People think juice is good for them. They’re wrong.

People think juice is good for them. They’re wrong.
At first glance, it is reasonable to think that juice has health benefits. Whole fruit is healthy, and juice comes from fruit, so it must be healthy, too. But when you make juice, you leave some of the most wholesome parts of the fruit behind.

May 1, 2017 at 03:13AM
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Hit Eject

Hit Eject
Sari Botton had to fight for the medical help she needed to ditch her exploding uterus.

April 30, 2017 at 06:16PM
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Who’ll Be the First to Meld With the Machines? Diabetics

Who’ll Be the First to Meld With the Machines? Diabetics
The MiniMed 670G is the first FDA-approved biotic pancreas.

April 29, 2017 at 07:58PM
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Wellness, Womanhood, and the West: How Goop Profits From Endless Illness

Wellness, Womanhood, and the West: How Goop Profits From Endless Illness
According to Goop, there are many underreported epidemics sweeping the nation, and you should probably get treated for all of them.

April 29, 2017 at 07:58PM
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Air Pollution In Subway Systems May Be Much Worse Than We Realized

Air Pollution In Subway Systems May Be Much Worse Than We Realized
A new study shows that trains and platforms along the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) 10 times higher rates of pollution than outside air.

April 28, 2017 at 05:41PM
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Desperate Families Driven to Black Market Insulin

Desperate Families Driven to Black Market Insulin
Fourth grader Gabriella Corley is trapped. She has type-1 diabetes and is allergic to the kind of insulin her insurer makes affordable — and her family can't pay for the kind she needs every day to stay alive.

April 28, 2017 at 08:51AM
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Google Is Super Secretive About Its Anti-Aging Research. No One Knows Why.

Google Is Super Secretive About Its Anti-Aging Research. No One Knows Why.
Researchers are puzzled by Calico's stealthiness and say it’s not good for science.

April 27, 2017 at 11:40PM
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Let This Guy Use A Series Of Odd Metaphors To Expertly Explain The Basics Of Meditation To You

Let This Guy Use A Series Of Odd Metaphors To Expertly Explain The Basics Of Meditation To You
Your brain is an orchestra — oh, and also an audience — and, uh, it's littered with anxiety squids and frustration pandas. And there aren't enough chairs for everybody and ... Look, just watch the video.

April 27, 2017 at 07:15PM
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If humans only died from unnatural causes, the average lifespan would skyrocket to over 8,000 years, based on current death rates.

April 27, 2017 at 06:57PM
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Inexpensive Drug Prevents Deaths in New Mothers, Study Finds

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What Would Happen If You Never Got A Cavity Filled?

What Would Happen If You Never Got A Cavity Filled?
What if your mouth is riddled with cavities, and you just never went back to the dentist? The short answer: It would not be good.

April 27, 2017 at 12:36AM
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4 Psychology Experts On Why Alex Jones Is Always Taking His Shirt Off

4 Psychology Experts On Why Alex Jones Is Always Taking His Shirt Off
The only thing Alex Jones likes more than revealing his version of the truth is revealing himself in all his barrel-chested glory. But why exactly?

April 26, 2017 at 11:25PM
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Anthem Threatens to Leave Health Exchanges if Subsidies Are Halted

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Immunotherapy Pioneer James Allison Has Unfinished Business with Cancer

Immunotherapy Pioneer James Allison Has Unfinished Business with Cancer
Why do most patients fail to respond to the newest cures?

April 26, 2017 at 09:07PM
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What Bullets Do to Bodies

What Bullets Do to Bodies
How would the gun debate change if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront everyday?

April 26, 2017 at 06:48PM
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How Much Coffee Is Actually Safe to Drink? A New Review

How Much Coffee Is Actually Safe to Drink? A New Review
The most comprehensive review of evidence on health consequences of caffeine use has just been published.

April 26, 2017 at 02:29PM
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How Much Did Your First Few Months Inform Who You Are Now?

How Much Did Your First Few Months Inform Who You Are Now?
The beginning of your life is precious time, significantly tied to a huge number of competencies and health factors.

April 26, 2017 at 12:00AM
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An Artificial Womb Successfully Grew Baby Sheep — And Humans Could Be Next

An Artificial Womb Successfully Grew Baby Sheep — And Humans Could Be Next
The lambs spent four weeks in the external wombs, and seemed to develop normally.

April 25, 2017 at 10:35PM
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My two-month ride with Peloton, the cultish, Internet-connected fitness bike

My two-month ride with Peloton, the cultish, Internet-connected fitness bike
The future of exercise, or another fitness fad?

April 25, 2017 at 07:35PM
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How Bad is it if I Never Eat Any Vegetables?

How Bad is it if I Never Eat Any Vegetables?
You're not going to die if you don't eat vegetables. But don't expect your life to be enjoyable or as long as those who do.

April 25, 2017 at 04:27PM
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To a Cigarette Maker, Your Life Is Worth About $10,000

To a Cigarette Maker, Your Life Is Worth About $10,000
Why most of the tobacco epidemic remains in our future.

April 25, 2017 at 02:28PM
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The New Era of Suicide Prevention

The New Era of Suicide Prevention
How social media sites like Facebook and Tumblr are focusing their efforts to sophisticate their warning systems and provide help to users experiencing suicidal thoughts.

April 25, 2017 at 02:28PM
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Suicide and the Rural ER

Suicide and the Rural ER
Rural patients struggling with mental-health issues often use the emergency room as their first point of contact with the medical system. But the next step in treatment is uncertain — or nonexistent — for patients without deep pockets.

April 25, 2017 at 02:28PM
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Why We Need To Start Listening To Insects

Why We Need To Start Listening To Insects
To combat malaria, which afflicts hundreds of millions of people ever year, researchers are reviving a field of study grounded in both music and biology: wingbeat frequency.

April 25, 2017 at 02:12PM
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What Living With An Eye Patch In A Big City Taught Me

What Living With An Eye Patch In A Big City Taught Me
At first I was tired of telling every curious soul that cancer took my eye, but then something changed.

April 25, 2017 at 05:00AM
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A Head-to-Butt-to-Toe Explanation of What Happens to Your Body on an Airplane

A Head-to-Butt-to-Toe Explanation of What Happens to Your Body on an Airplane
Nothing about humans flying is natural, and since we've only been doing it for a little more than 100 years, our bodies haven't adapted to the very particular set of stressors we're putting on them.

April 25, 2017 at 01:17AM
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LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how

LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how
What we do — and mostly don't — know about tiny doses of hallucinogens.

April 25, 2017 at 12:18AM
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Common Nursery Products Send Thousands of Children to Hospitals

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Dangerous Drinks and How To Spot Them

Dangerous Drinks and How To Spot Them
Amid the many pleasures of the cocktail world, small dangers abound.

April 24, 2017 at 08:38PM
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Why Are So Many People Popping Vitamin D?

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A Dry Side Effect

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Fatal Malaria in the U.S. More Common Than Previously Known

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Bernie Sanders stands by anti-abortion mayoral candidate

Bernie Sanders stands by anti-abortion mayoral candidate
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders on Sunday stood by his decision to back a Democratic candidate whose record on abortion has drawn fire from many in the party.

April 24, 2017 at 01:52PM
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Cancer Docs Are Burnt Out and Retiring Early, Endangering the Rising Population of Cancer Patients

Cancer Docs Are Burnt Out and Retiring Early, Endangering the Rising Population of Cancer Patients
Cancer doctors are overworked retire early, and attract fewer recruits than other specialties, leaving the rising cancer-patient population vulnerable. Here’s what must be done.

April 23, 2017 at 04:15AM
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How to Find Workplace Harmony

How to Find Workplace Harmony
A psychiatrist has some advice on how to work with difficult colleagues.

April 21, 2017 at 11:39PM
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Why Do You Feel So Tired All Of The Time?

Why Do You Feel So Tired All Of The Time?
Look, we're not doctors or anything, but there are a few common culprits that might be behind your constant sleepiness.

April 21, 2017 at 07:46PM
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Why are the measles coming back?

Why are the measles coming back?
We eliminated measles in the US in 2000. Somebody should tell the measles. Because even though the virus has no permanent home stateside, it keeps getting in — more and more, it seems.

April 21, 2017 at 06:07PM
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Could Be the Thyroid; Could Be Ennui. Either Way, the Drug Isn’t Helping.

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Cycling to work can cut cancer and heart disease, says study

Cycling to work can cut cancer and heart disease, says study
Want to live longer? Reduce your risk of cancer? And heart disease? Then cycle to work, say scientists.

April 21, 2017 at 02:51PM
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How G.O.P. in 2 States Coaxed the Health Law to Success or Crisis

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How Drug-Company 'Benevolence' Silences The Sick

How Drug-Company 'Benevolence' Silences The Sick
For $100,000, Valeant purchased the right to say that it was working hand in glove with the Wilson Disease Association.

April 21, 2017 at 04:18AM
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Why The Menace Of Mosquitoes Will Only Get Worse

Why The Menace Of Mosquitoes Will Only Get Worse
Climate change is altering the environment in ways that increase the potential for viruses like Zika.

April 21, 2017 at 03:17AM
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Here's How You Can Protect Your Hearing at Shows and Not Be a Dumbass

Here's How You Can Protect Your Hearing at Shows and Not Be a Dumbass
Noise-induced hearing loss is forever, and it sucks, but there are solutions out there.

April 21, 2017 at 12:06AM
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'Like A Slow Death': Families Fear Pesticide Poisoning After Trump Reverses Ban

'Like A Slow Death': Families Fear Pesticide Poisoning After Trump Reverses Ban
The administration's rejection of the science on chlorpyrifos, widely used in California's Central Valley, means its use will continue — and Latino residents are worried their children's health issues will worsen along with it.

April 21, 2017 at 12:06AM
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‘Pacemaker’ for the Brain Can Help Memory, Study Finds

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Why America Has Fewer Types Of IUDs Than Other Countries

Why America Has Fewer Types Of IUDs Than Other Countries
The land of choice has more limited options when it comes to contraception.

April 20, 2017 at 01:30PM
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Alphabet Seeks 10,000 Volunteers — And Their Health Data — For A Massive Medical Study

Alphabet Seeks 10,000 Volunteers — And Their Health Data — For A Massive Medical Study
Verily's Project Baseline seeks to establish what "healthy" is.

April 19, 2017 at 10:13PM
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Can Parents Sue If Their Kid Is Born With the 'Wrong' DNA?

Can Parents Sue If Their Kid Is Born With the 'Wrong' DNA?
It's a nightmare scenario straight out of a primetime drama: a child-seeking couple visits a fertility clinic to try their luck with in-vitro fertilization, only to wind up accidentally impregnated by the wrong sperm.

April 19, 2017 at 04:43PM
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Runners peer pressure their friends into running more

Runners peer pressure their friends into running more
If two friends have several mutual connections and one is an avid runner, the other will likely pick up the habit.

April 19, 2017 at 02:28PM
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Psychedelic drugs induce 'heightened state of consciousness', brain scans show

Psychedelic drugs induce 'heightened state of consciousness', brain scans show
Study records what appears to be the first evidence for mind-opening state experienced by users of LSD, ketamine and psilocybin.

April 19, 2017 at 01:30PM
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