Don't equate open plans with open minds.

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Submitted on November 27th 2016 by Appaloosa

WATCH: It’s called “marijuana on steroids.” And it comes with a THC concentration far beyond anything a run-of-the-mill joint would offer. “Shatter” is a potent form of marijuana. It’s a relatively new and easy to obtain drug. But one that has emergency psychiatrists worried. Mary Griffin reports. “Here’s a nice one. This is a half gram …

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Submitted on November 22nd 2016 by wyrwolf

We got an early peak at the numbers from a new study of brain injuries in an American prison, and they aren’t pretty. By Nick Keppler.

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Submitted on November 26th 2016 by AdelleChattre

Scientists say a new vaccine against HIV, to be tested in a trial to be launched in South Africa this week, could be "the final nail in the coffin" for the disease if it is successful.

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Submitted on November 27th 2016 by jcscher with 1 comments

Lifestyle differences such as diet may account for the diverging trends.

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Submitted on November 23rd 2016 by Gozzin

Are we fighting thousands of years of evolutionary history and the best interests of our bodies when we sit all day?

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Submitted on November 26th 2016 by gladsdotter

A Biofabrication Institute that will image, model and manufacture 3D patient-specific tissues under one roof was announced at the Herston Health Precinct on Monday and will be the first of its kind in Australia.

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Submitted on November 26th 2016 by drunkenninja

This mental disorder gives us a unique insight into the digital age.

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Submitted on November 25th 2016 by gladsdotter

The beautiful and otherworldly development of the human embryo has been revealed in unprecedented detail in an interactive three-dimensional atlas. The digital models, built by a team of scientists in the Netherlands, took around 45,000 hours to produce and offer researchers an unparalleled glimpse into the first eight weeks of human development.

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Submitted on November 26th 2016 by zyery with 1 comments

“Compassion is not sitting in your room; it’s actually very active and engaging,” a senior disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh says.

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Submitted on November 27th 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

Boxers know they risk injury in the ring. But there’s a more insidious danger they don’t often talk about: the long-term brain damage that repeated blows to the head can cause. Lyra McKee meets the families who are breaking the silence.

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Submitted on November 24th 2016 by gladsdotter

Thousands of people living with degenerative conditions such as dementia, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis (MS) are losing part or all of their disability benefits after being reassessed. Wendy Mitchell, who has early onset dementia, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme how her benefits have stopped following a reassessment, despite her belief that her condition has got worse.

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Submitted on November 22nd 2016 by jedlicka

In a discovery that will give nutritionists the shivers, a Japanese scientist has discovered that consuming ice cream for breakfast improves a person's alertness and mental performance.

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Submitted on November 23rd 2016 by Appaloosa with 3 comments

Spoiler alert: this article contains sensitive information about the existence of Santa Claus. Children may wish to look away now. Parents, though, are being urged to re-consider the ethics of the great Santa Claus lie. In an article published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry, two psychologists have raised the spectre of children’s moral compass being permanently thrown off-kilter by what is normally considered a magical part of the Christmas tradition.

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Submitted on November 25th 2016 by yuriburi

As Donald Trump promises new restrictions on abortion, emails reveal the desperation of women who have no place to go to end unwanted pregnancies. By Molly Redden.

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When a woman gets her genome sequenced, questions about privacy arise for her identical twin sister. By Emily Mullin.

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Submitted on November 24th 2016 by AdelleChattre

Mental disorders and physical diseases frequently go hand in hand. For the first time, psychologists at the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have identified temporal patterns in young people: arthritis and diseases of the digestive system are more common after depression, while anxiety disorders tend to be followed by skin diseases.

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Submitted on November 25th 2016 by wildcard

There are two kinds of suffering: the patient wrestling with more than he or she can endure. And the family watching, unable to help and also at the mercy of the medical staff. By Pete Dexter, Jeff Nale.

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Submitted on November 27th 2016 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments

Take a quick glance at the annals of literature and you can find madness in bucketloads. But “madness”, in the terms dictated by this rich literary history, bears no real relation to the objective reality of mental illness. The day to day business of mental illness is hard, boring and unrewarding, and though it can certainly provide benefits – increased empathy for other people’s pain, an ability to withstand intense periods of suffering – it rarely offers profound revelations about the human condition.

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Submitted on November 25th 2016 by gladsdotter

“You have to be very careful when you select and use aloe products.”

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Submitted on November 22nd 2016 by sjvn with 1 comments