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Misinformation Common Among Women With Breast Cancer

Vaccines are getting American media attention now that Republicans are engaging in misinformation...

Even With Universal Health Care, Mothers Don't Go To Postnatal Check-Ups

For decades, health care costs have been a political topic in America. Advocates argue it is the...

Happy Twelfth Night - Or Divorce Day, Depending On How Your 2026 Is Going

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Blood Pressure Medication Adherence May Not Be Cost, It May Be Annoyance At Defensive Medicine

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Coregasm Revisited: Sex At The Gym That Won't Get You Divorced

Coregasm Revisited: Sex At The Gym That Won't Get You Divorced

Mar 19 2012 | comment(s)

A study by Indiana University researchers on "coregasm" says it has confirmed anecdotal evidence that exercise can lead to female orgasms.

Good news for health clubs everywhere? Maybe.  But it's been darn hard to pin down reliable data on it.  It makes the media rounds - and of course, this site - every few years.
How To Get People On Food Stamps To Buy More Organic Food

How To Get People On Food Stamps To Buy More Organic Food

Mar 19 2012 | comment(s)

Food stamps are not food stamps now, they are the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits - and record numbers of Americans are receiving them.
The Myth Of The Green Young Person

The Myth Of The Green Young Person

Mar 17 2012 | comment(s)

Young people have to be greener, right?  That crying Indian commercial(1) was 40 years ago, we have to have made progress in pollution by now.

Well, we have.  But it's not because of young people. Young people are not more likely to be 'green' than their elders, they are less - in defiance of popular perception - just like right wing people conserve energy just as much as the left, despite the perception that they care less about conservation.
Soylent Pink: It's What's In Your Child's Lunch

Soylent Pink: It's What's In Your Child's Lunch

Mar 16 2012 | comment(s)

In our modern culture, we have both the politicization of science and the scientization of politics. They sound similar but the goals are different - the first obviously seeks to inject political agendas into science while the second seeks to make a political objective seem more rational by mapping it to a science topology.
Social Media Intolerance: Liberals Far More Likely To Unfriend Opposing Views

Social Media Intolerance: Liberals Far More Likely To Unfriend Opposing Views

Mar 15 2012 | comment(s)

People on the left - to international readers they go under the umbrella of 'liberals' in America, but run the gamut from social authoritarian progressives to activists to freedom-loving liberals in the traditional sense - are a lot less concerned about tolerance and diversity when it comes to differing viewpoints.
Science Hysteria - Cell Phone Use During Pregnancy May Cause ADD In Babies

Science Hysteria - Cell Phone Use During Pregnancy May Cause ADD In Babies

Mar 15 2012 | comment(s)

Like vaccines and autism or genetically modified potatoes and immune systems or DDT causing cancer, some myths stick around so long they become truth despite any evidence - and cell phone radiation may be on that same track.

Yale School of Medicine researchers are not immune to jumping on the pop culture bandwagon.  It's easy if you just want to find something vague like Attention Deficit Disorder. In an experiment, they exposed pregnant mice to radiation from a cell phone placed on an active phone call for the duration of the trial. The control group of mice was kept under the same conditions but with the phone deactivated.