This is an article about improving your health when you have a thyroid condition.

This article is about a recent study published in Pediatrics magazine suggesting tobacco companies still target at underage kids, in this case, teenage girls. Read on to find out if you think cigarette companies have crossed the line or not.

The effects of nicotine on the body vary from short to long-lasting.  We are familiar with many of these - lung damage, high cholesterol, etc.  But the question is, how long is nicotine actually in your body for?  What is the detection period for a nicotine test (using urine)? When your body takes in nicotine, it starts to break it down.  HowStuffWorks.com walks us through the process. The liver breaks down nicotine into cotinine, the amount of which is proportionate to the...

Can you name them off the top of your head? Talking only about movies that won the Best Picture Oscar. Here are your clues... 1. This is a story about a Texan travelling to New York. Rather than "don't mess with Texas," the moral appears to be "don't mess with New York City." [midnight cowboy] 2. Baguettes, foreign legions, kisses...and this. [french connection] 3. Both of these Oscar winners involve narcotics...they have a lot more in common too. [godfather I & II] 4. Woody Allen has some...

This article covers how long meth stays in your system - in your urine, hair, or saliva.

When stars fail drug tests, they attract a lot of attention and in most cases, their reputation seems to go down. The same is true of the average person too - nobody looks forward to failing a drug test. Well, with the rise of prescription drug use and abuse, more and more people are facing a drug test failure. Someone taking prescription Adderall can take a standard urine test and find out they're positive! When taking Adderall, you will come up positive for amphetamines in a test. Informally...