The average American’s smartphone may be pretty dumb about health, according to a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Texas health officials closed the SanGar Produce & Processing Co. plant in San Antonio and recalled all sealed packages of fresh cut fruits and vegetables that had been shipped from the plant and distributed to restaurants, hospitals and schools since January.
Take heart, new moms: you may be feeling overwhelmed, exhausted and distracted, but your brain is actually growing. Especially if you’re the kind of mom who’s been driving your friends and family mad by talking about how perfect, special and beautiful your new child is.
Sheila Reigner was 26 weeks pregnant when she found out she had breast cancer. “You are going to die within six months if you don’t do chemo,” she remembers the doctors saying.
Paying with cash instead of plastic at the grocery store leads to more careful spending and healthier food choices, a study in the Journal of Consumer Research finds.
Exercising self-control isn’t fun. If you’re dieting, for instance, you may easily resist the blueberry muffin at that impossibly aromatic bakeshop you pass by in the morning. You may then have lunch with your friends but just order a small salad (sans creamy dressing, of course). But at some point later in the day, your [...]
Recently the Alzheimer’s Association teamed up with California’s First Lady Maria Shriver and issued The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s, based on a survey of 3,118 American adults about the experience and impact of Alzheimer’s disease. The report found that Alzheimer’s is disproportionately a woman’s problem.
Are 90% of all medical studies wrong — including nearly half of those claimed to be the most reliable? That’s the provocative claim made by researcher John Ioannidis, profiled in this month’s issue of The Atlantic.
Virginia Thomas has done the nation a great service. In calling up Anita Hill, now a Brandeis law professor whose calm but graphic accusations of sexual harassment put the eeew in Clarence Thomas’s Seeewpreme Court confirmation hearings 20 years ago, Ginni, as the Justice’s wife is known, has provided a casebook example of how not [...]
An oncologist who administers chemotherapy drugs in his office has a business plan a little like a general contractor who renovates your house. These doctors buy drugs from manufacturers are wholesale prices, tack on a little extra and bill insurers at retail prices.
