Garry Shandling and the Disease You Didn't Know About: The comedian suffered from hyperparathyroidism, a rare and under-publicized condition that can sometimes be fatal.
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What Engineers Can Learn From the Design of the Penis: The mechanics of the erection may have applications for robotics.
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More Than Half of What Americans Eat Is 'Ultra-Processed': And those foods account for 90 percent of U.S. added sugar intake, new research says.
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When Doctors Should Say 'I Don't Know': The quest for firm answers is not what medicine is all about.
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The Religious Roots of Shaming-as-Rehab Programs: The harsh tactics of some unregulated addiction-therapy groups have parallels in monastic tradition.
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What Instagrams Look Like in Food Deserts: Social-media photos can be a rich source of information about the diets of people who don’t have access to grocery stores.
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Reinventing the Toilet for a Healthier City: New models can provide clean drinking water, create fertilizer, cut down on energy costs, and improve sanitation in the developing world.
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Fat-Shaming Doesn't Motivate People to Lose Weight: The cards Overweight Haters Ltd. is handing out to passengers on the Tube aren’t just cruel; they’re ineffective.
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Digital archive of Cornish life opens online - BBC News: A photo, film and audio archive documenting Cornish life is made available online.
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Why an Indian Program Is Training ‘Quacks’ to Stand in for Doctors: Rural India doesn’t have enough physicians—but it has plenty of local, self-styled medical practitioners. Which is better for public health: cracking down on them, or encouraging their work?
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The Foods That Are Linked With Weight Gain
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Study: Stress at Work Is Shortening Your Life: Researchers found that unhealthy workplaces can affect mortality.
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When Diabetes Leads to an Eating Disorder: People with “diabulimia” manipulate their insulin to lose weight, often with dangerous consequences.
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The Political Clout of the Meat Industry: How the $900 billion business has been influencing government nutrition guidelines for decades
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The Crowdsourcing Site That Wants to Pool Our Genomes: A new non-profit site aims to open up genetic data for scientific research.
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Who Controls Diet Guidelines? Industry.: Meat producers showed dominance over nutrition experts this week.
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How People Living at Earth's Extremes Reveal the Genome's Best Tricks: Evolution has sculpted the human genome to cope with Earth’s toughest climates, inadvertently pointing geneticists towards medically important genes.
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