2010. Tags: abuse, America, anxiety, ask Dr. O, askdro, AskDrO.com, behavior, black, blog, BMI, body mass index, burn, caloric intake, calorie, cardiovascular, cereal, change, compulsive, consume, D.owens, depression, diet, disease, Dr. Mark Haub, Dr. O, dwight, exercise, experiment, failure, heart, Hostess, human, illness, kidney, Little Debbie, loss, MD, men, mental, nutrition, Nutty Bars, obsessive, Oreos, owens, problems, results, science, success, sugar, sugary, theory, Twinkies, University of Kansas, weight

This is purely insane…but apparently it worked. A man loses 27 pounds on a sugary diet primarily of Twinkies, powdered donuts and Nutty Bars. Dr. Mark Haub of Kansas State University, in an effort to prove that caloric intake is the most important factor in weight loss, tested his scientific theory by using a very [...]

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Pee In Your Phone To Get An STD Test? There’s An App For That…

Posted on 15 November 2010. Tags: advancement, application, ask Dr. O, askdro, Blackberry, blog, Britain, cell phone, change, chip, clinic, computer, D.owens, disease, Dr. Tariq Sadiq, electronic devices, illness, interesting, iPhone, London, medical, Medicine, mobile, phone, public service announcement, revolutionary, science, sickness, STD, technology, Treo, UK, United Kingdom, urinate

Need STD results??? Just urinate in your phone…AskDrO! It seems as if going to the clinic to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases is “so last year”. In an attempt to develop one of the most forward and advanced applications ever in a phone, officials in UK are actually working on a computer chip that [...]

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