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This photo combination shows Carmen Blandin Tarleton, who suffered chemical burns over 80 percent of her body when her estranged husband doused her with lye in June 2007. The undated photo at left, provided by the Blandin family, shows Tarleton before the attack. The center photo, provided by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, shows Tarleton in July 2011. The photo at right shows Tarleton on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, after her successful face transplant in February. (AP Photo)

Woman disfigured in attack reveals new face

A Vermont woman revealed her new face six years after her ex-husband doused her with industrial-strength lye.

In this Tuesday, April 30, 2013, photo, Lon Finkelstein, CFO of Vermont Tent Company, speaks in South Burlington, Vt. Finkelstein, chief financial officer of Vermont Tent Co., has been trying to figure out how many employees the company would need to provide health coverage for under the new health care law. The South Burlington company, which rents tents and party equipment, has a staff that ranges from 30 in the off-season to 70 during the busy spring, summer and fall months. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Businesses may get sticker shock on health care

Small business owners may be experiencing sticker shock now that insurers are revealing the rates they want to charge under the new health care law. So far, in Rhode Island, insurers are requesting premium increases of up to 14 percent for small business coverage when the Affordable Care Act is ...

31 healthy snacks for fruit lovers

We all know fruit’s one of those healthy food groups. But that doesn’t mean we can only eat it au natural! Here are 31 fruit-filled snacks to make your daily dose of fruit a bit more interesting. Sweet 1. Chocolate-Covered Kiwi Pops This chocolate-fruit combo isn’t as classic as strawberries and chocolate, ...

A photo-realistic rendering shows just how bizarre a life-sized Barbie would actually look and uncovers the impossible physical proportions of the doll idolized as perfection by so many. This project was created by Rehabs.com, as part of a larger report on body hatred among young women. http://bit.ly/16iK14M

A look at life-sized Barbie's bizarre body

A photo-realistic rendering shows just how bizarre a life-sized Barbie would actually look and uncovers the impossible physical proportions of the doll idolized as perfection by so many.

Fourth Annual Surfers for Autism of the Palm Beaches Beach Festival in Jupiter, Fla., Friday, April 19, 2013. (Gary Coronado/The Palm Beach Post)

UCLA to test drugs for autism in weeks not years

In an effort to find a treatment for autism, scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, are leading a $9 million experiment that aims to evaluate the effectiveness of drugs within weeks rather than years. It's part of a push by the National Institutes of Health to fast-track the ...

Makenna Villone (front row, from left), Erin O’Dea, Katie Thompson and Greta Hans participate in the morning Zumba class at Sope Creek Elementary. Sope Creek Elementary students in Cobb County run laps, attend a Zumba class and play wall ball and basketball games before school to improve their test scores.

Sope Creek gets kids moving

As the sound system pounds out “Glad You Came” by The Wanted, the doors to the modest gymnasium at Sope Creek Elementary School fly open and children come streaming into the room, racing to take their place among the line dancers. Suddenly there are 75 third-, fourth- and fifth-graders twisting, ...

26 super healthy foods to start eating today

Fruits, and veggies, and whole grains, oh my! Beyond the grocery store shelves lined with less-than-healthy processed foods in brightly-colored packaging, there are still hundreds of healthy options waiting to be picked up and put in your shopping cart. (Many come in vibrant natural packaging!) They span every food group, ...

MDs warn teens: Don't take the cinnamon challenge

Don't take the cinnamon challenge. That's the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers. The fad involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon ...

Fitness guru Jillian Michaels will bring her “Maximize Your Life” tour to Atlanta’s Fox Theatre.

‘Biggest Loser’ trainer works to inspire, too

Jillian Michaels is known as a take-no-prisoners trainer on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser.” But the personal trainer wants to give her fans a broader spectrum of her philosophies on her “Maximize Your Life” tour, which hits the Fox Theatre at 5 p.m. Sunday. While Michaels has done a few speeches ...

Certain noises during sleep can boost memory

Certain noises during sleep can boost memory

Certain noises during sleep can boost memory. Need to learn a language or memorize the entire history of western civilization this week? Consider sleeping your way to success.Sleep has been proven to aid the brain’s ability to sift and catalog information, but scientists believe they have found a way to ...

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