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May 5, 2009

Protect yourself from swine flu scams!

It’s an unfortunate reality, but as a widespread, somewhat mysterious illness that has more questions than answers, the swine flu is a ripe target for scam artists. So along with protecting yourself and your family from infection, you’ve also got to be on guard against unscrupulous and shady marketers. There are three main types of swine flu-related scams:

Swine spam
Swine malware
Swine “cures,” “remedies,” and “vaccines”

Swine spam are e-mail messages that have the words “swine flu” in the subject line. The senders are simply using swine flu as a hook to get you to open the e-mail. When you open a spam e-mail, the sender may be notified that yours is a valid address and that you are amenable to opening messages. At a minimum they can collect these “good” addresses and either use them in other marketing campaigns or sell them to other marketers. Once you’ve opened the e-mail, […]

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February 28, 2008

Erectile dysfunction - do ask, do tell

With the advent of a variety of drugs and their near ubiquitous advertising, knowledge about erectile dysfunction has become commonplace and, to a great degree, has lost it’s stigma over the last decade. What you might not know, however, is that erectile dysfunction is often the first sign of either already having cardiovascular disease or being at increased risk of developing it. Its occurrence, therefore, should be a signal to both the man and his physician that a thorough medical evaluation is extremely important. For a man to simply ask for a pill or for a physician to simply prescribe it, without first taking a complete medical history, conducting a full physical examination and conducting appropriate blood tests (and other tests as indicated) would be foolhardy at best.
The term “erectile dysfunction” has several definitions, including the inability to achieve erection, an inconsistent ability to do so, or […]

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