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- Why does alcohol give you the munchies?
Friday - 08/17/2018 - 04:36 AMIf you're like many people, the more you drink, the more you eat.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - NYU makes tuition free for all medical students
Thursday - 08/16/2018 - 02:59 PMNew York University will offer a scholarship that covers tuition to every new, current and future medical student, it said Thursday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US drug overdose deaths rose 7% in 2017 and doubled over a decade, CDC reports
Thursday - 08/16/2018 - 01:18 PMMore than 72,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2017, up nearly 7% from 2016, according to preliminary data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Florida's toxic algae problem: 'Red tide' and 'green slime'
Thursday - 08/16/2018 - 04:26 AMFlorida is dealing with a toxic algae problem on multiple fronts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'What did we do?' Families struggle with anxiety over chemicals in tap water
Thursday - 08/16/2018 - 04:37 AMWhen Parchment, Michigan, learned that its tap water had the contaminant PFAS at up to 200 times federally recommended levels, the city and state immediately took action.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Thyroid medication recalled due to risk of impurities
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 03:27 PMThyroid medications recalled voluntarily by manufacturer after FDA issues warning to Chinese manufacturing supplier.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How to design a school in the era of mass shootings
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 08:45 AMFor school designers and architects, the current debate about how to make schools safer focuses too much on add-on measures.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Unsafe levels of a weed killer chemical in oat products, report says
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 04:46 AMSome types of oat cereals, oatmeal, granola and snack bars contain higher levels of a chemical found in the weed killer Roundup than what the Environmental Working Group considers safe, according to a report released Wednesday by the advocacy group.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - When insurance wouldn't pay, parents funded cancer patient's lifesaving treatment
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 04:28 AMKate Weissman's parents paid $95,000 for her cervical cancer treatment after her insurer denied coverage. She's now cancer-free.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Can 'detox teas' like Teami help you lose weight?
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 06:11 AMThey call her "Cardi Bardi, banging body / Spicy mami, hot tamale" -- and she's got an image to maintain.
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- Low and high carb diets increase risk of early death, study finds
Friday - 08/17/2018 - 05:07 AMA low-carb or high-carb diet raises your risk of death, a new study suggests, with people eating the food staple in moderation seeing the greatest benefits to their health.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - First generic EpiPen gets FDA approval
Thursday - 08/16/2018 - 02:21 PMThe US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced the approval of the first generic version of EpiPen.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Life expectancy drops in the US and the UK, rises in Australia, a new study finds
Thursday - 08/16/2018 - 10:36 AMLife expectancy fell across the majority of high-income countries, signaling a collective and simultaneous decline among affluent nations for the first time in decades, a new study finds.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FDA warns of pet owners using animals to get opioids
Thursday - 08/16/2018 - 04:55 AMThe US Food and Drug Administration has raised alarm about one way people might access opioids to misuse and abuse: their pets.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - At least 107 measles cases confirmed across 21 states
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 04:00 PMMore than 100 cases of measles have been diagnosed this year in 21 states and the District of Columbia, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Over 20 people overdosed in one New Haven park today
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 04:47 PMAs New Haven Fire Chief John Alston Jr.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A teacher battling cancer ran out of sick days. Colleagues gave theirs.
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 08:57 PMThe chemotherapy dripped through a catheter in his chest.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How to build a better butt
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 04:43 AMAs a 48-year-old, fairly fit, working mother of two young boys (I had both kids in my 40s), I try to avoid mirrors as much as possible when I'm in a bathing suit.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Elephants rarely get cancer. Here's why this matters to humans
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 11:03 AMYou'd think elephants would be getting cancer left and right: They are giants of the animal kingdom and have trillions more cells than humans -- cells that, in theory, could turn into cancer over their decades-long lifespans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Historic face transplant gives suicide survivor a 'second chance'
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 07:01 AMAs Katie Stubblefield brushed her fingers across her face, she could feel the wound.
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- The man bringing rap music to the deaf community
Friday - 08/17/2018 - 04:47 AMAs A$AP Rocky's "Praise the Lord" begins blaring through the speaker, Matt Maxey smiles. "Turn it up," he says, pointing his finger to the sky. Maxey is animated, kinetic. But he isn't just dancing; he's bringing the song to life.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why pancreatic cancer is so deadly
Thursday - 08/16/2018 - 02:03 PMPancreatic cancer is the third-leading cause of death from cancer in the United States, after lung and colorectal cancers
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why pancreatic cancer is so deadly
Thursday - 08/16/2018 - 02:47 PMPancreatic cancer is the third-leading cause of death from cancer in the United States, after lung and colorectal cancers
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How a vegan diet can change your body
Thursday - 08/16/2018 - 04:27 AMVeganism, the plant-based diet which shuns meat and dairy, is having its time in the sun. Since 2008, there has been a 350% increase in the number of self-described vegans in the UK alone.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Over 20 people overdosed in one New Haven park today
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 02:47 PMAs New Haven Fire Chief John Alston Jr.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A contact lens was embedded in woman's eyelid for 28 years
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 01:21 PMA British woman assumed that her rigid contact lens was lost decades ago during a badminton injury, but it was found embedded in her eyelid.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How to design a school in the era of mass shootings
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 08:47 AMFor school designers and architects, the current debate about how to make schools safer focuses too much on add-on measures.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Violent crime is like infectious disease -- we can stop it spreading
Wednesday - 08/15/2018 - 04:31 AMIn the 1980s and early 1990s, American epidemiologist Gary Slutkin was in Somalia, one of six doctors working across 40 refugee camps containing a million people.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 41 deaths from Ebola in Congo, health officials 'worried'
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 09:53 AMFifty-seven cases of Ebola have been identified in the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, WHO said Tuesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Can 'detox teas' like Teami help you lose weight?
Tuesday - 08/14/2018 - 08:47 AMThey call her "Cardi Bardi, banging body / Spicy mami, hot tamale" -- and she's got an image to maintain.
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