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A great site to learn about the up and coming high school basketball stars. A lot of interesting young athlete profiles.

Lists of health news stories and sources of information.

Patient advocates say that Kinley-Manton is one of a small but possibly growing number of patients being denied nonessential surgeries by British health authorities because of their weight. No statistics exist on how many people are in a similar position, but patients' groups say they are getting a steady stream of complaints.

Scientists in Oregon say they've reached the long-sought goal of cloning monkey embryos and extracting stem cells from them, a potentially major step toward doing the same thing in people.

From the page: "The crowd is mostly booing at this point. "I came for a concert," one man behind me yelled. "Refund. Refund," another chanted a few rows back. One person in the crowd made this observation: "Are they booing Edwards specifically? "

To all the health and fat Nazi's read it and weep:
About two years ago, a group of federal researchers reported that overweight people have a lower death rate than people who are normal weight, underweight or obese. Now, investigating further, they found out which diseases are more likely to lead to death in each weight group.

Linking, for the first time, causes of death to specific weights, they report that overweight people have a lower death rate because they are much less likely to die from a grab bag of diseases that includes Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, infections and lung disease. And that lower risk is not counteracted by increased risks of dying from any other disease, including cancer, diabetes or heart disease.

As a consequence, the group from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute reports, there were more than 100,000 fewer deaths among the overweight in 2004, the most recent year for which data were available, than would have expected if those people had been of normal weight.

Their paper is published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

A global shortage of helium, which is extracted from natural gas, is on the rise and the squeeze is being felt in industries as diverse as party supplies, health care, manufacturing, technology and even aerospace.

Helium is used to cool the large magnets in MRI machines and is also used in laser welding, microchip production and to cool space shuttles upon re-entry into the atmosphere.