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Follow the Health ChannelUnexpected discoveries in the quest to cure an extraordinary skeletal condition show how medically relevant rare diseases can be.
New research on first impressions
Angelo Volandes's low-tech, high-empathy plan to revolutionize end-of-life care
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Inspired by pop stars and encouraged by culture that equates success with physical beauty, the "self-racism subtext" of buying an ideal Korean face
Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
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Today the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America voted to include openly gay boys and young men. Some fear this will result in "injection of hypersexuality and gay activism into a youth organization." It won't.
Advanced computing looks at yesterday's treatments to improve tomorrow's.
By learning to read like a human, Watson makes sense of medical data in ways that traditional computing can't.
How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research
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Clenching a hand increases focal brain activity. Make sure to do it correctly, though.
Where there's a uterus, there's a way?
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Creation of worksite wellness programs is promoted by parts of the Affordable Care Act. If your office doesn't have a gym, it soon might -- out of the company's interest.
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The many considerations in "repairing" the face of a child
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Veteran skydivers feel less anxious than beginners, but their bodies still release the same amount of stress hormone.
Frenchie and his gym wouldn't be out of place in a Tarantino flick.
Augmenting psychiatric diagnosis with data
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Public health workers have taken on the mission of vaccinating 170 million children under the age of five.
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British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends.
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Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
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In the era of instant gratification, the unexpected success of "the hardest workout ever put on DVD"
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Positions on economic redistribution correlated with upper-body strength.
The modern birth announcement
This week experts warned against the dangers of overdoing low-sodium diets. That's a step toward what salt advocates like "The Salt Guru" Morton Satin have enjoined for years.
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Understanding the case of an intersex child whose adoptive parents claim was robbed of his genitals, and of the right to decide what should happen to his body
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Resarch subjects were better able to will themselves into positive moods while listening to rousing symphonies.
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Write a show about a family man with an incurable neurodegenerative condition, and make it funny and not manipulative. Okay, go.
James Fallows on Jerry Brown's second chance. Plus: the mystery of the second skeleton, how gay couples are getting marriage right, the end of the retail salesperson, and more.
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Tour the Green Hat Gin Distillery 
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