Presidential hopefuls may want to start channeling Barry White. Researchers found that voters were more likely to cast their ballots for candidates with lower-pitched voices, and tended to rate them as more dominant and more trustworthy.
Is Information Overload Making Us Depressed?
Over on TIME Ideas, Dr. Andrew Weil is prescribing a diet of a different kind.
Q&A: What We Can Learn From the Dutch About Teen Sex
(Updated) Teen birth rates are eight times higher in the U.S. than in Holland. Abortion rates are twice as high. The American AIDS rate is three times greater than that of the Dutch. What are they doing right that we’re not?
First Human Heart Stem Cell Trial Shows Promise
(Updated) For the first time, doctors were able to improve heart function and reverse tissue damage in heart failure patients, using stem cells taken from the patients’ own heart tissue.
Family MattersHeart Disease
New Advice: Kids Should Be Screened for High Cholesterol
All tweens aged 9 to 11 should have their cholesterol checked to help head off cardiovascular disease early, according to new medical guidelines announced Friday.
Is Disease Occupying Wall Street?
Refugee camps, not surprisingly, are rather unhealthy places to be. For one thing, there are the effects of the natural disaster that usually drive refugees to a temporary settlement. There’s also the threat of hunger and thirst
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Study: Religious Folks Have a Sunnier Outlook
In the latest study to link church-going with well-being, researchers find that people who attend religious services regularly are more optimistic and less depressed than their non-religious peers.
Bystander Psychology: Why Some Witnesses to Crime Do Nothing
The grand jury investigation that resulted in 40 counts of child abuse against Penn State’s former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, has raised profoundly unsettling psychological and moral questions about the actions — or …
Picking Up Brain Activity and Conciousness in Vegetative Patients
A cheap, portable device may be able to pick up signs of consciousness in patients who have been diagnosed to be in an unresponsive, vegetative state.
Family MattersParenting
Baby Boom? Moms Eager to Deliver on 11/11/11, the Coolest of Due Dates
Expectant mom Julie Madayag first learned of her daughter’s auspicious potential birth date from an online due-date calculator: 11/11/11, the computer predicted.
Social Q’s and A’s with Times Advice Columnist Philip Galanes
Dear Abby can only get you so far — right up to the 20th century or so. But when it comes to questions about manners in the modern world, that’s the specialty of Philip Galanes, who writes the popular “Social Q’s” advice column …
The Healthland Podcast: Sexual Abuse, Memory and the Painkiller Epidemic
This week on the podcast, we use the Penn State and Herman Cain cases as a starting point for a discussion of the complicated relationships among sexual abuse, sexual harassment, trauma and memory. We also discuss the dramatic …