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vox.com May 24, 2019
The absurdly high cost of insulin, explained

When inventor Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives.
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theatlantic.com May 24, 2019
How a Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old Into a Rap Legend

The story of Dr. Rapp Dr. Sherman Hershfield woke up one morning and was surprised to find himself behind the wheel of his car. Somewhere between his Beverly Hills apartment and his practice in the San Fernando Valley, the silver-haired physician had blacked out.
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cognitiontoday.com May 25, 2019
You Procrastinate Because Of Emotions, Not Laziness. Regulate Them To Stop Procrastinating!

There are two trains of thought – One leads to procrastination and one leads to motivation. And somewhere in between, there is a junction called anxiety. Let’s first look at the procrastination train of thought (at least that’s going somewhere, amirite?).
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theguardian.com May 23, 2019
The science of sex: what happens to our bodies when we're aroused?

Sex is the most talked-about, joked about, thought-about issue in our culture. Every grown adult is expected to know how to do it, but beyond the basic mechanics we’re not taught about it and fiction is coy.
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cnn.com May 23, 2019
Thousands of cancer diagnoses tied to a poor diet, study finds

Your diet may have more impact on your cancer risk than you might think, a new study has found.
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theguardian.com May 22, 2019
Is modern life poisoning me? I took the tests to find out

Sitting on a plastic chair in a small office, I’m wearing medical scrubs rolled up to my knees and I have an X-ray machine strapped to my shin. The machine is scanning my bones for lead as an expert monitors readings streaming on to a screen.
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menshealth.com May 25, 2019
The 14 Easiest Ways to Stick to Intermittent Fasting Without Going Hungry

Intermittent fasting is all the rage these days, with celebs singing its praises—most notably the Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman. The diet, which consists of crushing all your food intake into a mere eight-hour window, is said to have loads of benefits, including better sleep and weight loss.
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marketwatch.com May 26, 2019
5 things to cut out of your diet right now to reduce high blood pressure and lower the risk of heart failure

You are what you don’t eat.
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nytimes.com May 24, 2019
4 Women With Lives Scarred by Genital Cutting: Could a Surgeon Heal Them?

PHILADELPHIA — She called it her “deepest, darkest secret,” one she had never even shared with her husband. When Saffiatu Sillah was growing up in the West African nation of Sierra Leone, her clitoris was cut off in a ritual circumcision.
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nybooks.com May 23, 2019
Resistance to Immunity

Not far from the hospital in Edinburgh where I work there’s a graveyard; it can be a calm, if morbid, place to reflect after a tough shift.
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highline.huffingtonpost.com September 19, 2018
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives. It’s time for a new paradigm.
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outsideonline.com January 10, 2019
Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?

These are dark days for supplements. Although they are a $30-plus billion market in the United States alone, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, beta-carotene, glucosamine, chondroitin, and fish oil have now flopped in study after study.
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theguardian.com February 9, 2019
The best thing you can do for your health: sleep well

Do you think you got enough sleep this past week? Can you remember the last time you woke up without an alarm clock, feeling refreshed, not needing caffeine? If the answer to any of these questions is “no,” you are not alone.
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theguardian.com January 2, 2017
The Case Against Sugar review – an unsweetened attack on diet myths

For the last 15 years, US journalist Gary Taubes has been the self-nominated public enemy No 1 of the global “healthy eating” establishment.
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npr.org January 2, 2016
Keep Things Simple For A Healthy, Long Life

I'm often asked for medical advice by friends, family members, even new acquaintances: What about this diet? What should I do about this symptom? What about this medication? People are usually disappointed when I don't share their enthusiasm about the latest health fads.
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nautil.us January 10, 2016
Why You Should Fix Your Inconsistent Sleep Schedule

Travelling induced jet lag isn’t the only thing that causes untimely fatigue.
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allure.com June 17, 2016
This Is What Actually Happens to Your Body When You Don't Get Enough Sleep

3. Your skin may not look as fresh (not to mention those bags under your eyes).
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qz.com October 12, 2018
A diet guru explains why you should eat dinner at 2pm

There have been two main changes in dietary habits from the 1970s (before the obesity epidemic) until today. First, there was the change is what we were recommended to eat. Prior to 1970, there was no official government sanctioned dietary advice. You ate what your mother told you to eat.
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qz.com June 18, 2015
I once tried to cheat sleep, and for a year I succeeded

In the summer of 2009, I was finishing the first—and toughest—year of my doctorate. To help me get through it, while I brewed chemicals in test tubes during the day, I was also planning a crazy experiment to cheat sleep.
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theatlantic.com March 22, 2019
Your Pillows Might Be Killing Your Neck

My body’s preferred way to remind me that I’m aging is through pain. In recent years, my level of consequence-free drinking has plummeted from “omg liMitLe$s!!” to one and a half standard glasses of Chardonnay.
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straitstimes.com May 5, 2016
Diabetes: The rice you eat is worse than sugary drinks

The health authorities have identified one of their top concerns as they wage war on diabetes: white rice. It is even more potent than sweet soda drinks in causing the disease.
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qz.com June 10, 2018
Why eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist

For something that we spend a third of our lives doing (if we’re lucky), sleep is something that we know relatively little about.
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nautil.us July 10, 2014
Can You Die From a Broken Heart?

What happens to our bodies when the bonds of love are breached. Ruth and Harold “Doc” Knapke met in elementary school. They exchanged letters during the war, when Doc was stationed in Germany. After he returned their romance began in earnest.
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newscientist.com January 23, 2019
We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it

AFTER decades of disappointment, we may have a new lead on fighting Alzheimer’s disease.
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fastcompany.com November 29, 2018
Neuroscience says listening to this song reduces anxiety by up to 65%

Everyone knows they need to manage their stress. When things get difficult at work, school, or in your personal life, you can use as many tips, tricks, and techniques as you can get to calm your nerves.
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nytimes.com March 27, 2018
The Highs and Lows of Testosterone

Getting a high testosterone reading offers bragging rights for some men of a certain age — and may explain in part the lure of testosterone supplements.
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health.howstuffworks.com September 4, 2018
Why Socks Help You Sleep Better

If you're one of those people who has trouble falling asleep, listen up. You might fall asleep 15 minutes earlier and wake up far less during the night if you put on a pair of socks at bedtime. To understand why, you first need to grasp the relationship between core body temperature and sleep.
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vox.com March 20, 2019
Nearly all Americans fail to eat enough of this actual superfood

When we fret about the deterioration of the American diet, we tend to focus on the excessive amounts of sugar, salt, and calories we’re now eating. What we don’t talk about: an important ingredient that’s gone missing as we’ve been filling our plates with more chicken and cheese.
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npr.org December 30, 2016
The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline

Being overweight can raise your blood pressure, cholesterol and risk for developing diabetes. It could be bad for your brain, too. He didn't start out studying what people ate. Instead, he was interested in learning more about the hippocampus, a part of the brain that's heavily involved in memory.
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theguardian.com November 4, 2018
A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer

Last month, the Nobel prize in medicine was awarded for two breakthrough scientific discoveries heralded as having “revolutionised cancer treatment”, and “fundamentally changed the way we view how cancer can be managed”.
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consumerreports.org February 28, 2019
How to Take Care of Your Eyes as You Age

It’s natural to worry about losing your vision. After all, three of the leading causes of blindness in the U.S.—cataracts, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration—all become more common as we age.
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nautil.us January 28, 2016
The Man Who Would Tame Cancer

Patrick Soon-Shiong is opening a new front in the war on the deadly disease. For the loved ones we’ve all lost, for the families that we can still save, let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all.
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theconversation.com August 24, 2017
The concept of schizophrenia is coming to an end – here’s why

The concept of schizophrenia is dying. Harried for decades by psychology, it now appears to have been fatally wounded by psychiatry, the very profession that once sustained it. Its passing will not be mourned.
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theatlantic.com April 17, 2019
The Truth About Dentistry

It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think. In the early 2000s Terry Mitchell’s dentist retired. For a while, Mitchell, an electrician in his 50s, stopped seeking dental care altogether.
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wired.com April 19, 2019
You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep—and It’s Killing You

The whole world is exhausted. And it’s killing us. But particularly me. As I write this, I’m at TED 2019 in Vancouver, which is a weeklong marathon of talks and workshops and coffee meetings and experiences and demos and late-night trivia contests and networking, networking, networking.
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newyorker.com January 15, 2017
The Heroism of Incremental Care

By 2010, Bill Haynes had spent almost four decades under attack from the inside of his skull. He was fifty-seven years old, and he suffered from severe migraines that felt as if a drill were working behind his eyes, across his forehead, and down the back of his head and neck.
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theguardian.com October 6, 2017
Why Can’t We Cure the Common Cold?

After thousands of years of failure, some scientists believe a breakthrough might finally be in sight.
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hbr.org November 10, 2014
How to Spend the Last 10 Minutes of Your Day

How much sleep did you get last night? If the answer is “not enough” you’re hardly alone. According to Gallup’s estimates, almost half the people you’ll run into today are suffering from some level of sleep deprivation.
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chicagotribune.com October 3, 2017
Productive on six hours of sleep? You’re deluding yourself, expert says

Getting through the workday on little sleep is a point of pride for some.
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theguardian.com April 29, 2018
This revolution in our understanding of depression will be life-transforming

Depression runs in families, we know. But it is only very recently, and after considerable controversy and frustration, that we are beginning to know how and why.
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theguardian.com October 8, 2018
Sleep: how much do we really need?

The optimum amount of sleep is supposed to be eight hours a night. Why is shuteye so important – and what happens if we don’t get enough? “The only known function of sleep is to cure sleepiness,” the Harvard sleep scientist Dr J Allan Hobson once joked.
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nytimes.com October 25, 2014
The Dangers of Eating Late at Night

ACID REFLUX is an epidemic affecting as many as 40 percent of Americans. In addition to heartburn and indigestion, reflux symptoms may include postnasal drip, hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, chronic throat clearing, coughing and asthma.
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theguardian.com November 30, 2018
Is a cure for Aids within reach?

More than 50 years after it jumped the species barrier and became one of the most devastating viruses to affect mankind, HIV remains a stubborn adversary.
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propublica.org May 12, 2017
The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth — ProPublica

As a neonatal intensive care nurse, Lauren Bloomstein had been taking care of other people’s babies for years. Finally, at 33, she was expecting one of her own.
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nytimes.com November 7, 2018
What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?

The Chain of Office of the Dutch city of Leiden is a broad and colorful ceremonial necklace that, draped around the shoulders of Mayor Henri Lenferink, lends a magisterial air to official proceedings in this ancient university town.
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npr.org October 8, 2018
A Brain Scientist Who Studies Alzheimer's Explains How She Stays Mentally Fit

As a specialist in Alzheimer's prevention, Jessica Langbaum knows that exercising her mental muscles can help keep her brain sharp. But Langbaum, who holds a doctorate in psychiatric epidemiology, has no formal mental fitness program. She doesn't do crossword puzzles or play computer brain games.
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bbc.com November 9, 2018
'Remarkable' decline in fertility rates

There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers. Their report found fertility rate falls meant nearly half of countries were now facing a "baby bust" - meaning there are insufficient children to maintain their population size.
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nautil.us April 16, 2015
Yes, You Can Catch Insanity

One day in March 2010, Isak McCune started clearing his throat with a forceful, violent sound. The New Hampshire toddler was 3, with a Beatles mop of blonde hair and a cuddly, loving personality. His parents had no idea where the guttural tic came from. They figured it was springtime allergies.
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fivethirtyeight.com July 12, 2017
Don’t Tell The Kids, But Bedtime Is A Social Construct

The questions that kids ask about science aren’t always easy to answer. Sometimes, their little brains can lead to big places that adults forget to explore.
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theguardian.com January 27, 2019
‘Hangxiety’: why alcohol gives you a hangover and anxiety

If you are looking forward to your first stiff drink after a dry January, be warned: it may feel bittersweet.
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aeon.co June 6, 2018
A mad world

When a psychiatrist meets people at a party and reveals what he or she does for a living, two responses are typical.
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bbc.com January 11, 2019
The lifesaving food 90% aren’t eating enough of

If I offered you a superfood that would make you live longer, would you be interested? Naturally it reduces the chances of debilitating heart attacks and strokes as well as life-long diseases such as type-2 diabetes.
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qz.com September 3, 2015
It’s probably a myth that we’re not getting enough sleep

We’ve been told that the modern, connected life is taking a toll on our sleep. Compared to previous generations, studies report, we’ve been sleeping less and less every year.
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businessinsider.com September 13, 2015
This nighttime routine will help you be more productive in the morning

Having a nightly routine is as important as your Morning Routine. This way you can get the rest you need, and you will be prepared for an energetic and focused tomorrow.
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nytimes.com March 28, 2019
At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why.

She’d been told that childbirth was going to be painful. But as the hours wore on, nothing bothered her — even without an epidural. “I could feel that my body was changing, but it didn’t hurt me,” recalled the woman, Jo Cameron, who is now 71. She likened it to “a tickle.
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nymag.com May 6, 2014
The Day I Started Lying to Ruth

The streetlights in Buenos Aires are considerably dimmer than they are in New York, one of the many things I learned during my family’s six-month stay in Argentina. The front windshield of the rental car, aged and covered in the city’s grime, further obscured what little light came through.
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propublica.org July 17, 2018
Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates

This story was co-published with NPR. To an outsider, the fancy booths at last month’s health insurance industry gathering in San Diego aren’t very compelling. A handful of companies pitching “lifestyle” data and salespeople touting jargony phrases like “social determinants of health.
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theguardian.com October 12, 2016
Neoliberalism is creating loneliness. That’s what’s wrenching society apart

What greater indictment of a system could there be than an epidemic of mental illness? Yet plagues of anxiety, stress, depression, social phobia, eating disorders, self-harm and loneliness now strike people down all over the world.
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vox.com July 27, 2018
A comprehensive guide to the new science of treating lower back pain

Cathryn Jakobson Ramin’s back pain started when she was 16, on the day she flew off her horse and landed on her right hip. For the next four decades, Ramin says her back pain was like a small rodent nibbling at the base of her spine.
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theguardian.com January 5, 2017
Is sugar the world’s most popular drug?

It eases pain, seems to be addictive and shows every sign of causing long-term health problems. Is it time to quit sugar for good? Imagine a drug that can intoxicate us, can infuse us with energy and can be taken by mouth.
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theguardian.com September 14, 2018
Finally, a cure for insomnia?

We are living through an epidemic of sleeplessness, but the medical establishment has largely ignored the problem. Can a radical new therapy help you get some sleep? We live in a golden age of sleeplessness.
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nytimes.com June 23, 2017
Take Naps at Work. Apologize to No One.

Sign up here to get the Smarter Living newsletter, a weekly roundup of the best advice from The Times on living a better, smarter, more fulfilling life. In the past two weeks I’ve taken three naps at work, a total of an hour or so of shut-eye while on the clock.
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bbc.com January 13, 2016
Can changing your mealtimes make you healthier?

Many people want to eat more healthily but find it difficult to change their diet. So what happened when Michael Mosley altered not what he ate, but when he ate? We've known for some time that altering the time at which you eat can affect your weight and metabolism. At least if you are a mouse.
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economist.com September 16, 2017
Closing in on cancer

THE numbers are stark. Cancer claimed the lives of 8.8m people in 2015; only heart disease caused more deaths. Around 40% of Americans will be told they have cancer during their lifetimes. It is now a bigger killer of Africans than malaria.
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theatlantic.com November 13, 2018
Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?

Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession. These should be boom times for sex.
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theguardian.com September 24, 2017
'Sleep Should Be Prescribed': What Those Late Nights Out Could Be Costing You

A leading neuroscientist on why sleep deprivation is increasing our risk of cancer, heart attack, and Alzheimer’s – and what you can do about it.
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cnn.com March 27, 2019
Mediterranean diet: How to start (and stay on) one of the world's healthiest diets

A diet that's good for healthy weight loss? Check. One that reduces the risk for diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, stroke and some cancers? Check. A diet that strengthens bones, improves brain health and wards off dementia and depression? Check.
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bbc.com December 3, 2018
Why the world is becoming more allergic to food

Around the world, children are far more likely than ever before to develop food allergies. Recent inquiries into the deaths of two British teenagers after eating and highlighted the sometimes tragic consequences.
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theguardian.com April 30, 2019
Busting the myth that depression doesn't affect people in poor countries

For decades, many psychiatrists believed depression was a uniquely western phenomenon. But in the last few years, a new movement has turned this thinking on its head. By When Vikram Patel first began to study mental health, he believed depression only existed in rich nations.
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thecut.com February 15, 2016
Why Your Brain Actually Works Better in Winter

It was terrifyingly cold in New York this weekend, and this cold snap occurred right as we’re entering the postholiday doldrums.
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bakadesuyo.com April 15, 2018
This Is How To Sleep Better: 5 Secrets From Neuroscience

Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. I’ll bet you’re not getting enough sleep. Honestly, I’m kind of cheating — it’s a pretty safe bet.
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newrepublic.com February 26, 2019
Age of Anxiety

Authors have many images to describe distorted mental states, but that of a glass enclosure, which warps vision and sound, is among the most common.
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nytimes.com January 12, 2018
In the Flu Battle, Hydration and Elevation May Be Your Best Weapons

According to the misery map of influenza activity in the United States, there’s a good chance that you or someone you know has experienced, or will experience, the agony of this year’s strain, H3N2.
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wired.com February 18, 2019
The Devastating Allure of Medical Miracles

Sheila Advento was not feeling well. It was July 6, 2003, and her mother’s house in northern New Jersey was filled with people.
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psychologytoday.com January 14, 2016
Shouldn't You Just Go to Bed Already?

We've all faced the dilemma at some point: Should I keep studying (or working) and delay bedtime, or log out and hit the hay? In college, I regularly stayed up until midnight or 1 a.m. studying and writing lab reports, even though my alarm went off at 5 a.m. each morning for rowing practice.
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newyorker.com March 11, 2013
Up All Night

Nathaniel Kleitman, known as the “father of modern sleep research,” was born in 1895 in Bessarabia—now Moldova—and spent much of his youth on the run. First, pogroms drove him to Palestine; then the First World War chased him to the United States.
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nytimes.com March 4, 2019
H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic

Scientists have long tried to duplicate the procedure that led to the first long-term remission 12 years ago. With the so-called London patient, they seem to have succeeded. For just the second time since the global epidemic began, a patient appears to have been cured of infection with H.I.V.
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forbes.com May 6, 2016
How And Why Did Women Evolve Periods?

What is the evolutionary benefit or purpose of having periods? originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.
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qz.com June 10, 2015
Our poor sleeping habits are filling our brains with neurotoxins

We’ve known for some time that sleep is important for the restoration and strengthening specific functions in the brain linked to memory, regulating emotions, decision-making, and even creativity.
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npr.org October 16, 2017
Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In An Underslept State'

The National Sleep Foundation recommends an average of eight hours of sleep per night for adults, but sleep scientist Matthew Walker says that too many people are falling short of the mark. Walker is the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
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vice.com May 18, 2019
This Is What Fish Oil Supplements Actually Do

For centuries, humans have used fish oils, orally or topically, to treat a wide array of ailments, from aches and pains to rickets and gout. The popularity of this supplement has shifted over the years, as have its primary uses.
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nytimes.com September 18, 2015
A Toxic Work World

FOR many Americans, life has become all competition all the time. Workers across the socioeconomic spectrum, from hotel housekeepers to surgeons, have stories about toiling 12- to 16-hour days (often without overtime pay) and experiencing anxiety attacks and exhaustion.
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seattletimes.com December 6, 2018
Rare brain-eating amoebas killed Seattle woman who rinsed her sinuses with tap water. Doctor warns this could happen again

When a 69-year-old Seattle woman underwent brain surgery earlier this year at Swedish Medical Center, her doctors were stumped. Last January, the woman was admitted to the hospital’s emergency department after suffering a seizure.
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nytimes.com March 10, 2017
Yes, Your Sleep Schedule Is Making You Sick

Jet lag makes everyone miserable. But it makes some people mentally ill. There’s a psychiatric hospital not far from Heathrow Airport that is known for treating bipolar and schizophrenic travelers, some of whom are occasionally found wandering aimlessly through the terminals.
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theatlantic.com March 19, 2019
Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris

In 1886, Clark Bell, the editor of the journal of the Medico-Legal Society of New York, relayed to a physician named Pliny Earle a query bound to be of interest to his journal’s readers: Exactly what mental illnesses can be said to exist? In his 50-year career as a psychiatrist, Earle had develope
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thecut.com December 28, 2018
What Deep Breathing Does to Your Body

Breathe in for four, out for eight. For being free and incomparably easy to practice, deep breathing is a pretty miraculous healing exercise: It can reduce anxiety, bring you into the present moment through mindfulness, and even help you remember how to respond to your specific stressors.
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bicycling.com November 4, 2018
Lifting Weights Just Once a Week Can Cut Your Heart Disease Risk in Half

For the longest time, experts said you had to do aerobic exercise for heart health and strength training to protect your muscles and bones.
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menshealth.com December 3, 2018
I'm a Brain Doctor, and This Is What I Do to Prevent Alzheimer's

Despite the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars over the past several decades on the part of pharmaceutical companies, we still don’t have any meaningful treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
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theguardian.com May 6, 2017
‘I don’t know who I am without it’: the truth about long-term antidepressant use

Sarah never planned to take antidepressants for 14 years.
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nytimes.com September 18, 2017
The Best Health Care System in the World: Which One Would You Pick?

This is often accompanied by calls to match the health care coverage of "the rest of the world." But this overlooks a crucial fact: The “rest of the world” is not all alike.
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markmanson.net February 8, 2019
If Self-Discipline Feels Difficult, Then You’re Doing It Wrong

When I was in college, there were some people on the internet who claimed that you could train yourself to sleep as little as two hours per day. Keep in mind, this was back in the early 2000s when we all still believed random shit we read on the internet.
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nature.com March 27, 2019
Why the sexes don’t feel pain the same way

Robert Sorge was studying pain in mice in 2009, but he was the one who ended up with a headache. At McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Sorge was investigating how animals develop an extreme sensitivity to touch.
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theguardian.com December 30, 2018
‘For 30 years I’ve been obsessed by why children get leukaemia. Now we have an answer’

Mel Greaves has a simple goal in life. He is trying to create a yoghurt-like drink that would stop children from developing leukaemia. The idea might seem eccentric; cancers are not usually defeated so simply.
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huffpost.com January 28, 2018
The Real Causes Of Depression Have Been Discovered, And They're Not What You Think

Across the Western world today, if you are depressed or anxious and you go to your doctor because you just can’t take it any more, you will likely be told a story. It happened to me when I was a teenager in the 1990s. You feel this way, my doctor said, because your brain isn’t working right.
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nytimes.com May 14, 2019
Don’t Visit Your Doctor in the Afternoon

Everyone suffers decision fatigue, even physicians. Dr. Linder is a professor of medicine at Northwestern.
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washingtonpost.com May 27, 2016
The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.

For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort, an alarming development that the top U.S. public health official says could mean “the end of the road” for antibiotics.
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macstories.net March 3, 2015
Life After Cancer: How the iPhone Helped Me Achieve a Healthier Lifestyle

I've been struggling to get back in shape after chemo. Since being diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma (Stage IV) in late 2011, my life changed.
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theconversation.com June 19, 2017
Surprising ways to beat anxiety and become mentally strong – according to science

Do you have anxiety? Have you tried just about everything to get over it, but it just keeps coming back? Perhaps you thought you had got over it, only for the symptoms to return with a vengeance? Whatever your circumstances, science can help you to beat anxiety for good.
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nytimes.com August 25, 2018
Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem

The conventional wisdom is that morning people are high achievers, go-getters, while late risers are lazy. But what if going to bed in the wee hours is actually an advantage?
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nytimes.com January 16, 2017
Getting Older, Sleeping Less

Insomnia is like a thief in the night, robbing millions — especially those older than 60 — of much-needed restorative sleep. As the king laments in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 2”: O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee.
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qz.com November 7, 2018
The healthiest people in the world don’t go to the gym

If you want to be as healthy as possible, there are no treadmills or weight machines required. Don’t just take my word for it—look to the longest-lived people in the world for proof.
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nytimes.com August 24, 2017
Hunting a Killer: Sex, Drugs and the Return of Syphilis

OKLAHOMA CITY — For months, health officials in this socially conservative state capital have been staggered by a fast-spreading outbreak of a disease that, for nearly two decades, was considered all but extinguished.
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theatlantic.com April 11, 2019
Why Europeans Don’t Get Huge Medical Bills

Should America just get rid of health insurers? Americans don’t seem to like insurance companies much, even if they’re happy with their health coverage itself.
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scientificamerican.com March 25, 2019
The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says

If the memory center of the human brain can grow new cells, it might help people recover from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), delay the onset of Alzheimer’s, deepen our understanding of epilepsy and offer new insights into memory and learning.
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theguardian.com February 26, 2016
Mental illness is a result of misery, yet still we stigmatise it

It matters how we talk and think about mental health. Get it wrong, and people can end up being misled, or even worse, hurt. Last week the BBC ran a well-intentioned season about mental health that, unfortunately, gave a completely lopsided view of psychiatry.
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vox.com January 29, 2016
I was 35 when I discovered I'm on the autism spectrum. Here's how it changed my life.

One in every 68 Americans are born with autism spectrum disorder, but there could be generations of people who were never diagnosed.
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vice.com October 17, 2018
This Is What Would Happen to Your Body if You Only Ate Fruits and Vegetables

For years, five servings of fruits and vegetables seemed to be the benchmark of a healthy diet. No one was eating enough of them. Then, last year, a study by Imperial College London found that doubling the amount to ten was way healthier and could prevent up to 7.
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nytimes.com September 5, 2016
Researchers Confront an Epidemic of Loneliness

BLACKPOOL, England — The woman on the other end of the phone spoke lightheartedly of spring and of her 81st birthday the previous week. And with that, Beryl’s cheer turned to despair.
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theguardian.com January 4, 2019
Protein mania: the rich world’s new diet obsession

Why we can’t get enough when we already eat too much. By Are you getting enough protein? The question provides its own answer: if you are worrying about the amount of protein in your diet, then you are almost certainly eating more than enough. This is the paradox of our new protein obsession.
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mic.com November 17, 2014
There's a Suicide Epidemic in Utah — And One Neuroscientist Thinks He Knows Why

Living in Utah means packed powder in April, canyoneering in the clouds, snow-capped vistas so vivid they look Photoshopped — and the shortest average work week in the country. So it's not surprising that surveys show how much Utah residents love their outdoorsy, adventure-filled state.
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