Your Pillows Might Be Killing Your Neck
After waking up with a searing pain that radiates down to my shoulders, I hunt for the culprit.
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Rick Bowmer / AP Big Pharma’s Go-To Defense of Soaring Drug Prices Doesn’t Add Up
Just how expensive do prescription drugs need to be to fund innovative research?
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Orlin Wagner / AP American Health Care Is Flooded With Duplicate Medical Records
The lack of a standard labeling system can lead to confused doctors and worse care.
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Matt Winkelmeyer / MG18 / Getty Why Doctors Think a Kim Kardashian Selfie Is Important
A candid picture from the star could benefit millions of Americans who suffer from a chronic skin condition.
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Andrea Mongia / Spectrum Autism Studies Are a Boys’ Club
Including more women and girls in research could transform scientists’ understanding of the condition.
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Mauricio Santana / Getty I Gave Up and Let Instagram Shop for Me
Targeted advertising has turned the platform into the best and worst place to buy stuff online.
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alexkoral / shutterstock The Cost of Not Knowing a Huntington’s Diagnosis
Some would-be parents who might have inherited the fatal gene want their doctors to keep secrets—even from them.
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Pete Ark / Getty How a Measles Quarantine Can Lead to Eviction
Without paid sick leave, workers who are quarantined for health reasons face job loss and worse.
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Julien Pacaud Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris
The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it.
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Edward Berthelot / Getty A Sea Change in Plus-Size Fashion
A new clothing line from the retailer Anthropologie portends more options for an underserved market.
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Seth Wenig / AP The High-Stakes Allure of an Anti-Alzheimer’s Diet
A $20 million study seeks to answer a vital question: What should people eat to protect their brain?
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Billion Photos / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Americans Are Going Bankrupt From Getting Sick
Doctors’ bills play a role in 60 percent of personal-bankruptcy filings.
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sot / Getty In the Future, Everything Will Be Made of Chickpeas
America is finally embracing an ingredient that much of the world has relied on for millennia.
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Liang Weipei / Reuters 7 Biohacks to Master Before Worrying About Other Biohacks
Stay focused.
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Shutterstock Why So Many Babies Are Getting Their Tongues Clipped
In recent years, surging numbers of infants have gotten minor surgeries for “tongue tie,” to help with breastfeeding or prevent potential health issues. But research suggests many of those procedures could be unnecessary.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic How Your Dog Knows When You’re Sick
Dogs can act like illness psychics.
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Mitchell Haaseth / NBC / NBCU Photo Bank ... The Truth About People Who Have No Personality
They actually just keep their opinions to themselves.
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Deyan Georgiev / Manu Padilla / Shutterstock / ... A Popular Benefit of Houseplants Is a Myth
The science is clear: Indoor vegetation doesn’t significantly remove pollutants from the air.
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Jamie McCarthy / Getty There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Real’ Woman
Brands that promise to cater to authentic womanhood still leave out a lot of women.
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Heidi de Marco / Kaiser Health News Medieval Diseases Are Infecting California’s Homeless
Typhus, tuberculosis, and other illnesses are spreading quickly through camps and shelters.
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Yuriy Golub / Shutterstock The People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
“Variety doesn’t really matter to me. I would be perfectly happy to eat the same Caesar salad or peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich every day.”
