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More women die of heart disease than all forms of cancer put together. Unfortunately, heart disease is often silent, hidden, and misunderstood. Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the U.S.

To shed some light on the subject, and with a bit of humor, Elizabeth Banks directs and stars in the short film, Just a Little Heart Attack.

View the video: Just a Little Heart Attack

Super Bowl Sunday is not only a big day for football, but a big day for sharing your favorite foods with family and friends. If you plan to enjoy the New England Patriots take on the New York Giants with a Super Bowl food fest, there are a few things about food safety you might want to keep in mind.

Read it: Score a Food Touchdown on Super Bowl Sunday

Do emotions and math go together?

“Emotions = Life.” That’s how Chip Conley begins his latest book, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success.

Read the article and watch the book trailer: Emotions + Math = Insight

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced it is committing $750 million to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

Read it: Gates Foundation Pledges $750 Million to Global Fund (infographic)

The number of people living with diabetes may rise from 366 million in 2011 to 552 million by 2030. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) says that’s about ten million new cases per year around the world. The IDF also estimates that as many as 183 million people don’t even know they have diabetes. Other shocking figures reveal:

* The US has the highest number of people with diabetes, followed by Mexico, Canada, and Haiti.

* The US has one of the highest number of deaths due to diabetes of any country in the world.

Read it: 5 New Year’s Resolutions to Help Prevent Diabetes

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Hold the bacon, hold the sausage. Researchers in Sweden suggest that eating an extra 50g of processed meat each day — that’s a couple of slices of bacon or a link of sausage — could increase your risk of pancreatic cancer by 19 percent.

Read it: Bacon, Processed Meat Linked to Pancreatic Cancer

Barbie is known for her long, flowing hair that can be styled again and again. But what if Barbie was bald? And what if she was bald due to cancer treatment?

There’s an online movement to encourage Mattel to create a “Cancer Barbie,” and it’s gaining supporters who see it as a good way to help children cope with cancer.

Read it: What if Barbie had Cancer?

For many social media lovers this is going to fall under the category of “too much information.”

Are you ready to step on your bathroom scales and have your weight automatically uploaded to the internet? If you’re so inclined, the wireless scale will make it easy to Facebook, tweet, and shout your progress, or lack thereof, to the world. The scale monitors weight and body fat information each time you step on the scale and can keep track of multiple users.

Fitbit introduced the Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale to the world at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012, and it’s all about motivation. For some people, that kind of motivation might be just what they need. If it takes a village to achieve your weight goals, this is one way to go.

Read it: Ready to Tweet and Facebook your Weight?

Did you know there’s such a thing as blood shortage season? The beginning of a new year means that donations are low and blood centers need your help.

January was declared National Blood Donor Month back in 1970 for a perfect storm of reasons. People have full schedules through the holidays, the weather takes a turn for the worse in January, and cold and flu season make many potential donors ineligible, if only for a short time. But even though donations are down, the need for blood is not.

Read it and see the video: It’s Blood Shortage Season

Would you like to win $3,000? Easter Seals, supported by Google SketchUp, is hosting its second annual Sketch-A-Space contest to draw attention to the employment needs of people with autism.

Easter Seals is calling on you to use the free Google SketchUp 3D modeling software to design a space that represents your dream job, career interests, or plans for future employment.

The competition offers people with autism, those interested in learning more about autism, or those who have someone in their lives with autism an opportunity to celebrate the unique contributions people with autism make to our nation’s workforce.

Read it: Easter Seals and Google Team Up for Autism Awareness

Wonder Woman’s breasts are a real attention-getter, that’s for sure. That’s one way to promote breast cancer awareness. Throw in Catwoman, She-Hulk, and Storm, and you’re bound to get people talking.

That’s the intention of a breast cancer awareness campaign launched in Mozambique. If these powerful heroines take breast cancer seriously, you should, too.

See the images and read the story: Wonder Woman Checks Breasts for Cancer

High-powered magnets — the kind you might have sitting on your desk right now — may pose a serious risk to the children in your life.

With an increasing number of incident reports to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the agency has issued a warning that high-powered magnets are a safety risk for children.

The type of magnets in question are the high-powered ball-bearing magnets that are marketed to adults as stress relievers or desk toys.

Read it: High-Powered Magnets Deadly to Children

Having cancer is stressful enough, but what if potentially lifesaving chemotherapy drugs were in short supply and unavailable to you? And how would you feel if these shortages were entirely preventable?

President Obama recently signed an executive order directing the FDA to step up work to reduce drug shortages. Drug companies will be required to let the FDA know of the possibility of drug shortages sooner. The FDA and the Department of Justice will be investigating abuses that would lead to drug shortages, and agencies will be empowered to stop the practice of driving up prices and creating shortages due to the manipulations of companies or distributors.

Why are many cancer drugs in short supply?

Read: Economics Behind Cancer Drug Shortages

It is estimated that more than 65 million people in the United States provide care for a chronically ill, disabled or aging family member or friend during any given year. It takes a physical, emotional, and financial toll, and is an all but invisible labor of love.

Who are the caregivers? Sixty-six percent of family caregivers are women and more than 37 percent are also responsible for children and grandchildren under age 18. Caregiving goes on largely behind closed doors, before and after outside employment.

Read: Caring for the Caregivers

People who are overly optimistic in the face of contrary evidence may have “faulty” function of their frontal lobes, according to new research.

Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London (UCL) found that people who are very optimistic about the outcome of events tend to learn only from information that reinforces their “rose-tinted view of the world.”

Read it: Is it always good to be optimistic?