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| Starting Anew: Why New Year's Resolutions Fail |
12-19-2007 |
| Introverts vs. Extroverts Surviving vs. Thriving at Holiday Time |
12-19-2007 |
| Medication Mistakes Parents Make | 12-13-2007 |
| Online Love | 12-05-2007 |
| Got (breast) Milk? | 11-29-2007 |
| Grateful-ology Science and research on gratitude |
11-20-2007 |
| Smoking 101: What Happens When You Smoke, Puff by Puff? What Happens When You Quit, Breath by Breath? |
11-15-2007 |
| Super Bug Antibiotic-resistant ear infections |
11-8-2007 |
| Me and My Shadow | 10-31-2007 |
| Sleeping with the Enemy: Your worst day may be the first day you start saving your life |
10-25-2007 |
| Impulsivity: When you can't curb the urge |
10-17-2007 |
| Understanding Anger, Aggression and Violence | 10-10-2007 |
| Nobody wants me... and I can prove it. How hypersensitive people experience rejection |
10-03-2007 |
| Back by Popular Demand! Top 7 (More) Questions Parents Want the Experts to Answer |
09-27-2007 |
| Making Room for Pain and Peace: 80 Years of Justice |
09-19-2007 |
| Part Two: A parent's guide to having "the talk" with your 'Tweens & Teens |
09-12-2007 |
| Part One: A parent's guide to having "the talk" with your young children |
09-06-2007 |
| From Scratch Nine months after a devastating wreck, Dan Ryder’s pelvis was still in pieces. His new surgeon had a plan: start all over. |
08-29-2007 |
| Brain Drain Two lucky patients can hold their heads high (and one can even fly!) thanks to advances in treating hydrocephalus |
08-22-2007 |
| Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: a year-round danger |
08-15-2007 |
| Poison Ivy: What to Do Next |
08-08-2007 |
| Singin' the West Nile Blues Clinical depression can strike West Nile patients up to one year after infection, new research finds. |
08-01-2007 |
| Oh, Baby! Bariatric surgery can help women lose weight and gain a baby |
07-25-2007 |
| ByPassing Diabetes New evidence shows weight-loss surgery improves or resolves insulin resistance |
07-19-2007 |
| The Moment: How to be the hypen between Multi and Tasking |
07-11-2007 |
| Car Wrecks: Saving Life and Limb |
06-27-2007 |
| Hurricane and Flood "Before & After" Handbook |
06-20-2007 |
06-13-2007 |
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| Doctors are from Venus;
Patients are from Mars How to be Heard |
06-06-2007 |
| Strange Brew: Electrolytes and their roles |
05-31-2007 |
| Polycystic Ovary Syndrome When a rite of passage takes a wrong turn |
05-23-2007 |
| For Better or Worse Gatherings Can Heal |
05-17-2007 |
| Healthy Gums A Mother's Day Gift to Both of You |
05-09-2007 |
| Practicing Magazine Medicine? Top women’s magazines skimp on health information, new study shows |
05-03-2007 |
| Gut Feeling Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
04-25-2007 |
| Colic: Taking the Fuss Out |
04-18-2007 |
| Magical Thinking: Science & Superstition |
04-13-2007 |
| Male Breasts Gynecomastia: When nature gets confused |
04-04-2007 |
| Seeing Red: Children’s eyes turn red for many reasons. Usually, it clears up on its own. When it doesn’t, often the best doctors are stumped. This one wasn’t . A little girl’s eyesight, saved. |
03-28-2007 |
| Spring....Brake! After a week of non-stop beer bonging and binge drinking, some students will belly up to the Web to sober up at e-CHUG |
03-15-2007 |
| Shopping And Your Brain | 03-07-2007 |
| HIV and Pregnancy | 02-28-2007 |
| The Woman's Heart and New Guidelines New heart health guidelines and a trip to the ER proved to one woman that she—and her heart were now being taken seriously |
02-22-2007 |
| Stem Cells 101 The what, why, where, when and how of today’s biggest scientific debate |
02-07-2007 |
| The Grudge: It begins with a hurt and ends with a decision: to carry it or bury it. |
01-31-2007 |
| Top 30 Ways To Ruin (& Repair) Your Workout | 01-25-2007 |
| Bad Hair Day: Why some women lose their hair |
01-17-2007 |
| Shedding Pounds: Leptin vs. Will Power? | 01-05-2007 |
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Microwaves and 'Erupted Hot Water Phenomena'
Hot-water eruption can occur if you use a microwave oven to super-heat water in a clean cup. ("Super-heated" means the water is hot beyond boiling temperature, although it shows no signs of boiling.)
A slight disturbance or movement may cause the water to violently explode out of the cup. There have been reports of serious skin burns or scalding injuries around people's hands and faces as a result of this phenomenon.
Adding materials such as instant coffee or sugar to the water before heating greatly reduces the risk of hot-water eruption. Also, follow the precautions and recommendations found in microwave oven instruction manuals; specifically the heating time.
