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cbsnews.com December 10, 2018
Groundbreaking study examines effects of screen time on kids

60 Minutes goes inside a landmark government study of young minds to see if phones, tablets and other screens are impacting adolescent brain development If you have kids and wonder if all that time they spend on their smartphones endlessly scrolling, snapping and texting is affecting their brains, y
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theguardian.com December 9, 2018
Pollution and flu bring steep rise in lung-related illnesses

Accident and emergency departments have seen attendances due to lung-related illnesses almost double in under a decade as increasingly virulent flu strains and a rise in air pollution take their toll.
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npr.org December 9, 2018
Why Cancer Treatment Can Differ For Those Who Aren't Married

New research shows that cancer patients who are single receive less aggressive treatment than those who are married. NPR's Michel Martin talks with researcher Joan DelFattore about her findings.
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popsci.com December 10, 2018
The medical community is finally realizing the uterus is more than a 'baby house'

Anatomy refresher: The uterus is the organ in the center of this image, while the ovaries are connected to the fallopian tubes and branch off the uterus on either side. Outside of pregnancy, the uterus doesn’t normally get much time in the medical spotlight.
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nytimes.com December 8, 2018
What These Medical Journals Don’t Reveal: Top Doctors’ Ties to Industry

This article was reported and written in collaboration with ProPublica, the nonprofit journalism organization. One is dean of Yale’s medical school. Another is the director of a cancer center in Texas. A third is the next president of the most prominent society of cancer doctors.
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alexnpress.com December 7, 2018
Case Study of 1

A red ticket-dispenser in the psychiatric department instructs me to take a number and wait until it’s called. So, I do. I am trying one last time to get mental health treatment. At least, that’s what I said two months ago to trick myself into following through on it.
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bunniestudios.com December 7, 2018
On Overcoming Pain

Breaking my knee this year was a difficult experience, but I did learn a lot from it. I now know more than I ever wanted to know about the anatomy of my knee and how the muscles work together to create the miracle of bipedal locomotion, and more importantly, I now know more about pain.
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cbsnews.com December 7, 2018
Woman dies from brain-eating amoeba after using Neti pot with tap water

A Seattle woman died after becoming infected with a brain-eating amoeba. The woman told her doctor she had used tap water in a Neti pot, instead of saline or sterile water, CBS affiliate KIRO reports.
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bbc.com December 9, 2018
Push for more take-up of flu vaccine before Christmas

Public Health England (PHE) is urging pregnant women and those over 65 to get the flu jab, after a fall in take-up compared to this time last year. PHE said it was best to get the jab ahead of Christmas, before flu typically starts to circulate.
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npr.org December 10, 2018
Research Gaps Leave Doctors Guessing About Treatments For Pregnant Women

Jenna Neikirk was nearing the end of her first pregnancy when her blood pressure shot up to dangerous levels. "I started feeling splotchy and hot, just kind of uncomfortable, so I took my blood pressure at work and it was 160 over 120," she says.
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highline.huffingtonpost.com September 19, 2018
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

From the 16th century to the 19th, scurvy killed around 2 million sailors, more than warfare, shipwrecks and syphilis combined.
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npr.org January 2, 2016
Keep Things Simple For A Healthy, Long Life

I'm often asked for medical advice by friends, family members, even new acquaintances: What about this diet? What should I do about this symptom? What about this medication? People are usually disappointed when I don't share their enthusiasm about the latest health fads.
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qz.com November 7, 2018
The healthiest people in the world don’t go to the gym

If you want to be as healthy as possible, there are no treadmills or weight machines required. Don’t just take my word for it—look to the longest-lived people in the world for proof.
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theguardian.com October 6, 2017
Why can’t we cure the common cold?

After thousands of years of failure, some scientists believe a breakthrough might finally be in sight. By The common cold has the twin distinction of being both the world’s most widespread infectious disease and one of the most elusive. The name is a problem, for starters.
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vox.com August 16, 2018
100 million Americans have chronic pain. Very few use one of the best tools to treat it.

When pain settled into Blair Golson’s hands, it didn’t let go. What started off as light throbbing in one wrist 10 years ago quickly engulfed the other. The discomfort then spread, producing a pain much “like slapping your hands against a concrete wall,” he says.
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aeon.co June 6, 2018
The case against sugar

‘Virtually zero.
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straitstimes.com May 5, 2016
Diabetes: The rice you eat is worse than sugary drinks

The health authorities have identified one of their top concerns as they wage war on diabetes: white rice. It is even more potent than sweet soda drinks in causing the disease.
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nytimes.com March 27, 2018
The Highs and Lows of Testosterone

Getting a high testosterone reading offers bragging rights for some men of a certain age — and may explain in part the lure of testosterone supplements.
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artofmanliness.com January 18, 2013
Testosterone Week: How I Doubled My Testosterone Levels Naturally and You Can Too

At last we’ve reached the final post of Testosterone Week and based on the comments from you all, this is the post you’ve been most looking forward to. Today I’m going to share what I did during my 90-day experiment in order to double my total and free testosterone levels.
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theguardian.com January 5, 2017
Is sugar the world’s most popular drug?

It eases pain, seems to be addictive and shows every sign of causing long-term health problems. Is it time to quit sugar for good? Imagine a drug that can intoxicate us, can infuse us with energy and can be taken by mouth.
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nytimes.com January 16, 2017
Getting Older, Sleeping Less

Insomnia is like a thief in the night, robbing millions — especially those older than 60 — of much-needed restorative sleep. As the king laments in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 2”: O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee.
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qz.com September 3, 2015
It’s probably a myth that we’re not getting enough sleep

We’ve been told that the modern, connected life is taking a toll on our sleep. Compared to previous generations, studies report, we’ve been sleeping less and less every year.
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theatlantic.com January 26, 2018
The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer's

In recent years, Alzheimer’s disease has occasionally been referred to as “type 3” diabetes, though that moniker doesn’t make much sense. After all, though they share a problem with insulin, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, and type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease caused by diet.
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theatlantic.com December 9, 2016
How to Sleep

Should you drink more coffee? Should you take melatonin? Can you train yourself to need less sleep? A physician’s guide to sleep in a stressful age. During residency, I worked hospital shifts that could last 36 hours, without sleep, often without breaks of more than a few minutes.
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aeon.co June 6, 2018
Where pain lives

For patient after patient seeking to cure chronic back pain, the experience is years of frustration. Whether they strive to treat their aching muscles, bones and ligaments through physical therapy, massage or rounds of surgery, relief is often elusive – if the pain has not been made even worse.
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qz.com June 18, 2015
I once tried to cheat sleep, and for a year I succeeded

In the summer of 2009, I was finishing the first—and toughest—year of my doctorate. To help me get through it, while I brewed chemicals in test tubes during the day, I was also planning a crazy experiment to cheat sleep.
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nytimes.com October 25, 2014
The Dangers of Eating Late at Night

ACID REFLUX is an epidemic affecting as many as 40 percent of Americans. In addition to heartburn and indigestion, reflux symptoms may include postnasal drip, hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, chronic throat clearing, coughing and asthma.
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theguardian.com January 2, 2017
The Case Against Sugar review – an unsweetened attack on diet myths

For the last 15 years, US journalist Gary Taubes has been the self-nominated public enemy No 1 of the global “healthy eating” establishment.
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theguardian.com September 24, 2017
'Sleep should be prescribed': what those late nights out could be costing you

Matthew Walker has learned to dread the question “What do you do?” At parties, it signals the end of his evening; thereafter, his new acquaintance will inevitably cling to him like ivy.
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nytimes.com March 10, 2017
Yes, Your Sleep Schedule Is Making You Sick

Jet lag makes everyone miserable. But it makes some people mentally ill. There’s a psychiatric hospital not far from Heathrow Airport that is known for treating bipolar and schizophrenic travelers, some of whom are occasionally found wandering aimlessly through the terminals.
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nautil.us January 10, 2016
Why You Should Fix Your Inconsistent Sleep Schedule

Travelling induced jet lag isn’t the only thing that causes untimely fatigue.
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nytimes.com June 1, 2013
The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill

See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com.MERRICK, N.Y.
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qz.com June 20, 2015
How successful people beat stress

This post originally appeared at LinkedIn. Follow the author here. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe they can make things happen and those who believe things happen to them.
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bakadesuyo.com April 15, 2018
This Is How To Sleep Better: 5 Secrets From Neuroscience

Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. I’ll bet you’re not getting enough sleep. Honestly, I’m kind of cheating — it’s a pretty safe bet.
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nytimes.com August 16, 2017
A Start-Up Suggests a Fix to the Health Care Morass

WINFIELD, Kan. — If you watched the drama in Washington last month, you may have come away with the impression that the American health care system is a hopeless mess.
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lifehacker.com
How Can I Fall Asleep Faster?

The latest sleep research has revealed a good night's rest is more important than we ever thought. Sleep doesn't just reinforce memories and make you feel alert the next day—it flushes dangerous proteins from your brain, maintaining your mental health into old age.
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theatlantic.com January 12, 2015
Joint Pain, From the Gut

Doctors aren’t entirely sure what triggers rheumatoid arthritis, a disease in which the body turns on itself to attack the joints, but an emerging body of research is focusing on a potential culprit: the bacteria that live in our intestines.
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nautil.us July 10, 2014
Can You Die From a Broken Heart?

What happens to our bodies when the bonds of love are breached. Ruth and Harold “Doc” Knapke met in elementary school. They exchanged letters during the war, when Doc was stationed in Germany. After he returned their romance began in earnest.
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wellandgood.com November 7, 2018
Get rid of a headache in 10 seconds flat—then ponder why you’re just now learning this trick

Nothing like a massive headache popping up out of nowhere to ruin an otherwise good day, right? One second you’re just minding your own business, and the next the pounding is so intense that you might as well just forget about trying to get through your to-do list. All hope isn’t lost, though.
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nytimes.com September 18, 2017
The Best Health Care System in the World: Which One Would You Pick?

This is often accompanied by calls to match the health care coverage of "the rest of the world." But this overlooks a crucial fact: The “rest of the world” is not all alike.
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well.blogs.nytimes.com June 17, 2013
Cheating Ourselves of Sleep

Think you do just fine on five or six hours of shut-eye? Chances are, you are among the many millions who unwittingly shortchange themselves on sleep. Research shows that most people require seven or eight hours of sleep to function optimally.
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chicagotribune.com October 3, 2017
Productive on six hours of sleep? You’re deluding yourself, expert says

Getting through the workday on little sleep is a point of pride for some.
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arstechnica.com November 12, 2015
Single course of antibiotics can mess up the gut microbiome for a year

In a battle against an infection, antibiotics can bring victory over enemy germs. Yet that war-winning aid can come with significant collateral damage; microbial allies and innocents are killed off, too.
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npr.org October 16, 2017
Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In An Underslept State'

The National Sleep Foundation recommends an average of eight hours of sleep per night for adults, but sleep scientist Matthew Walker says that too many people are falling short of the mark. Walker is the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
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nytimes.com January 12, 2018
In the Flu Battle, Hydration and Elevation May Be Your Best Weapons

According to the misery map of influenza activity in the United States, there’s a good chance that you or someone you know has experienced, or will experience, the agony of this year’s strain, H3N2.
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newyorker.com July 7, 2015
Why Can’t We Fall Asleep?

This is the first piece in a three-part series on sleep. Read part two, on sleeping and dreaming, and part three, on wakefulness. Here’s what’s supposed to happen when you fall asleep.
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aeon.co June 6, 2018
When is stress good for you?

Stress pervades our lives. We become anxious when we hear of violence, chaos or discord. And, in our relatively secure world, the pace of life and its demands often lead us to feel that there is too much to do in too little time.
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nautil.us April 16, 2015
Yes, You Can Catch Insanity

One day in March 2010, Isak McCune started clearing his throat with a forceful, violent sound. The New Hampshire toddler was 3, with a Beatles mop of blonde hair and a cuddly, loving personality. His parents had no idea where the guttural tic came from. They figured it was springtime allergies.
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qz.com October 29, 2015
Sugar isn’t just making us fat, it’s making us sick

Children are manifesting increased rates of adult diseases like hypertension or high triglycerides. And they are getting diseases that used to be unheard of in children, like Type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease. So why is this happening?
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nytimes.com January 29, 2018
Preventive Care Saves Money? Sorry, It’s Too Good to Be True

Contrary to conventional wisdom, it tends to cost money, but it improves quality of life at a very reasonable price. The idea that spending more on preventive care will reduce overall health care spending is widely believed and often promoted as a reason to support reform.
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nytimes.com June 16, 2017
Why Fathers Leave Their Children

Millions of poor children and teenagers grow up without their biological father, and often when you ask them about it, you hear a litany of male barbarism. You hear teens describe how their dad used to beat up their mom, how an absent father had five kids with different women and abandoned them all.
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nymag.com May 6, 2014
The Day I Started Lying to Ruth

The streetlights in Buenos Aires are considerably dimmer than they are in New York, one of the many things I learned during my family’s six-month stay in Argentina. The front windshield of the rental car, aged and covered in the city’s grime, further obscured what little light came through.
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nytimes.com January 29, 2018
The Connection Between Retiring Early and Living Longer

Research shows a link, but it isn’t retirement itself that leads to a longer life, but what you do in retirement. You may not need another reason to retire early, but I’ll give you one anyway: It could lengthen your life.
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theguardian.com April 29, 2018
This revolution in our understanding of depression will be life-transforming

Depression runs in families, we know. But it is only very recently, and after considerable controversy and frustration, that we are beginning to know how and why.
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wired.com October 14, 2014
This Man's Simple System Could Transform American Medicine

Katherine Carpenter couldn’t sleep. For more than a week she’d been coughing herself awake every night and then hacking until she retched. Finally, she decided to see a doctor. The physician suspected bronchitis and wrote Carpenter a prescription for heavy-duty cough medicine.
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nytimes.com June 23, 2017
Take Naps at Work. Apologize to No One.

Sign up here to get the Smarter Living newsletter, a weekly roundup of the best advice from The Times on living a better, smarter, more fulfilling life. In the past two weeks I’ve taken three naps at work, a total of an hour or so of shut-eye while on the clock.
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fastcompany.com August 16, 2017
What Happened When I Ate The Best Brain Foods For A Week

We know that there is a strong connection between your physical health and work performance. I thought I was doing pretty well. I consider myself a pretty healthy person: I try to run one half marathon a year, and exercise four or five times a week.
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wired.com July 1, 2017
Forget the Blood of Teens. This Pill Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel a Pop

Nir Barzilai has a plan. It’s a really big plan that might one day change medicine and health care as we know it. Its promise: extending our years of healthy, disease-free living by decades. And Barzilai knows about the science of aging.
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theguardian.com February 21, 2018
The town that’s found a potent cure for illness – community

It could, if the results stand up, be one of the most dramatic medical breakthroughs of recent decades. It could transform treatment regimes, save lives, and save health services a fortune. Is it a drug? A device? A surgical procedure? No, it’s a newfangled intervention called community.
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grubstreet.com March 19, 2018
The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right

It’s beyond strange that so many humans are clueless about how they should feed themselves. Every wild species on the planet knows how to do it; presumably ours did, too, before our oversized brains found new ways to complicate things.
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businessinsider.com November 14, 2017
Keeping these 12 plants in your home can improve your health — and they're almost impossible to kill

Eating plants isn't the only way to reap their benefits. Science has shown that keeping a simple houseplant can do wonders for your health.
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theguardian.com February 26, 2016
Mental illness is a result of misery, yet still we stigmatise it

It matters how we talk and think about mental health. Get it wrong, and people can end up being misled, or even worse, hurt. Last week the BBC ran a well-intentioned season about mental health that, unfortunately, gave a completely lopsided view of psychiatry.
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splinternews.com February 9, 2018
How People Die in America

Last week I published a long story about my near-fatal bacterial infection six months ago, and the material benefits that kept me alive. Since the piece ran I have been completely overwhelmed by reader responses.
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businessinsider.com September 13, 2015
This nighttime routine will help you be more productive in the morning

Having a nightly routine is as important as your Morning Routine. This way you can get the rest you need, and you will be prepared for an energetic and focused tomorrow.
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theatlantic.com June 20, 2013
How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?

In the tentative, post-9/11 spring of 2002, I was, at 30, in the midst of extricating myself from my first marriage. My husband and I had met in graduate school but couldn’t find two academic jobs in the same place, so we spent the three years of our marriage living in different states.
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story.californiasunday.com March 28, 2018
“Whatever’s your darkest question, you can ask me.”

A secret network of women is working outside the law and the medical establishment to provide safe, cheap home abortions.
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theconversation.com August 24, 2017
The concept of schizophrenia is coming to an end – here’s why

The concept of schizophrenia is dying. Harried for decades by psychology, it now appears to have been fatally wounded by psychiatry, the very profession that once sustained it. Its passing will not be mourned.
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newyorker.com June 1, 2009
The Cost Conundrum

It is spring in McAllen, Texas. The morning sun is warm. The streets are lined with palm trees and pickup trucks.
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vox.com July 27, 2018
A comprehensive guide to the new science of treating lower back pain

Cathryn Jakobson Ramin’s back pain started when she was 16, on the day she flew off her horse and landed on her right hip. For the next four decades, Ramin says her back pain was like a small rodent nibbling at the base of her spine.
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macstories.net March 3, 2015
Life After Cancer: How the iPhone Helped Me Achieve a Healthier Lifestyle

I've been struggling to get back in shape after chemo. Since being diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma (Stage IV) in late 2011, my life changed.
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fastcompany.com February 23, 2017
Why Former Tech Execs Are Leaving Google And Twitter To Start Health Care Companies

When Stephanie Tilenius, a former senior executive at eBay and Google, decided to start a health-coaching app, many in her network were incredulous. “Everyone thought I was crazy,” she recalls. “Some people loved that I wanted to do something to help others, but a lot socially ostracized me.
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theguardian.com January 7, 2018
Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?

In the 1970s, a truth was accidentally discovered about depression – one that was quickly swept aside, because its implications were too inconvenient, and too explosive.
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nytimes.com September 5, 2017
The Real Reason the U.S. Has Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

The basic structure of the American health care system, in which most people have private insurance through their jobs, might seem historically inevitable, consistent with the capitalistic, individualist ethos of the nation. In truth, it was hardly preordained.
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propublica.org May 12, 2017
The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth — ProPublica

As a neonatal intensive care nurse, Lauren Bloomstein had been taking care of other people’s babies for years. Finally, at 33, she was expecting one of her own.
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digg.com February 25, 2017
Running Is The Worst Way To Get Fit

41 diggs video.vice.com Health Science Video If you want to be in shape, skip the 10K training and sprint — but don't jog — to the nearest weight room.
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outsideonline.com September 19, 2016
Question Everything You Know About Fitness

Over the past two years, I’ve interviewed more than 100 world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show.
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npr.org December 30, 2016
The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline

Being overweight can raise your blood pressure, cholesterol and risk for developing diabetes. It could be bad for your brain, too. He didn't start out studying what people ate. Instead, he was interested in learning more about the hippocampus, a part of the brain that's heavily involved in memory.
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huffingtonpost.com January 28, 2018
The Real Causes Of Depression Have Been Discovered, And They're Not What You Think

Across the Western world today, if you are depressed or anxious and you go to your doctor because you just can’t take it any more, you will likely be told a story. It happened to me when I was a teenager in the 1990s. You feel this way, my doctor said, because your brain isn’t working right.
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motherboard.vice.com December 5, 2017
Volunteering Is the Best Kept Secret for Mental Health

On Edge is a series about stress in 2017. There are horse barns in New York City. A lot of people don't realize this, but I'm lucky enough to have uncovered this secret through volunteering at a therapeutic riding program for children with disabilities.
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vox.com October 31, 2017
Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies

At the end of the 45-minute workout, my body was dripping with sweat. I felt like I'd worked really, really hard. And according to my bike, I had burned more than 700 calories. Surely I had earned an extra margarita.
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vox.com October 16, 2017
The problem is the prices

On September 28, 2016, a 3-year-old girl named Elodie Fowler slid into an MRI machine at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, California.
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mic.com November 17, 2014
There's a Suicide Epidemic in Utah — And One Neuroscientist Thinks He Knows Why

Living in Utah means packed powder in April, canyoneering in the clouds, snow-capped vistas so vivid they look Photoshopped — and the shortest average work week in the country. So it's not surprising that surveys show how much Utah residents love their outdoorsy, adventure-filled state.
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lithub.com April 9, 2018
Barbara Ehrenreich: Why I’m Giving Up on Preventative Care

In the last few years I have given up on the many medical measures—cancer screenings, annual exams, Pap smears, for example—expected of a responsible person with health insurance. This was not based on any suicidal impulse.
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artofmanliness.com January 15, 2013
Testosterone Week: The Benefits of Optimal Testosterone

Welcome to the first installment of Testosterone Week! Based on the reaction from yesterday’s announcement post, this is a subject that many of you are both interested in and passionate about. I’m looking forward to reading your constructive contributions to the discussion.
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splinternews.com April 5, 2017
Why testosterone is the drug of the future

Update 3/12: Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration announced that all testosterone products must be labeled to include information about the possible increased risk of cardiovascular problems as a result of using the drug. The evidence is not overwhelmingly clear.
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washingtonpost.com March 2, 2017
Want a productive work day? Watch what you eat.

Do you have days at work when you feel energetic, inspired and productive, while on other days you feel tired, busy and stressed, with almost nothing to show for your efforts at the end of the day? When you spend several hours a day at work, it pays to make those hours healthy ones for both body and
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nytimes.com December 9, 2018
How to Stop Eating Sugar

If you’re like most Americans, you eat more sugar than is good for you. But it’s entirely possible to eat less sugar without sacrificing much — if any — of the pleasures of eating.
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theguardian.com September 17, 2017
The 'miracle pill': how cycling could save the NHS

Imagine if a team of scientists devised a drug which massively reduced people’s chances of developing cancer or heart disease, cutting their overall likelihood of dying early by 40%. This would be front page news worldwide, a Nobel prize as good as in the post.
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vox.com August 16, 2016
I asked 8 researchers why the science of nutrition is so messy. Here’s what they said.

There was a time, in the distant past, when studying nutrition was a relatively simple science. In 1747, a Scottish doctor named James Lind wanted to figure out why so many sailors got scurvy, a disease that leaves sufferers exhausted and anemic, with bloody gums and missing teeth.
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vox.com April 25, 2017
Is Singapore’s “miracle” health care system the answer for America?

When liberals talk about their health care utopia, they have scores of examples to choose from. Some name France’s high-performing multi-payer system (No. 1 on the World Health Organization’s rankings, in case you haven’t heard). Others point to Canada’s single-payer simplicity.
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aging.nautil.us May 5, 2017
Why Men Don’t Live as Long as Women

Years ago when I was conducting my doctoral research on the evolutionary history of men among a remote indigenous community of hunter-gatherers living in the forests of South America, I came across a man donning a well-worn baseball cap likely donated by missionaries.
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vox.com August 26, 2016
Should you take Tylenol, Advil, or aspirin for pain? Here's what the evidence says.

Welcome to Dear Julia, a weekly column where readers can submit everyday health questions on anything from the science of hangovers to the mysteries of back pain.
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brainpickings.org July 20, 2015
The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease

I had lived thirty good years before enduring my first food poisoning — odds quite fortunate in the grand scheme of things, but miserably unfortunate in the immediate experience of it.
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vox.com June 29, 2017
California decided it was tired of women bleeding to death in childbirth

Kristen Terlizzi woke up on July 16, 2014, in the intensive care unit at Stanford University to the news that the placenta connecting her to the child she'd just given birth to had spread like a cancer through her abdomen.
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fivethirtyeight.com July 12, 2017
Don’t Tell The Kids, But Bedtime Is A Social Construct

The questions that kids ask about science aren’t always easy to answer. Sometimes, their little brains can lead to big places that adults forget to explore.
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theverge.com October 9, 2016
Poop 101: A beginner's guide to reading your own poop

The next time you ponder your poop before you flush, one thing to keep in mind is that your feces passed through a lot of important organs on their way out.
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nytimes.com February 7, 2015
Insured, but Not Covered

WHEN Karen Pineman of Manhattan received notice that her longtime health insurance policy didn’t comply with the Affordable Care Act’s requirements, she gamely set about shopping for a new policy through the public marketplace.
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theguardian.com February 9, 2016
Which country has the world's best healthcare system?

Healthcare is a costly item in national budgets, but who gets the best value for money, and who the best outcomes? We compare the systems in some of the world’s leading countries for healthcare.
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finance.yahoo.com January 4, 2018
Exclusive: What Fitbit's 6 billion nights of sleep data reveals about us

How we sleep is unbelievably important. Getting too little sleep not only makes you feel lousy and cranky, but it’s also linked to obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and even early death. (No pressure.) But it’s amazingly hard to measure our sleep, as a population.
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lifehacker.com
How to Get a Complete Workout with Nothing But Your Body

Everyone knows exercise plays an important role in our general health, but whether its a lack of motivation, the need to travel to the gym, the cost of equipment, or simply know-how, these supposed obstacles often stand in our way. In reality, all you need is yourself.
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theatlantic.com October 28, 2015
How Stress Makes You Sick

The advice, “Stop worrying! Stress is bad for you” is true, but as with a lot of health guidance, its vagueness makes it less effective.
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newyorker.com January 23, 2017
The Heroism of Incremental Care

By 2010, Bill Haynes had spent almost four decades under attack from the inside of his skull. He was fifty-seven years old, and he suffered from severe migraines that felt as if a drill were working behind his eyes, across his forehead, and down the back of his head and neck.
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economist.com April 26, 2018
Universal health care, worldwide, is within reach

BY MANY measures the world has never been in better health. Since 2000 the number of children who die before they are five has fallen by almost half, to 5.6m. Life expectancy has reached 71, a gain of five years. More children than ever are vaccinated. Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS are in retreat.
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nytimes.com March 10, 2017
What Kind of Sleeper Are You?

We each have an inner clock that influences when we feel like sleeping and waking and how tired we are. This clock in the brain tends to run slower than the 24-hour clock tied to the solar day — in fact, depending on genetics, it could be off by an hour or more.
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theguardian.com December 29, 2017
How to stop catastrophising – an expert’s guide

Let us start by considering why some people catastrophise – that is, on hearing uncertain news, they imagine the worst possible outcome. After all, it is not uncommon and those who catastrophise seem to do it a lot. Catastrophisers tend to be fairly anxious people.
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