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University of Liverpool Faculty of Health & Life … The Practical Nobility of Donating Your Body to Science
A crematory employee explores the many ways our remains can go.
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Enrique Dans/Flickr Engineering Mosquitoes to Spread Health
The promise of transforming flying vectors of dengue fever into preventive-medicine tools
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Rangzen/Shutterstock One Way to Cut Back on Expensive Ambulance Rides
A Colorado town is minimizing ER visits with an urgent-care clinic on wheels.
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Michaela Rehle/Reuters How Hospitals Are Becoming Safer for Children
Rates of physician-induced infections have plummeted in recent years, new research says. But there is still little incentive to prevent them before they happen.
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Remembering the Nazis' Disabled Victims
A memorial unveiled in Berlin this week commemorates those deemed "unworthy of living."
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Frank Perry/AFP/Getty Wine and Exercise: A Promising Combination
Red and white wines showed equal health benefits in new research—among people who move.
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Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty The Food Gap Is Widening
Wealthy people are eating better than ever, while the poor are eating worse.
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Omar Bárcena/Flickr A Shave, a Haircut, and a Blood-Pressure Test
An experimental program is using "barbershop intervention" to bring health education to African American men.
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Rob Stapleton/AP Why Are There So Few Doctors in Rural America?
The rugged lifestyle has its appeal, just not for physicians.
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tanjila ahmed/Flickr If Not D.A.R.E., Then What?
Moving away from "Just Say No" and towards a more nuanced understanding of drug education
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Jakob Montrasio/Flickr 'Going to Switzerland' Is a Euphemism for Assisted Suicide
More and more foreigners are visiting the country's right-to-die organizations, a new study says.
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AP/Shutterstock/The Atlantic If You Have Allergies or Asthma, Talk to Your Doctor About Cap and Trade
The cost of limiting carbon emissions would pay for itself in human health benefits.
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Eric McCandless / ABC Health Care in the Time of Grey's Anatomy
How medical television shows have shaped people's perceptions of doctors and diseases
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Frank Kovalchek/Flickr The Global Geography of Heart Disease
Why cardiovascular health is improving in the United States but falling in developing nations
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Reuters The Danger in Losing Sight of Ebola Victims' Humanity
Treating patients like disease carriers—rather than like people with emotions, families, and cultural beliefs—is a harmful public- health strategy.
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Vox Efx/Flickr The Only Food Poor Americans Can Afford Is Making Them Unhealthy
To make their budgets stretch further, many people in poverty turn to expired, damaged, or processed items.
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Kim M. Smith/Shutterstock Rethinking Hospital Restraints
Thousands of patients are physically restrained every day for their own safety—but evidence suggests that the practice may be ineffective and even harmful.
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Lien C. Lau/Flickr Who Has a Right to Pain Relief?
The legal, medical, and pharmaceutical industries have all struggled to locate the line between analgesia and drug abuse.
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Yuriko Nakao / Reuters Homelessness and the Impossibility of a Good Night's Sleep
For people living on the streets or in shelters, sleep deprivation can lead to a host of other problems.
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Marshall et al., Journal of Transport and Health Do We Look Fat in These Suburbs?
People in dense cities are thinner and have healthier hearts than people in sprawling subdivisions. New research says the secret is in the patterns of the streets.
