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Have you guys heard of this new-fangled fad that celebs are waaaaay into??

They're called a caffeine injections!

We'll use Amanda Seyfried and her beau Desmond Harrington (and her dog Finn) as an example here:

So what you do is, you spend the day out and about together, right, and you get suuuper tired. Like, exhausted beyond belief because of all the fun you're having.

Once you hit that point, you grab coffee. Then you drink the coffee.

LOLz!

"Caffeine injections" don't really require injecting anything! Though, we bet someone could find a way. We'd recommend that you don't, though.

Hey Amanda. Ask your new boyfriend to tell us what happens in the Gossip Girl finale! PUH-LEASE?!

[Image via Pacific Coast News.]

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Is this a glimpse of how we'll be taking all of our medications in the future?

Scientists have successfully implanted microchips in seven women with osteoporosis that emitted a dose of a bone-strengthening drug once a day without them even noticing.

The microchip, placed below the waistline, was able to deliver the drug as effectively as their otherwise "daunting" daily injection.

While more research is necessary, the study has been called "an important milestone" in medicine because many women with severe osteoporosis are prescribed a drug called teriparatid to build their bone density, but often quit it because of the tedious and painful injections.

This test involved a microchip that was able to store 20 doses of the drug, but the company behind the technology is setting its sights on testing a chip in 2014 that can hold 365 doses.

Osteoporosis is just the tip of the iceberg too. Other uses in the field of implanted medicine could include a contraceptive rod placed in the arm to release hormones preventing pregnancy AND a chip in the brain that targets the remaining cancer cells after doctors remove a brain tumor.

Pretty cool, right?

[Image via MicroCHIPS, Inc..]

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Can't see the harm in this.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted almost unanimously to reccommend that boys as young as 11-years-old be given an HPV shot.

The controversial treatment that prevents cervical cancer in women would not only protect boys against genital warts and certain kinds of cancers, but potentially curb the spread of HPV to girls.

A recent, unrelated study found

Tags: boys, cdc, centers for disease control and prevention, cervical cancer, girls, hpv, infection, injection, men, politicians, preventative treatment, shot, women