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A new study reveals that tattoos can pose significant health risks. In fact, it finds that roughly one in ten people who get a tattoo will have some kind of associated health problem. The study, which was carried out by Dr. Marie Leger, a dermatologist at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, involved an examination […]
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There’s no denying that having a terminal illness can be incredibly stressful. In the search for a drug that can help alleviate this stress and anxiety, researchers are focusing on a drug previously associated with the dance club scene: ecstasy. According to reports, researchers in California are now working with the psychoactive drug–which is banned […]
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Generally speaking, “moderate” drinking–or consuming about one alcoholic beverage each day–is acceptable from a health perspective. But a new study suggests that may not be the case if you’re a senior citizen. The study, which was led by Dr. Alexandrea Goncalves of the Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, involved more than […]
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According to research, exercise affects our circadian rhythms (our built in clocks) more than we might think. We look into all the ways lack of exercise affects circadian rhythms.
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A 65-year-old German grandmother has given birth to quadruplets. Like many older women who become pregnant, the woman turned to in vitro fertilization treatment. Annegret Raunigk, a Berlin-based school teacher, recently gave birth to three boys and one girl after a pregnancy of only 26 weeks. As a result, all of the newborns–who were delivered […]
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