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Senie Byrne began menstruating at 15, and she quickly became an expert in pain management. Every month, it felt as if 1,000 darts had plunged into her abdomen; she sometimes passed out from the cramps. She was often nauseated, constipated and exhausted. At times, she had diarrhea. She said she saw 22 doctors  “They told me that it was all part of being a woman, and that there was nothing they could do for me,” said Ms. Byrne, 29, who works in financial services in Leesburg, Va. One doctor gave her a prescription for Prozac, telling her it was all in her head. over the years, but none took her seriously.

Sadly, for more than half my life, I had avoided some of nature’s most perfect and healthful foods: nuts and peanuts. I had been mistakenly told as a teenager that nuts were fattening and constipating, effects I certainly wanted to avoid. But based on what I have learned to the contrary from recent studies, I now enjoy them daily as nuts or nut butters in my breakfasts, salads, sandwiches and snacks. A baggie of lightly salted peanuts accompanies me on excursions everywhere; I even keep a jar of peanuts in my car.

Risk of foodborne illness is much greater without pasteurization Raw milk causes more than half of all milk-related foodborne illnesses in the United States, even though only about 3.5 percent of Americans drink raw milk, according to a new report. The researchers warned that people are nearly 100 times more likely to get a foodborne illness from raw (unpasteurized) milk than from pasteurized milk.

UMass Medical School is awash in blue for World Autism Awareness Day.

Wasatch Wednesday: Alumna Caroline Gleich scouts a line off Mt. Olympus. Photo by Rob Lea.

Manchester United enter the final straight in the race for the Barclays Premier League top four with a home game against Aston Villa on Saturday. Following the latest international break, it’s domestic action all the way from here on in, with the Reds playing on each of the eight weekends between now and the last Sunday of the season on 24 May.

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Fashion student Betty Chen works on details for the opening dress in her collection. (Karin Higgins/UC Davis photo) (UC)  - Sewing machines click and hum, scissors whip through fabric and somber gray mannequins are brought to life as they’re draped in outfits of red, blue, purple and white. It’s the Cruess Hall sewing lab at UC Davis — “Project Runway,” but without all the drama. The 20 students in the studio are all design majors, most near graduation, and, combined, the four-to-six-piece fashion collection each creates during the class will be the centerpiece of the UC Davis Picnic Day Fashion Show April 18.

WASHINGTON –  Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing back on proposed dietary guidelines they say wrongly downplay the benefits of lean red meat and advance an environmental agenda rather than promoting healthy choices based on “sound nutritional science.” Seventy-one House lawmakers sent a letter Tuesday to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell expressing their disappointment over a recent report issued by the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. They said the report exceeded its scope in developing the recommendations. 

Javier Mascherano  played all 90 minutes of Argentina’s 2-1 win over Ecuador on Tuesday at a snowy Metlife Stadium, New Jersey. Manager Gerardo Martino decided not to play Messi as a precautionary measure, and watched as his side took an 8th minute lead through Sergio Agüero (8’), the Manchester City heading home a Javier Pastore corner. But Ecuador pulled level through Miller Bolaños on 27 minutes.

Stanford University has offered admission to 2,144 students, including 742 applicants who were accepted last December through the early action program, the Office of Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid announced today. In addition, Stanford announced that it is expanding financial aid by increasing the income thresholds at which parents are not expected to contribute toward educational costs.

                                  ESPN’s SportsCenter anchor Kevin Negandhi, SMC '98, is a Temple graduate. Three prominent figures, with deep ties to the Philadelphia area, will be honored during Temple University’s 128th Commencement ceremony on May 8 at 10 a.m. in the Liacouras Center on Temple’s Main Campus in Philadelphia. Malcolm Hoenlein, CLA ’65, and Kevin Negandhi, SMC ’98, both Temple alumni, and James Joo-Jin Kim will be honored for outstanding achievements and service.

Have you ever started an exercise program, stopped for a year and then tried to pick up where you left off? It’s a mistake. California education officials are making the same mistake with our students, with math. All through elementary school, middle school and the beginning of high school, students in California take mathematics. Then in their last year, they stop, because they are only required to take three years of math to be admitted to University of California and California State University campuses. They need just two years to graduate from high school. This makes no sense.

A volunteer health sciences student checks the blood pressure of a participant during the MCV Campus Student Government Association's eighth annual VCU Wellness Block Party.   The Virginia Commonwealth University  MCV Campus Student Government Association  partnered with the Seventh District’s Healthy U and  Camp Diva ’s Date with Dad Weekend to host its eighth annual community health fair on March 21 at Armstrong High School, providing free health screenings, wellness education and follow-up resources to approximately 500 children and adults from the Richmond community.

UTSA Marketing professor Kristina Durante conducts interesting research on women's behavior. Her research has been featured in publications across the country and is an exciting part of all the research happening at UTSA.

Harvard researchers, probing the mystery of how some bacteria move across surfaces, have discovered a kind of rotary motor in the bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae. The finding came as Abhishek Shrivastava, a postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of Howard Berg, the Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and a professor of molecular and cellular biology, was investigating how many types of bacteria, including F. johnsoniae, are able to move without the aid of flagella or pili. The discovery is described in a recently published paper in Current Biology.

(BBC)-   Scientists believe bushmeat is the origin of the current Ebola outbreak. A year ago, Sierra Leone put a ban on bushmeat - but is it working? The old man crouched in the undergrowth and started mewling. The sound was a cry of distress. But the old man was not in pain. He was imitating the sound of a baby antelope calling to its mother. Then the veteran hunter pointed a stick, posing as a rifle, in the direction he was sending his distress call.

Imagine you get back home late after a really long, exhausting day, and you finally get to crash on your bed. You are just on the brink of falling asleep. That's when it starts — you feel like your head is about to burst as you begin to hear a disturbing, loud noise that sounds like a gunshot or an explosion, and it's making you really scared.

The University of Colorado Board of Regents Monday morning voted 8-1 to approve a resident tuition increase of 2.9 percent at CU-Boulder, the lowest for resident student tuition approved by the board since 2006, when it raised tuition 2.51 percent for residents. Non-resident undergraduate students will see a 3.0% increase, and international undergraduate students a 3.1% increase.

Good schools and strong teachers are keys for children to thrive in class. But a Harvard study says that, for them to succeed, it also matters if they’re happy. As policymakers, administrators, and teachers, we want the children in our classrooms to be happy, of course. But how much does their happiness really matter when it comes to learning? According to a new study by HGSE lecturer Christina Hinton, Ed.D.’12, the answer is clear: It matters a lot.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY -Among the ideas so widely accepted that they are rarely, if ever, studied is the notion that wider hips make women less efficient when they walk and run. For decades, this assumption has been used to explain why women don’t have wider hips, which would make childbirth easier and less dangerous. The argument, known as the “obstetrical dilemma,” suggests that for millions of years humans and their bipedal ancestors faced an evolutionary tradeoff in which selection for wider hips for childbirth was countered by selection for narrower hips for efficient locomotion.

  News of medical studies fill the headlines and airwaves — often in blatant contradiction. We've all seen it: One week, coffee helps cure cancer; the next, it causes it. From a consumer's perspective, the situation can be very confusing and potentially damaging — for example, in a case where someone with a serious illness believes and follows the wrong lead.

Penn freshman Marwan Mahmoud was named to the 2014-15 All-Ivy team Courtesy: Hunter Martin PHILADELPHIA – In his first season, playing in the No. 1 position for the University of Pennsylvania men’s squash team, freshman Marwan Mahmoud was named a unanimous All-Ivy selection. Mahmoud finished his first campaign with the Quakers, compiling a 15-6 overall record in the top spot on the ladder, including a 6-1 Ivy League record.

George Woo BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University Bloomington's annual observance of  Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month  will begin Sunday, March 29, with the presentation of IU's Distinguished Asian American Alumni Award. Cultural festivals, film screenings and panel discussions are among other highlights for the monthlong series of activities that highlight issues facing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

As the Rhodes Must Fall movement at the University of Cape Town (UCT) approaches its third week, I thought it necessary to put down the 10 most useless responses people have made to it thus far, and jot down useful counter-responses to them. These counter-responses are collated and developed from real responses from students on the ground and in the media. I therefore document the counter-responses in the voice of the student movement (and not my own) — to  emphasize  that they are voices from below — undertaking the task of responding to attacks on the Rhodes Must Fall movement from different corners.

Henri Boyi Western University- Western French Studies professor Henri Boyi and Medicine/Microbiology & Immunology professor Lakshman Gunaratnam, along with alumnus Navjeet ‘Bob’ Dhillon, have been named finalist for the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award for 2015. The annual event, given out by Canadian Immigrant Magazine, in partnership with RBC Royal Bank, since 2009, is the first Canadian national award program that recognizes immigrants’ achievements from all walks of life.

Monica McGrath, Vice Dean for the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton’s “No Ceilings” report reveals truths behind workplace gender inequities, but are corporations listening? Sometimes, I find this thought running through my head: how can the United States still not have a law providing paid maternity leave? What is this, 1965? In case you’re curious, the only other industrialized countries without paid maternity leave are the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Suriname, and Tonga. This data point — along with a wealth of other numbers about the health, education, and status of women and girls — appears in the “No Ceilings” report recently published by the Clinton and Gates Foundations. It’s a follow-up on 21 years of progress since the 1995 UN Conference on Women held in Beijing. As the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s vice dean of exec...