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Percentage of female students who plan to attend college right after finishing high school, compared with 61% of male high school students, according to a recent survey [PDF] by the non-profits What Kids Can Do and the Lumina Foundation [via WKCD]
Shift work may be unavoidable, but a new study suggests that it could wreak havoc with hormones that increase women’s risk of cancer.
Getting healthy doesn’t mean having to overhaul your entire lifestyle.
Tuberculosis has been brought under control in much of the world, thanks to prevention practices and powerful antibiotics. But in poor nations like Peru, the disease still kills hundreds of babies and children — and new drug-resistant cases threaten an even bigger resurgence.
