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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fe77369e-57a7-456c-b252-5f999144d1f1/D48FFF1A-6E1C-4B4D-AC2C-DB5F314051F5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/medical-myths-even-doctors-believe/?hp" href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/medical-myths-even-doctors-believe/?hp" style="font-size: 11px;">well.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/medical-myths-even-doctors-believe/?hp"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/well.blogs.nytimes.com/img/E161DCB2-6826-4666-837A-464C46C02AB3" alt="New York Times" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/medical-myths-even-doctors-believe/?hp"><H2 class="post-title">Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/medical-myths-even-doctors-believe/?hp"><P>Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine made a list of common medical beliefs espoused by physicians and the general public. They included statements they had heard endorsed by doctors on multiple occasions. The result is a <A target="_blank" href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7633/1288">seven-item list</A> of medical and health myths that are widely repeated by doctors and in the media, all of which either aren’t true or lack scientific evidence to support them.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7633/1288" href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7633/1288" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bmj.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7633/1288"><UL><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">People should drink at least eight glasses of water a day<SUP> </SUP> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">We<SUP> </SUP>use only 10% of our brains<SUP> </SUP> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Hair and fingernails continue to<SUP> </SUP>grow after death<SUP> </SUP> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Shaving hair causes it to grow back faster,<SUP> </SUP>darker, or coarser<SUP> </SUP> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight<SUP> </SUP> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Eating turkey makes people especially drowsy<SUP> </SUP> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Mobile phones<SUP> </SUP>create considerable electromagnetic interference<SUP> </SUP>in hospitals.<SUP> </SUP> </LI></UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D48FFF1A-6E1C-4B4D-AC2C-DB5F314051F5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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