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Shots - Health Blog
10:17 am
Thu September 20, 2012

The 'Facebook Effect' On Organ Donation

Facebook is taking its campaign to boost organ donations to Canada and Mexico this week, four months after its premiere.

The feature allows Facebook users to tell their friends and family that they're registered organ donors. It also directs people who aren't signed up as organ donors to the official registries where they live.

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Shots - Health Blog
12:22 pm
Fri September 14, 2012

How's Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know

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Members of the online community Track Your Plaque get advice from a doctor and each other on how to cook low carb meals.

Originally published on Mon March 25, 2013 1:33 pm

Our impulse to share intimate details about our lives within our social networks (and even sometimes with complete strangers) seems to know few bounds.

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The Salt
6:12 pm
Tue September 11, 2012

Yelp Reviewers Slice And Dice The Politics Of Pizza

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President Obama is lifted off the ground by Scott Van Duzer, owner of Big Apple Pizza and Pasta Italian Restaurant, during an unannounced stop Sunday in Fort Pierce, Fla.

Originally published on Wed September 19, 2012 3:07 pm

When Scott Van Duzer welcomed President Obama to his pizza shop Sunday with a massive bearhug, it was the beginning of the end of his anonymity.

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The Two-Way
2:59 pm
Mon September 10, 2012

GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Member Takes Responsibility

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GoDaddy logo.

Originally published on Mon September 10, 2012 4:09 pm

The web hosting company GoDaddy has been experiencing severe outages today. Many of its members are complaining that their service is down.

How wide this outage spreads is hard to tell, but GoDaddy aknowledged it was having problems on its Twitter stream.

"We're aware of the trouble people are having with our site," it said. "We're working on it."

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