Give whooping cough the whoopin' it deserves
The whooping crane is an endangered species - about 400 of these noisy, 5-foot-tall birds are left in North America. If only whooping cough (that's pertussis) - a virulent, life-threatening infection - could be wiped out instead! In the 1970s, there were only a couple of thousand reported cases annually...
Pregnant and smoking marijuana? Big mistake.
At the end of its seven-year run, "Mad Men's" producers admitted that, on screen, the characters smoked a whopping 942 cigarettes, several of them by protagonist Don Draper's wife Betty while she was pregnant.
These days, you all know it's dangerous to smoke cigarettes while pregnant; it leads...
Short-term steroid use alert
Miguel Indurain, five-time winner of the Tour de France, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, an Olympic track star, and Jerome Bettis, a running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers, were able to master their sport despite having asthma. Around 25 million Americas also contend with the disease, and work hard to control it so they, too,...