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Scientists confirm a no-brainer: Sex reduces stress
Photo: James Vaughan/Flickr CC Stress is bad, unless it’s sex that’s stressing your body. That’s good stress. LiveScience reports that scientists believe the effects of stress hormones on the brain...
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Praying for a cure? Proximity counts
Photo: Giselle Giardino/Flickr CC Here’s one for all of us who find religion every time we’re worried about our health: As it turns out, for improving health, prayer might work, after all. The key,...
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Bright lights? Big cancer risk
Photo: tourist_on_earth/Flickr CC U. of Haifa scientists have found that LAN, or “light at night,” suppresses the secretion of melatonin in mice, which leads to rises in certain cancers. This comes as...
View ArticleStudy confirms: Facebook is for losers
Self-centered jerks are the heaviest Facebook users, as are those with poor self images: A recent study of Canadian university students suggests the heaviest users of Facebook are narcissists and...
View ArticleChemo nose drops beat blood-brain barrier
Docs in Japan have found that “nose-brain direct transport” beats injection for delivering a brain cancer-fighting drug: Nasal chemotherapy with MTX significantly reduced the tumor weight as compared...
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Healthcare spin control plan vs. ProPublica
Photo: shanelkalicharan/Flickr CC Worried by a ProPublica investigation revealing disgusting and dangerous conditions at dialysis clinics nationwide, PR people for the billion-dollar industry braced...
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Cell phones weaken bones, study finds
Attention, all you hip-holsterin’ cell phone users: Your must-have wireless gadget is chewing away at your bones. Docs in Argentina have found that the electromagnetic radiation from cell phones reduce...
View ArticleHealth insurer taps voyeuristic vein to encourage behavior changes
Folks visiting America’s consumerist mausoleum, the Mall of America, are getting a lesson in dieting from a guy in living in a fish bowl for four weeks: Scott, “The Human Do.ing,” will live at Mall of...
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Got Human Milk?
Well cows do. Flickr: MShades Just when you thought that mankind couldn’t abuse the Bos taurus in any other way, apparently Chinese scientists got bored and decided to insert 300 human genes into a cow...
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Chromosome Readings, $650 to Know When You’ll Die
Don’t let your chronological age get you down–let your biological age determine when to have your midlife crisis! In five to ten years medical researchers believe that a $650 test which measures the...
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