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When to Do Surgery on a Child With 'Both' Genitalia stephendepolo/Flickr

When to Do Surgery on a Child With 'Both' Genitalia

Understanding the case of an intersex child whose adoptive parents claim was robbed of his genitals, and of the right to decide what should happen to his body

Study: Happiness Comes Easier With Upbeat Music Toby Melville/Reuters

Study: Happiness Comes Easier With Upbeat Music

Resarch subjects were better able to will themselves into positive moods while listening to rousing symphonies.

The Michael J. Fox Show, Life With Parkinson's NBC

The Michael J. Fox Show, Life With Parkinson's

Write a show about a family man with an incurable neurodegenerative condition, and make it funny and not manipulative. Okay, go.

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

Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier Nick Adams/Reuters

Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier

Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.

How to Walk Away Phineas H/Flickr

How to Walk Away

The psychology of lost causes

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.

Study: People Test Positive for Smoke Exposure After Staying in Non-Smoking Hotel Rooms bradleygee/Flickr

Study: People Test Positive for Smoke Exposure After Staying in Non-Smoking Hotel Rooms

Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning.

Why Babies Shouldn't Suck on Honey flickr

Why Babies Shouldn't Suck on Honey

Possibilities include floppy baby syndrome and death, but honey-pacifiers still exist.

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.

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