You’ve heard the racial epithet: All you people look the same. It’s detestable, but a new study shows that the racist observation happens to be true.
—POPE BENEDICT XVI, clarifying his previous comments regarding the Vatican's stance on condom use [via The Associated Press]
Projected amount that diabetes will cost the nation between 2010 and 2020 — 60% of which will be paid by the federal government — according to a calculation by insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. [via Bloomberg]
As effective as the antiviral drugs have been in controlling the spread of HIV, the ultimate goal of any AIDS therapy is to prevent infection with the virus in the first place.
Calling Dr. Obvious! American women are confused about what a healthy body is supposed to look like.
No, you haven’t accidentally clicked on Tuned In. This is still Healthland, but it seems like a good place to look at the latest medical mysteries on the show House M.D., which I have watched since its debut six years ago.
As a senior at Parsons The New School for Design, Ingrid Zweifel was hunting around for a thesis project. She knew she wanted to explore how technology has changed the way people interact.
Radiation, invasion of privacy, skepticism over utility, plain old unfairness — informed by complacency about the risk of terrorism, the reasons for the public’s outcry against the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) screening measures are many. That response can be well explained by the psychology of how people perceive risks — which the government should have [...]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) specifically allows anyone over the age of 17 to purchase emergency contraception regardless of gender, but Walgreens stores in Texas and Mississippi seem to be having trouble enacting that policy.
Number of new gonorrhea infections in the U.S. in 2009, the lowest rate since reporting began in 1941. Rates of other sexually transmitted disease rates continued to climb, however, including chlamydia, which reached a record high of 1.2 million cases in 2009 [via The Associated Press]
