Hands-only CPR as effective as traditional, studies show

You’re in a restaurant, or at an airport, or on a crowded street. The man or woman next to you crumples to the ground. Do you know what to do? Anyone trained in CPR knows the first step: Check for breathing, and check for a pulse. If there’s no heartbeat — what then?
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Social Ties Boost Survival by 50 Percent

A long lunch out with co-workers or a late-night conversation with a family member might seem like a distraction from other healthy habits, such as going to the gym or getting a good night’s sleep. But more than 100 years’ worth of research shows that having a healthy social life is incredibly important to staying [...]

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Scientists’ dispersant concerns remain

Over 1.8 million gallons of dispersant chemicals have been added to the Gulf of Mexico to break up oil flowing from the Deepwater Horizon’s ruptured well. And in the 100 days since the rig’s explosion, little more has become known about the effects of those chemicals.
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Dispersant concerns remain

Little is known about the effects of the chemicals added to the Gulf of Mexico to break up oil flowing from the Deepwater Horizon’s ruptured well.
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Clone farm goal: Disease-resistant animals

Cloning has been a controversial issue since German embryologist Hans Spemann first made a pair of adorable, genetically identical salamander twins out of a single egg, way back in nineteen-dickety-two.
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Cell phones save lives in Rwanda

The Rwandan government is giving out hundreds of cell phones in an attempt to save pregnant women and babies.
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Alcohol may fight rheumatoid arthritis

Moderate drinking has been linked to a variety of health benefits, including a reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. According to a new study, drinking alcohol may also ease the pain of — and lower the risk of developing — rheumatoid arthritis, a potentially crippling autoimmune disorder.
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More Education Delays Dementia Signs–But Not Damage

Education has been liked to decreased risk for dementia for decades, but researchers behind a new study opened up the brains of hundreds of people who had died with the disease to try to find out why this correlation exists. [More]
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Celeb lookalike surgery requests raise red flags

Nicole Kidman’s nose. Angelina Jolie’s lips. Plastic surgeons say they get these very specific requests regularly and usually oblige.
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Wanna look like a celeb? Not so fast

Nicole Kidman’s nose. Angelina Jolie’s lips. Plastic surgeons say they get these very specific requests regularly and usually oblige.
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