Bob CollinsA study of 2 million people found that those who were thinnest were far more likely to develop dementia. Read more →
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Health
She was given only until December to live. But she wanted to play a game for her college basketball team. She did, and then she spent her remaining days raising money for cancer research. Read more →
As you get older, you start to get a little used to the small indignities that remind you that you’re too old to be of much use. Be the Match told me today I’m too old to donate marrow. Read more →
A new survey says nearly 9% of people in the United States have outbursts of anger, break or smash things, or get into physical fights — and have access to a firearm, the Los Angeles Times reports. Read more →
Attention, Alaska Airlines: Cancer isn’t contagious.
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Grantland provides today’s respite from cubicle gloom with this invigorating profile of a man who doesn’t let cancer get him down. Read more →
It seems Americans are occasionally challenged by simple civics. But the notion that voting marks an engaged country seems questionable Read more →
In Massachusetts, this billboard got people all stirred up this week.
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While we take things on Reddit with a grain of salt, we nonetheless are hoping this story of an angry doctor who objected to having to write a note to a patient’s boss is true. Read more →
It’s been a little over three years since I first told you the story of Joel Beeson of West Virginia, whose difficulty getting a liver transplant from a living donor is typical of many in his situation. Here’s an update on how he’s doing. Read more →
For the last 10 months, CBS has been following the experimental therapy, in which a modified polio gene — modified so it wouldn’t reproduce — “wakes up” the body’s immune system to attack cancer. Read more →
Whatever progress Americans have made in understanding and accepting mental illness — and it wasn’t much — has been fairly well undone by the breathless coverage of last week’s Germanwings Airbus crash in the French Alps. Read more →
A little news from the world of football is just what the doctor ordered.
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In La Crosse, spring is a time when a young person’s fancy turns to not stepping on all the needles and syringes on the sidewalks.
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You don’t often hear funeral services start with a tribute to a news reporter, but, then again, mentally ill homeless people who freeze to death alone don’t often get funerals.
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