The legal recognition of alternative "families" in today's world continues unabated with a Manhattan judge ruling that two people who are not romantically involved and don't even live together can adopt a child.
A host of new glitches are arising now that the controversial Affordable Care Act has gone into effect with one of the most outrageous involving new parents who are being told the systems automated feature enabling them to add a new baby to their policy will be "available later."
They're back - those useless 2014 horoscope predictions that somehow manage to garner millions of readers.
Traditionally, the beginning of the New Year is a time for resolutions.However, fewer and fewer people are engaging in this age-old custom. Perhaps most feel the effort is useless. How many resolutions have we made throughout our lives only to find we break them within the first few weeks of their institution? Indeed, Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said that “Resolutions, like the good, die young.”
A new study conducted by researchers in India found that women who were long-term users of oral contraceptives were almost 10 times more likely to develop breast cancer than those who did not use the pill.
If you're looking to lose weight this year, do it the old-fashioned way - with a healthy diet and exercise - and stay away from herbal weight loss products and body-building formulas that new research has found to be linked to severe liver damage.
