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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.

Study: Doctors' Word Choice Affects End-of-Life Decisions Alessandro Vernet/Flickr

Study: Doctors' Word Choice Affects End-of-Life Decisions

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.

The Day I Found Out I Was 'Considerably Deaf' graphiclunarkid/Flickr

The Day I Found Out I Was 'Considerably Deaf'

A childhood hearing impairment, discovered at age 33

Study: Math Skills at Age 7 Predict How Much Money You'll Make VinCrosbie/Flickr

Study: Math Skills at Age 7 Predict How Much Money You'll Make

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.

How to Not Hate Dating Reuters

How to Not Hate Dating

Take it easy, be happy alone.

The Consolation of a Psych Diagnosis Lomo-Cam/Flickr

The Consolation of a Psych Diagnosis

How labels obscure humanity in mental illness

Tone Deafness: A Broken Brain? epiclectic/Flickr

Tone Deafness: A Broken Brain?

Researchers have spent the last decade trying to understand why some people are unable to appreciate music.

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.

21 to Drink Coffee? flickr

21 to Drink Coffee?

The U.S. FDA announced a plan to investigate and potentially regulate caffeine.

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.

Study: Babies Like Watching Puppets Who Are Different From Them Get Hurt ilovememphis/flickr

Study: Babies Like Watching Puppets Who Are Different From Them Get Hurt

Nine and fourteen-month-olds prefer "individuals who treat similar others well and dissimilar others poorly."

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.

Study: Meditation Improves Memory, Attention flickr

Study: Meditation Improves Memory, Attention

Students who did about an hour of "mindfulness training" for eight days subsequently did better on the GRE as well as tests of working memory and mind-wandering.

How to Raise a Kid: Thomas Jefferson vs. Abigail Adams Edition stormwarning./Flickr

How to Raise a Kid: Thomas Jefferson vs. Abigail Adams Edition

Thomas Jefferson pushed his daughter to succeed, while Abigal Adams cautioned her son against failure. What's a better incentive?

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