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How All Millennials Think About Pregnancy

How All Millennials Think About Pregnancy

The modern birth announcement

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

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.

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.

Caffeinated Gum: A Dream Deferred flickr

Caffeinated Gum: A Dream Deferred

Wrigley revoked caffeine-gum in response to FDA noise. Is this where it ends?

Lost in Medication guy schmidt/Flickr

Lost in Medication

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.

The Consolation of a Psych Diagnosis Lomo-Cam/Flickr

The Consolation of a Psych Diagnosis

How labels obscure humanity in mental illness

Study: Tanning Lowers Blood Pressure ... So Whatsername?/Flickr

Study: Tanning Lowers Blood Pressure ... So

People who spent 20 minutes under UVA-radiating lamps appeared to experience cardiovascular benefits.

Getting to the Right Relationship Between Doctors and Drug Companies dvortygirl/Flickr

Getting to the Right Relationship Between Doctors and Drug Companies

There is a way to cultivate, not demonize, collaboration between physicians and pharma.

What Does Sarin Do to People? flickr

What Does Sarin Do to People?

The "nerve agent" does not directly kill. Rather, within seconds, it turns our own nervous systems against us.

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