The holidays are fast approaching and we all know what that means. It's time once again to break our diets and gorge ourselves on food and drinks. However, sugary drinks can take their toll and create a Santa like belly. This creates a problem.

So, how do you drink this holiday season while maintaining your diet? The quick answer: with low calorie cocktails like these:

It’s one thing to just tell people that smoking can and often times will kill them. But to show them? Well that’s just going too far. A new FDA regulation would require what they call “frank and honest warnings” depicting among other things, a blackened smoker’s lung and a post-autopsy corpse on the front and back top halfs of cigarette packaging. R.J. Reynolds and friends are naturally not too happy about this. So they sued.

These strange-but-true nursing stories were told by nurses and nurse assistants in various places around the Web.

Despite the advanced training and expertise of doctors and nurses, some events defy medical reason and can be labeled only as "miraculous"...

History is full of catastrophes, and a plague is without doubt one of the deadliest. Modern medicine provides relief from some of them these days, but in past centuries humans have been at the mercy of all kinds of bacteria, viruses and other icky stuff.

Hindsight is always 20/20. Here is a list of famous human pandemics, and how the diseases responsible would be handled today.