The computer program that can tell if you're depressed http://t.co/IrDmuaIdLj about 10 hours ago
Eradicating polio in India: Portaits of the faces behind the Gates effort http://t.co/CMtCz2TRo3 about 14 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 14 hours ago
Follow the Health ChannelAngelo Volandes's low-tech, high-empathy plan to revolutionize end-of-life care
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.
Frenchie and his gym wouldn't be out of place in a Tarantino flick.
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In the era of instant gratification, the unexpected success of "the hardest workout ever put on DVD"
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.
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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.
Reuters
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
The world may never run out of oil—and the consequences could be dire. Plus: avoiding the worst parts of death, Henry Kissinger's statesmanship, reconsidering hair metal, and more.
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