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Today the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America voted to include openly gay boys and young men. Some fear this will result in "injection of hypersexuality and gay activism into a youth organization." It won't.
How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research
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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.
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The many considerations in "repairing" the face of a child
Esha Chhabra
Public health workers have taken on the mission of vaccinating 170 million children under the age of five.
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British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends.
The modern birth announcement
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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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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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Single-celled fungi all around us do so much good and so much bad.
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