Here's how new FDA rules could wipe out e-cigarettes and other top stories.

• Here's how new FDA rules could wipe out e-cigarettes

  AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh The US government is finally regulating the e-cigarette industry. That has e-cigarette companies worried they could disappear altogether. E-cigarettes are easily the most cyberpunk change to the American visual landscape in the last decade. Where once nicotine users roamed the night with the red specks of burning tobacco floating a few inches from their lips, trailing noxious smoke, now multicolored LEDs light their faces as they puff huge clouds of vapor like bad perfume. B..

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• Weight loss isn't always futile

  

  You lose weight, and then you gain it all back. That grim reality is a mainstay of our obese society. But a new study of contestants on the reality TV show "The Biggest Loser" suggests that, for them, that re-gain was all but pre-ordained.Contestants were severely obese, and exercised and dieted competitively for 30 weeks. The unusual circumstances (most of us don't lose weight with the whole world watching) led to unusual weight loss — more than 100 pounds on average — but the process slowed t..

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• Among warfarin users, patients with AF at increased risk for dementia

  

  SAN FRANCISCO — In patients taking warfarin long term, those with atrial fibrillation had elevated risk for dementia, according to a presentation at the Heart Rhythm Society Annual Scientific Sessions.

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