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Here are 7 diseases that are getting a helping hand from climate change. Happy Monday!

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“While pregnant with my first child, my great Aunt Myrtle told me that if I wanted to have ‘boy children’ I should douche with Tide… yes, Tide—the laundry detergent.”

When MJ’s (expecting) editorial coordinator Jen Phillips asked readers to share the weirdest pregnancy advice they’d ever gotten, they brought the wood. And the Tide. Read more here: Readers’ Weirdest Pregnancy Advice

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Sitting is killing you. Literally.

"So there’s a deeper bond between men and women than St. Valentine would have suspected, and now we know there’s a better gift for that day than chocolates."

— Excerpt from a Valentine’s Day editorial in Surgery News by Dr. Lazar Greenfield, who was forced to resign as the journal’s editor-in-chief and head of the American College of Surgeons over the column. In it, he “touted the mood-enhancing effects of semen on women during unprotected sex, The New York Times reported… Many women in the medical field were angered by the editorial, saying it reflected a macho culture in surgery.”

How brave are Libyan doctors? That’s a live (i.e., undetonated) rocket-propelled grenade sticking out of the patient’s left thigh.

(Source: liveleak.com)

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Pot Shots: How to Smoke Medical Marijuana.
Portraits of patients in the act of inhaling.

You know how it is: First you get an assignment for Fortune magazine, and the next thing you know, you’re taking pictures of people smoking pot. At least, that’s how it worked for photographer Robyn Twomey.