One of my friends has a stutter, and a lot of people think that’s a bad thing, but to me that’s just like starting certain words with a drum roll. That’s not an impediment, that’s suspense.

March 10, 2010 - Hospitals and professional societies should end bans that that keep many women who’ve had a C-section from opting for a natural birth in later pregnancies, an NIH advisory panel today urged. About 75% of women succeed in having a vaginal delivery after previous cesarean delivery, assuming that it’s not a multiple birth, that the baby is in the normal position, and that their previous C-section required only a single incision.

March 10, 2010 — Nearly 2 million pounds of ready-to-eat beef taquito and chicken quesadilla products that may be contaminated with salmonella have been recalled, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says.

March 10, 2010 – Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) — the latest, still-controversial treatment for tendon injuries — heals tennis elbow better than corticosteroid shots, a new study suggests. Because they get very little blood, injured tendons heal notoriously slowly. Blood platelets attract healing growth factors, so the idea of PRP is to inject a patient’s own platelets at the site of a tendon injury.

Trying to get a drunk girl to finish is like trying to take a drunk girl home when she can’t remember where she lives. She’s like, ‘That’s not it, that’s not it, that’s not it.’

March 9, 2010 — Sleep problems and sleep habits vary among different ethnic groups, according to a new national survey.

March 9, 2010 — New research confirms that giving flu shots to large numbers of school-age children can protect the community at large. The finding adds to evidence in favor of so-called “herd immunity” — the idea that vaccinating the healthy and those most likely to spread the flu can have a dramatic impact on overall transmission rates.

March 9, 2010 — Most companies lack meaningful policies to curb the marketing of high-fat and high-sugar junk food to children, according to a report by a consumer watchdog group. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) gives failing grades to nearly three-quarters of the 128 food, restaurant, and media companies it investigated. The group is concerned that food marketers continue to aggressively promote unhealthy foods to children despite high obesity rates and regulators’ pleas to rein in ads

March 9, 2010 (Miami Beach, Fla.) — While some researchers suggest the rising rate melanoma may simply reflect a change in how doctors diagnose melanoma and the increased availability of skin cancer screenings, a leading dermatologist says the increase is real.

March 8, 2010 — The odds of having a stroke are higher for people whose father or mother had a stroke by age 65, a new study suggests. The finding means that parental stroke may be an important new risk factor for strokes, long known to be associated with high blood pressure. Researchers studied 3,443 people who initially were stroke free and second-generation participants in the Framingham Heart Study.