Michael Douglas told Matt Lauer on the Today Show on Jan. 11 that his “tumor is gone” after a six month regimen of chemotherapy and radiation to eliminate throat cancer — in his case, a tumor at the base of his tongue. But does …
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Prozac Aids Recovery from Stroke
A new study finds that Prozac can significantly improve recovery from stroke— the number one cause of adult disability and the third leading cause of death in the U.S. The randomized controlled trial found that while patients …
How Anti-Shoplifting Sensors Can Remind Us to Take Our Pills
One of the major challenges to getting patients the care they need, according to many doctors, has to do with the patients themselves: they tend not to take their medication as prescribed. In fact, according to the World Health …
CommittedMarriage
What Your Brain Looks Like After 20 Years of Marriage
Contrary to popular opinion, people who say they are still madly in love with their spouses after more than two decades are not crazy. At least, some of them aren’t. And in answer to your next question, apparently they’re not lying either.
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Giffords Shooting: To Kids, It’s As Simple As “Use Your Words”
I happened to be sitting down and eating breakfast with my two older children a few minutes before 8 a.m., Pacific time, on Monday morning. Scanning the front page of The Seattle Times, I saw that President Obama had called for …
Autism, Vaccines and Fraud: Q&A With Author Seth Mnookin
A UK report published last week offered details about how Dr. Andrew Wakefield falsified his 1998 report linking autism to certain childhood vaccines.
Secondhand Smoke Exposure Raises Kindergartners’ Blood Pressure
It’s no secret that second hand smoke poses serious health hazards, but the damage can be especially insidious among children, setting them up for possible heart disease later in life.
Why We Form Societies: It’s Our Big Babies
Newborns may seem tiny to their adoring moms and dads, but most other primate parents would disagree. According to Jeremy DeSilva, an anthropologist at Boston University, human babies weigh about 6% of what their mothers weigh, …
Politics, Parenting, Pot or Psychosis: What Caused the Arizona Shootings?
One Stop Flu Shot: Hope for a Universal Influenza Vaccine
Perhaps there’s a silver lining to last year’s H1N1 pandemic flu outbreak: those who were infected and survived appear to have developed ‘super flu’ antibodies that may help researchers develop an influenza inoculation that could …
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