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Caffeinated Gum: A Dream Deferred
Wrigley revoked caffeine-gum in response to FDA noise. Is this where it ends?
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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
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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.
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Take it easy, be happy alone.
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How labels obscure humanity in mental illness
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Researchers have spent the last decade trying to understand why some people are unable to appreciate music.
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People who spent 20 minutes under UVA-radiating lamps appeared to experience cardiovascular benefits.
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The U.S. FDA announced a plan to investigate and potentially regulate caffeine.
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There is a way to cultivate, not demonize, collaboration between physicians and pharma.
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Nine and fourteen-month-olds prefer "individuals who treat similar others well and dissimilar others poorly."
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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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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.
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Thomas Jefferson pushed his daughter to succeed, while Abigal Adams cautioned her son against failure. What's a better incentive?
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