American health care, in one bill.

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Submitted on October 5th 2016 by hiihii

Ben Stiller is talking for the first time about being diagnosed with prostate cancer at 48. Stiller, now 50, visited the Stern Show on Tuesday morning and told Howard how he and his doctor were able to detect and treat the disease early. "It came out of the blue for me," Ben told Howard. "I had no idea." Had he not gotten tested by his doctor, Ben's cancer could have gone undetected. Luckily, he was given a PSA, or prostate-specific antigen test, in his 40s, despite most medical professionals suggesting that prostate cancer screening not begin until age 50.

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Submitted on October 4th 2016 by baron778

The first American ever to walk the Appalachian Trail in one season was a World War II vet, who said he wanted to walk off the war. Now, a nonprofit sponsors combat veterans to do the same thing.

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Submitted on October 6th 2016 by rti9

Have you ever noticed that time seems to speed up as you get older? An afternoon could stretch on without end, in childhood, and a summer could be almost a lifetime. In childhood, so it seemed, and so it seems now, time was a slow, steady, tick tock. But not so in adult time. We are racing forward into the future so fast that it sometimes seems as if our days are over before they have really begun. If only we could slow time down! To do so would be to extend our lives. Not by making them objectively longer, in the sense of measurable clock time, but by lengthening out and thickening up the present.

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Submitted on October 8th 2016 by gladsdotter

Yesterday, Gizmodo reported that members of the Soylent subreddit and Soylent’s own message board alleged the company’s Food Bars were making them sick. Since then, multiple sources have reached out with stories of Food Bars making them ill, as well as with images showing the identifying numbers printed on bar packaging.

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Submitted on October 9th 2016 by TNY with 3 comments

A member of Poland’s conservative government said the protests have been a lesson in “humility” for the country’s leadership.

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Submitted on October 6th 2016 by LisMan with 4 Related Links:

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‘Tick-induced mammalian meat allergy’ reported in Europe, Asia, Central America and Africa but most prevalent in parts of Australia and the US

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Submitted on October 6th 2016 by kxh

Stop and think for a moment, if you would, about the way you think. Maybe before leaving home this morning, you thought to yourself, Don’t forget to turn off the oven! Or, perhaps, after leaving, you said to yourself, “Damn, I forgot my keys.” It feels natural enough, but in his new book, The Voices Within, Durham University psychologist Charles Fernyhough asks us to consider something most of us take for granted: Why do we think in words at all?

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Submitted on October 9th 2016 by gladsdotter

The 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has been living with prostate cancer for nearly 20 years, reiterated his support for assisted dying in an opinion piece published on the Washington Post on his 85th birthday.

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Submitted on October 8th 2016 by jcscher with 1 comments and with 1 Related Links:

1. Euthanasia and assisted suicide laws around the world. Added by jcscher on October 8th 2016.

Bacteria live in women's breast tissue, and new research has found evidence that a person’s unique breast microbiome can either prevent or promote the growth of breast cancer.

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Submitted on October 10th 2016 by kxh

When people want to believe that the world is just, and that bad things won’t happen to them, empathy can suffer. By Kayleigh Roberts.

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Submitted on October 9th 2016 by AdelleChattre

Bill Gates believes the world’s fight against malaria is one of the greatest success stories in the history of global health.

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Submitted on October 10th 2016 by wetwilly87

Stop tidying. Stop it now.

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Submitted on October 8th 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

Tristan Harris, a former product philosopher at Google, believes Silicon Valley is addicting us to our phones. He’s determined to make it stop.

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Submitted on October 8th 2016 by gladsdotter

Filming in Yemen, we realised the scale of severe malnutrition among the country’s children – by far the greatest cause of casualties in this war.

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Submitted on October 7th 2016 by zobo

It’s inconceivable to most people that this is it—there is no other, underlying condition. The headaches are the condition itself. By Anna Altman.

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Submitted on October 9th 2016 by AdelleChattre

How military technology saved a veteran of a different kind of war. By Chas McCarty.

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Submitted on October 9th 2016 by AdelleChattre

Women are twice as likely to experience depression as men. Now, a study suggests that for women using birth control, risk of depression could be higher.

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Submitted on October 6th 2016 by andromeda

As E.U. and U.S. officials meet in New York this week for the 15th round of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations, a new report warns of how the corporate-friendly, increasingly unpopular deal could "lock in" high drug prices and "help entrench a broken medical innovation system." Specifically, the analysis explains how expanding intellectual property rules and monopoly protections for medicines, which the TTIP seeks to do, is counterproductive at a time when E.U. member states and the U.S. "are facing a looming access to medicines crisis."

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Submitted on October 4th 2016 by Pfennig88

They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America's doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Except these heroes are from America's arch-enemy Cuba, whose doctors and nurses have put US efforts to shame. A medical brigade of 1,200 Cubans is operating all over earthquake-torn and cholera-infected Haiti, as part of Fidel Castro's international medical mission which has won the socialist state many friends, but little international recognition.

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Submitted on October 11th 2016 by messi