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At What Ages Does Loneliness Peak? Why Your Wisdom Score May Matter
What are the questions that comprise the San Diego Wisdom Scale?
What This New 500 Women In Medicine Initiative Aims To Do
Five medical students are helping change medicine not just for women but for everyone.
Need Some Love? Here Are Robot Pets That Use AI To Mimic Emotions
Watch out puppies and kittens. You may have some competition. They are called Lovots.
FDA: Why You Should Not Use Baby Teething Jewelry Like Bracelets And Necklaces
This certainly is not the first FDA warning about teething products. Remember toxic belladonna in homeopathic remedies and benzocaine in over-the-counter gels, sprays, ointments, solutions and lozenges?
FDA Warns About What Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics May Do To Your Aorta
This is not the first FDA warning about fluoroquinolones, a class of antibiotics that includes ciprofloxacin (otherwise known as Cipro) and levofloxacin (otherwise known as Levoquin).
Study: Christmas Eve May Be When Your Risk For Heart Attacks Is Highest
These are the days and time of day when the rates of myocardial infarction were highest, according to a study from Sweden.
How Dirty Is That Stethoscope? There Is Bacteria That Can Cause Disease
This study also evaluated whether cleaning stethoscopes with hydrogen peroxide wipes, alcohol swabs, or bleach wipes was enough to get rid of unwanted bacterial groupies.
CDC: Raw Cookie Dough? Why You Should Just Say No
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued some warnings for the Holiday Season.
Michael Bloomberg: Here Is $50 Million To Address The Opioid Crisis
For the third year in a row, U.S. life expectancy has dropped. Overdose rates jumped by 9.6% from 2016 to 2017. Here is what Bloomberg Philanthropies’ new investment will do.
This Coughed-Up Blood Clot Shaped Like A Lung Tree Went Viral
This entire blood clot was coughed up by a 36-year old male patient at UCSF.
