Susan Schneider Williams describes the final year of Robin Williams's life, as he was ravaged by the effects of Lewy body disease,

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Submitted on October 1st 2016 by gladsdotter with 3 comments

To build a following, narcissism works. Briefly. But if, as they say in this electoral season, you’re looking to “grow your base,” exercising emotional intelligence — expressing empathy, checking your emotions in a bid to avoid conflict, and investing in personal relationships — is a strategy that beats narcissism over the long term.

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Submitted on October 3rd 2016 by bradd with 1 comments

Amnesia is a really handy/cliché literary device and the inciting incident for countless Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but it's also a real, serious affliction caused by major head trauma. Learn how scrambled neurons can permanently alter your memory on this week's QQ.

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Submitted on October 1st 2016 by rti9

The deal to fight the mosquito-borne virus came after lawmakers dropped a controversial provision to block payments to Planned Parenthood for women's health care.

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Submitted on September 28th 2016 by jcscher

Relatively few people are lefties, and it’s a puzzle why. Still, the science of handedness is revealing fascinating insights about you – from how it could change the way you think, to the fact that you might be ‘left-eared’.

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Submitted on October 3rd 2016 by gladsdotter with 3 comments

Stress — on the job and off — has been called a health epidemic by the World Health Organization. It makes us more prone to a host of maladies, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. And it's estimated to kill more than 120,000 American workers each year. It's not just work, of course. It's how we work. Our smartphones tether us to our 9-to-5 jobs 24/7. We're online, all the time. Day and night. Weekday and weekend. Technology, supposed to make our lives easier, has made it a lot more complicated.

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Submitted on September 30th 2016 by zobo

When a team of researchers evaluated the scientific literature on brain games, they found little evidence that the products improve memory or thinking in real-world tasks.

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Beyond being knockout gorgeous, the model Emily Ratajkowski — you might recognize her from Robin Thicke and Pharrell’s video “Blurred Lines” — has a gift for the incisive. After Piers Morgan shamed Kim Kardashian for her internet-breaking nude selfie, Ratajkowski joined Kim for a double-middle-finger topless selfie comeback heard around the world. She wrote about the trials of early adolescence for Lena Dunham; and in an interview that’s now buzzing about the internet, she dishes on how her looks have shaped her life in “an interesting paradox.”

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Submitted on October 2nd 2016 by socialiguana with 1 comments

The Americas are now free of measles, the first region in the world to achieve that goal, the Pan American Health Organization announced this week. The success is credited to the effectiveness of mass vaccination programs over the past 22 years. Yet measles remains a significant problem in other parts of the world, public health officials warn. There were 244,704 cases reported in 2015. And outbreaks could still pop up in the Americas if unvaccinated travelers spread the disease.

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Submitted on September 29th 2016 by everlost

Pedophiles don't get a pass for their sins. But James Cantor's controversial research could explain why they do what they do

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Submitted on October 3rd 2016 by gladsdotter

A Chinese government investigation has revealed that more than 80 percent of the data used in clinical trials of new pharmaceutical drugs have been "fabricated". The report uncovered fraudulent behaviour at almost every level, and showed that some pharmaceutical companies had hidden or deleted records of potentially adverse side effects, and tampered with data that didn't meet their desired outcomes.

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Submitted on October 2nd 2016 by rexall

UK scientists and clinicians working on a groundbreaking trial to test a possible cure for HIV infection say they have made remarkable progress after a test patient showed no sign of the virus following treatment. The research, being carried out by five of Britain’s top universities with NHS support, is combining standard antiretroviral drugs with a drug that reactivates dormant HIV and a vaccine that induces the immune system to destroy the infected cells.

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Submitted on October 3rd 2016 by melaniee

Apps can give you a GP consultation in minutes, but at what cost to the health service?

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Submitted on October 3rd 2016 by drunkenninja

The DNA double helix’s sequence is programmed with the genetic information of every cell. When a double DNA strand breaks, it poses a threat to the cells and, if the break is not correctly repaired, it can lead to cancer. Double strand breaks can be caused by exposure to radiation. When a cell is damaged in this way, it has to decide whether the break can be fixed, or whether it should be removed before it causes cancer. If the decision is made for removal, the cell is killed off by a cellular suicide program called “apoptosis”.

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Submitted on September 30th 2016 by aj0690

The UK’s most common type of food poisoning bug is showing drastically increased resistance to antibiotics, testing has revealed, which could mean the infection becomes harder and harder to treat. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) tested campylobacter bacteria found in chickens sold in supermarkets across the country, and discovered that resistance to certain antibiotics had more than doubled.

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Submitted on September 28th 2016 by zyery

It trains the body, mind, and everything in between.

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Submitted on September 30th 2016 by b1ackbird

When you’re a hoarder, everything “sparks joy.”

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Submitted on October 2nd 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

Researchers are looking at whether mouth bacteria is connected to many other diseases.

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Submitted on October 2nd 2016 by LisMan

An anxious mindset can change the way you view the world in profound ways. But could a simple new treatment offer a way out of the perpetual fear?

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Submitted on September 29th 2016 by gladsdotter

Mylan said on Monday the auto-injector EpiPen pretax profits were higher than it told Congress, according to Dow Jones.

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Submitted on September 28th 2016 by ilyas