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Last week, we announced that Hines Ward may have a 1-year-old daughter, and according to a freshly taken paternity test… he is indeed the FATHER!!

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Check your total cholesterol levels through a blood test. Desirable levels are 200 mg/dL or below. If your levels are 240 mg/dL and above you could be at risk for high cholesterol.

- Passionate fitness trainer certified by NASM, as well as a sports & exercise nutritionist, Justin Janoska. Make sure you check out his website HERE, and follow him on Twitter & Facebook!

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If you find yourself looking pale and feeling weary often, get a blood test and check your iron levels. Your red blood cell and hemoglobin count could be low resulting in Anemia.

- Passionate fitness trainer certified by NASM, as well as a sports & exercise nutritionist, Justin Janoska. Make sure you check out his website HERE, and follow him on Twitter & Facebook!

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Yeesh! Stay away from Yosemite for a while!

This is probably a bummer for those people who have vacation plans!

A recent outbreak of a rodent sourced hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite National Park has led an

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Heart attacks are unpredictable, but that may soon change thanks to a recent study. Scientists have identified certain cells, called circulating endothelial cells (CECs), that are shed from weakened blood vessel walls and eventually clump together to block the flow of blood to the heart.

Dr. Eric Topol, lead author of the study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, studied 50 patients who had a heart attack and found that

Tags: blood test, blood vessel, cecs, cell, heart, heart attack, lives, medicine, patient, research, study

Remember a few months ago when Dodgers star James Loney decided to… allegedly… get all boozed up and act like a complete reckless idiot in his maserati??

Well, it looks like he's off the hook for it.

Because when you put peoples' lives in danger by doing something stupid and unavoidable, the best thing to do have happen is ZERO CONSEQUENCES.

He was picked up after colliding with a Toyota and then wrecking into 2 other vehicles. He even refused a breathalyzer… so he was taken in on suspicion. Can you guess what happened next?

The blood test came back negative!

What the what?!?

So, the City Attorney has decided to drop the DUI case because of lack of evidence.

We be he'll sleep like a baby tonight.

[Image via AP Images.]

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Attention fellas! That test you're about to undergo to check for prostate cancer may NOT be such a good idea after all!

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has determined that testing for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), the most commonly used prostate cancer screen, can actually do more harm than good in healthy men!

The blood test that measures levels of prostate-specific antigen — a protein produced by cells of the prostate gland — may result in impotence, incontinence, and infections.

Despite not being recommended by ANY major medical group, millions of men over the age of 50 receive routine PSA testing.

After analyzing all the previous research on the subject to evaluate whether the screening reduces deaths from prostate cancer, the task force concluded there is little (if any) life-saving benefit.

[Image via AP Images.]

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