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Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning. More »
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Lindsay Abrams is an editorial fellow with The Atlantic Health channel. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times.
Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning. More »
At 18 months, babies who had come into repeated contact with their parents' saliva were 12 percent less likely to have asthma and 37 percent less likely to develop eczema. More »
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. More »
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. More »
Researchers have spent the last decade trying to understand why some people are unable to appreciate music. More »
People who spent 20 minutes under UVA-radiating lamps appeared to experience cardiovascular benefits. More »
Japanese researchers believe they've found an antidote for men's susceptibility to femme fatales. More »
Alternative therapies meant to help us "break the train of everyday thinking" have effects on a cellular level. More »
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Kids living in the U.S. who were born elsewhere are 59 percent less likely to have allergic diseases, but their risk increases with time spent in the country. More »
The obesity rate is 27.5 percent higher in New York City neighborhoods where the greatest proportion of people "like" television on Facebook. More »
It may be that "the tendency to have faith in conventional social constructs" can be generalized both to religion and the medical establishment. More »
Looking at how quickly different animals and even invidual cells die when they're isolated from others seems tell us something about the importance of social ties. More »
Audio recordings made in exam rooms indicate that doctors "operate at an emotional distance" from overweight and obese patients. More »
Participants in a German study did not react well to videos depicting robot torture. More »
How strongly people's mental health and life satisfaction correlated with their proximities to parks and gardens More »
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Earning an obituary in the New York Times is generally a good marker for above-average longevity, as long as that success in life isn't accompanied by fame. More »
