Eradicating polio in India: Portaits of the faces behind the Gates effort http://t.co/CMtCz2TRo3 about 2 hours ago
.@readingirl is live-tweeting the World Health Assembly in Geneva RT "No one can predict the future course" of the H1N7 outbreak #wha66 about 2 hours ago
Study: Kids are prejudiced against fat people by age 4 http://t.co/4TzL6Vuytw about 3 hours ago
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A new look at the famous Harvard study of what makes people thrive
We don't always know when we're standing over a large deposit of iron ore.
Public health workers have taken on the mission of vaccinating 170 million children under the age of five.
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Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
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Positions on economic redistribution correlated with upper-body strength.
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.
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.
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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
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Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.
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The psychology of lost causes
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Societal changes that help working mothers would be much more effective -- and much less expensive -- than telling women to postpone procreation.
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Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning.
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Possibilities include floppy baby syndrome and death, but honey-pacifiers still exist.
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Single-celled fungi all around us do so much good and so much bad.
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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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Wrigley revoked caffeine-gum in response to FDA noise. Is this where it ends?
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Psychiatrists who take time with their patients are not the norm. It's not because others don't care. Rather the system rewards efficiency, not empathy.
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People were 20 percent more likely to choose DNR if it was phrased as "allowing natural death;" 25 percent if they were told it's what most other people choose.
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A childhood hearing impairment, discovered at age 33
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Kids who were better at reading and math at age seven ended up in a higher socioeconomic class age 42, regardless of what other advantages they had.
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