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How Exercising at Work Saves Money

How Exercising at Work Saves Money

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.

The Quintessential Old-School Bodybuilding Gym

The Quintessential Old-School Bodybuilding Gym

Frenchie and his gym wouldn't be out of place in a Tarantino flick.

Disconcerting Robot Detects Depression

Disconcerting Robot Detects Depression

Augmenting psychiatric diagnosis with data

Prescription for Information Overload

Prescription for Information Overload

Advanced computing looks at yesterday's treatments to improve tomorrow's.

Using Watson to Help Respond to Health Care's Challenges

Using Watson to Help Respond to Health Care's Challenges

By learning to read like a human, Watson makes sense of medical data in ways that traditional computing can't.

Eradicating Polio in India: Portraits Esha Chhabra

Eradicating Polio in India: Portraits

Public health workers have taken on the mission of vaccinating 170 million children under the age of five.

Study: Kids Are Prejudiced Against Fat People by Age 4 Peter Becker/Flickr

Study: Kids Are Prejudiced Against Fat People by Age 4

British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends.

Ask Alison: Age Hangups, Cheap Weddings, and Respectable Breakups flickr

Ask Alison: Age Hangups, Cheap Weddings, and Respectable Breakups

Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating

Insanity: The Rise of the Supercharged Home Workout BeachBody

Insanity: The Rise of the Supercharged Home Workout

In the era of instant gratification, the unexpected success of "the hardest workout ever put on DVD"

Study: Men's Biceps Predict Their Political Ideologies Valentin Flauraud/Reuters

Study: Men's Biceps Predict Their Political Ideologies

Positions on economic redistribution correlated with upper-body strength.

How All Millennials Think About Pregnancy

How All Millennials Think About Pregnancy

The modern birth announcement

The Great Salt Debate: So Bad?

The Great Salt Debate: So Bad?

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.

When to Do Surgery on a Child With 'Both' Genitalia stephendepolo/Flickr

When to Do Surgery on a Child With 'Both' Genitalia

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

Study: Happiness Comes Easier With Upbeat Music Toby Melville/Reuters

Study: Happiness Comes Easier With Upbeat Music

Resarch subjects were better able to will themselves into positive moods while listening to rousing symphonies.

The Michael J. Fox Show, Life With Parkinson's NBC

The Michael J. Fox Show, Life With Parkinson's

Write a show about a family man with an incurable neurodegenerative condition, and make it funny and not manipulative. Okay, go.

How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach Reuters

How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach

The promise of delinking research and development from the actual manufacture of drugs, and why the pharmaceutical industry rejects an idea that could turn neglected diseases into profit

Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier Nick Adams/Reuters

Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier

Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.

How to Walk Away Phineas H/Flickr

How to Walk Away

The psychology of lost causes

There's More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs 360around/Flickr

There's More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs

Societal changes that help working mothers would be much more effective -- and much less expensive -- than telling women to postpone procreation.

Study: People Test Positive for Smoke Exposure After Staying in Non-Smoking Hotel Rooms bradleygee/Flickr

Study: People Test Positive for Smoke Exposure After Staying in Non-Smoking Hotel Rooms

Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning.

Why Babies Shouldn't Suck on Honey flickr

Why Babies Shouldn't Suck on Honey

Possibilities include floppy baby syndrome and death, but honey-pacifiers still exist.

Yeast: Love and Fear, Death and Beer Jamal Saidi/Flickr

Yeast: Love and Fear, Death and Beer

Single-celled fungi all around us do so much good and so much bad.

Study: Parents Who 'Clean' Pacifiers With Their Mouths May Be Protecting Kids From Asthma, Allergies @boetter/Flickr

Study: Parents Who 'Clean' Pacifiers With Their Mouths May Be Protecting Kids From Asthma, Allergies

At 18 months, babies who had come into repeated contact with their parents' saliva were 12 percent less likely to have asthma and 37 percent less likely to develop eczema.

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