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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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A childhood hearing impairment, discovered at age 33
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People who spent 20 minutes under UVA-radiating lamps appeared to experience cardiovascular benefits.
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The "nerve agent" does not directly kill. Rather, within seconds, it turns our own nervous systems against us.
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Alternative therapies meant to help us "break the train of everyday thinking" have effects on a cellular level.
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Archaeologists announced today the "first solid evidence" that some 17th-century American colonists consumed one another.
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Kids living in the U.S. who were born elsewhere are 59 percent less likely to have allergic diseases, but their risk increases with time spent in the country.
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The obesity rate is 27.5 percent higher in New York City neighborhoods where the greatest proportion of people "like" television on Facebook.
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Looking at how quickly different animals and even invidual cells die when they're isolated from others seems tell us something about the importance of social ties.
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Audio recordings made in exam rooms indicate that doctors "operate at an emotional distance" from overweight and obese patients.
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