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Can going viral on a Facebook Fan Page get you you a gig on Saturday Night Live? If fans have their way – Betty White might be the first actress to score such a deal. She may have started her showbiz career back in the days of “I Love Lucy,” but today you haven’t hit the big time until you’ve gone viral.

The Annual TED Conference taking place February 9-13 in Long Beach, California has an elitism about it.  If you have $6000 to spend on an event – If you are an expert in the field of technology, entertainment or design – if you know how to deliver information in a new and innovative fashion – and of course there is that little matter about being invited – you might be worthy of  being considered a TED-Head with TED-Cred. If not, join the rest of us -  the club of TED-Fed D-Listers who can only witness the affair from afar, like a kid with no funds peering into the window of a candy store.

The Annual TED Conference taking place February 9-13 in Long Beach, California has an elitism about it.  If you have $6000 to spend on an event – If you are an expert in the field of technology, entertainment or design – if you know how to deliver information in a new and innovative fashion – and of course there is that little matter about being invited – you might be worthy of  being considered a TED-Head with TED-Cred. If not, join the rest of us -  the club of TED-Fed D-Listers who can only witness the affair from afar, like a kid with no funds peering into the window of a candy store.

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ovarian Cancer Institute have been experimenting with magnetic nanoparticles focused on attracting cancer cells so that they could be separated from healthy cells and removed from the site.

AT&T now stands to make even more money than they’re making now, which they said in a press release yesterday was a record high.

Since last week, when I wrote about certain blood pressure medications and their positive effects on memory, there have been a few new studies published relating the effects of medication and diet on blood pressure and dementia.  Just so that you’re not thinking deja vu all over again at what seems like a repetition of yesterday’s news, I thought I’d prepare a short summary of how these studies interrelate and what they mean to us.

This is an ad for a blood pressure medication, not one for an erectile dysfunction drug. Lowering one’s blood pressure can help to reduce the risk of heart attack during sexual activity, but what about lowering one’s risk of dementia? Researchers from Boston University looked into this relationship.

Hey, if the economy can receive bail-outs, why can the LOVE department?

Soon you will be able to find a “mother’s milk” cocktail called Souvenaid® on your drug store or supermarket shelves. And why would you drink it? To improve your memory, of course!

Though they are not exactly hit men, certain enzymes in fat cells have been found aiding and abetting the spread of the most aggressive cancer cells.  The guilty enzymes are the monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) enzymes, which put cancer cells into overdrive when they come in contact.