Schizophrenia drugs in kids cause weight gain

Schizophrenia drugs, increasingly prescribed to children with bipolar disorder and other conditions, can cause youngsters to experience rapid weight gain, according to a new study.
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What Does a Smart Brain Look Like?: Inner Views Show How We Think (preview)

We all know someone who is not as smart as we are–and someone who is smarter. At the same time, we all know people who are better or worse than we are in a particular area or task, say, remembering facts or performing rapid mental math calculations. These variations in abilities and talents presumably arise [...]

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Cancer charity boss on beating cancer three times

At 32 years old Doug Ulman is president of cancer-support charity the Lance Armstrong Foundation. He has also survived three separate cases of cancer.
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Making tough choices: Pregnant with cancer

Seven years ago Erin Zammett Ruddy was diagnosed with a slow-moving form of blood cancer. She went into remission, got pregnant, stopped her meds, and had a son. Now she wants to do it again.
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How to keep little trick-or-treaters safe and healthy this Halloween

Halloween is creeping up on us — and as kids anticipate the occasion with excitement bordering on mania, parents often express concern.
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TED MED: Bringing medicine home for better care

Eric Dishman, a behavioral scientist, was holding a battered cardboard box with a mailing label on it. He promised the audience a preview of a wonderful tool for improving elderly health care and independence at home. “You’d better get a close up of this,” he said to the cameraman recording the talk for yesterday’s [...]

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A Decade Later, Lifestyle Changes Or Metformin Still Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Intensive lifestyle changes aimed at modest weight loss reduced the rate of developing type 2 diabetes by 34 percent compared with placebo in people at high risk for the disease, researchers conclude based on 10 years of data.
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NASA’s Ares 1-X test rocket lifts off successfully

A prototype NASA rocket for a planned crew launcher lifted off into the Florida sky Wednesday morning, providing an unmanned flight demonstration of the new technology. The 100-meter-tall Ares 1-X, powered by a solid rocket booster, flew from Kennedy Space Center to an altitude of 45 kilometers before splashing down six minutes later in [...]

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House panel takes up brain injuries and NFL players

Are professional football players at greater risk of dementia and other neurological problems?
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How the ‘fame motive’ makes you seek stardom

In the era of reality TV, YouTube, and social media “friends” and “followers,” it seems that everyone wants to be a star. People will perform outrageous acts on camera and revel in the attention of strangers. But what drives this need for attention?
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