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The Many (Surprising) Health Benefits of Meth

WEBStimulant-related deaths are indeed on the rise in North America—in some regions, meth is even more prevalent than heroin.Surveying drug overdoses in America …

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How Dieting Culture Is Making Women Less Healthy

WEBDiet culture is the inescapable behavioral paradigm we live with in the West that normalizes food restriction and hunger suppression and values thinness above …

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How Urban Planning Can Improve Public Health

WEBDr. Howard Frumkin, special assistant to the CDC director for climate change and health and co-author of Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for …

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The Best Reporting on Mental Health Care Today

WEBHow far have we come? Here are some important reads on the state of mental health care today. • Milwaukee County Mental Health System Traps Patients in …

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Even as Black Americans Get Richer, Their Health Outcomes …

WEBJan 23, 2018. (Photo: Elvert Barnes/Flickr) One of the prevailing views on the disparities between whites and blacks in terms of medical care and mortality is that people of color …

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Health & Behavior

WEBCongressmen and state legislators aim to further regulate hospital management, hoping to encourage better care and finances. New research suggests these laws might not make …

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Being in Nature Makes Your Heart Healthier

WEBA 2017 study from Germany focused on the amygdala, a part of the brain that plays a key role in processing emotions, including anxiety. It found this region was …

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Medical Tourism Is Booming in Mexico

WEBIt's not that health care is so different in Mexico, says Arturo Vargas Bustamante, an associate professor of health policy at the University of California–Los …

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Is Medicine's Gender Bias Killing Young Women

WEBOver the past couple of decades, public education campaigns have gradually increased awareness that heart disease is a major health threat among women. But many of the …

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Treating vs. Healing: Understanding What Wellness Means to …

WEBWe place an emphasis on epistemology and biochemical mechanisms when explaining disease and treatments. In Iran, the emphasis is placed on healing, a concept …

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Nazis and Health Care

WEBIt's true the Nazis had health care. They inherited the tradition from Bismarck, who set up the first national health system in the world (after unifying Germany in 1871). …

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How a Former Financial Consultant Built a Company to Cure Rare …

WEBShe started a for-profit company, Lysogene, and raised millions of dollars. She recruited top gene therapy researchers. In 2011, Ornella received her first …

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Your College Major Predicts Midlife Health

WEB"Compared to adults who majored in one of the most health-advantaged fields—business—adults majoring in some fields, such as psychology/social work and …

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A Conversation With the Psychologist Behind 'Inside Out'

WEBJul 8, 2015. A still from Inside Out. (Photo: Pixar) Pixar has a proud tradition of taking things that are incapable of expressing human emotion—robots, toys, rats, cars—and …

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Searching for Biomarkers to Diagnose Mental Illness

WEBBiomarkers in Mental Health. The biomarker predicted whether or not people had increased anxiety over the next six months. High threat-related amygdala activity …

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Take a Moment to Talk About the Good Side Effects of Birth Control

WEBPills are the most popular contraceptive in the United States, chosen by 27.5 percent of women who use some form of birth control. Oral contraceptives help regulate …

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More People Than Ever Depend on the Federal

WEBEvery year, the United States government provides Medicare benefits to over 55 million elderly and disabled beneficiaries, and Medicaid or Children's Health …

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Are Those Health Care Alliance Cards You Got in the Mail a Scam

WEBObamacare and its muddying of the medical-cost landscape offers newly fertile ground for advocates, entrepreneurs, and crooks. So against that backdrop of the …

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Karl Marx and American Health Care

WEBGermany — where Marx was born — has a health care system that roughly resembles the plan Congress and President Obama have set out to forge. But insurance …

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Mothers and Low-Wage Workers Suffer the Most From Long …

WEBNew Yorkers are atwitter: The city's comptroller released a report yesterday saying New York City has the longest average work commutes of any major American …

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