I make yogurt with aheating pad wrapped around a gallon jar of milk.

And finally, at three o'clock one morning--after having slept no more than four hours in three days, and writhing in pain atop a pillow, then on ice, then on aheating pad, then on the hard floor, then over the exercise ball, then in the bathtub--only then did I give up dancing.

Two to three minutes in the microwave and you have a greatheating pad. Keep up the good work.--Frances G.

The units feature 30-minute automatic shutoff, electronic push-button controls and a deluxe cloth cover with a Velcro strap to secure theheating pad.

A surgical team worked for two hours to save the life of Cooper's eight-foot-long albino python, also called Alice, after it ate aheating pad which had been left in its cage.

Dancers turn to heat and ice as an ache-reducing regimen, but who wants to carry around a bag of ice and aheating pad? The alternating hot and cold shower, known as contrast therapy, combines the inflammation-reducing benefits of ice with the circulation-improving benefits of heat.

Bruder's powered automatic moistheating pad is now being introduced for effective self-administered treatments at home.

You can use either dry heat (aheating pad or heat lamp) or moist heat (a hot bath, whirlpool, hot-water bottle, heat pack, or damp towel wrapped around a waterproofheating pad).

HEAT Immediately warm the kitten by wrapping it in a towel or placing it on aheating pad (cover the pad with a soft blanket or towel so the kitten doesn't get burned).

You also can try using heat by taking a warm bath or using aheating pad for a short time (but don't use aheating pad without your parents' help).

When used in conjunction with a batteryheating pad, the wraps can provide very close control of battery temperature in just about any type of cold weather condition, the company explained.

"The major, strategic portion of the purchase was theheating pad business," he said.