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Breast Cancer Numbers Dip Most in Wealthy, Urban Areas

a shared story    136 weeks 1 day 20 hours 47 minutes ago
Cases of invasive breast cancer in the United States have declined overall, but the decrease is significantly less marked in poor women who live in rural areas, possibly due to differences in the use of hormone therapy (HT), a new study suggests. 



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True or False: 10 Common Travel Beliefs

a shared story    196 weeks 6 days 9 hours 8 minutes ago
Have you heard that New Yorkers are rude, London is rainy, and China is just a shovel away? Here, the truth behind travel rumors 




Spanking Produces Troubled Kids, Study Contends

a shared story    13 hours 17 minutes ago
HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Adding more fuel to the controversial topic of children and spanking, two Canadian child development experts have published a new analysis that warns that physical punishment poses serious risks to a child's long-term development. 



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Assisted Suicide Law Is Overturned by Georgia Supreme Court

a shared story    13 hours 17 minutes ago
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that a law outlawing the promotion of assisted suicide was unconstitutional, a decision likely to shape the national debate over the practice.  




Girls may learn math anxiety from female teachers

a shared story    106 weeks 9 hours 23 minutes ago
Little girls may learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers. Despite gains in recent years, women still trail men in some areas of math achievement, and the question of why has provoked controversy. Now, a study of first- and second-graders suggests...(more) 




Surprises about Planned Parenthood cancer testing

a shared story    16 hours 17 minutes ago
To many people, breast cancer screening means a mammogram. But for millions of poor, mostly young women who visit Planned Parenthood, it is usually just a physical exam by the only health professional they may ever see.... 



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Fascism, Genocide, and Extinction: An Indictment Against Civilization

a shared story    126 weeks 6 days 6 hours 33 minutes ago
This perspective is much less comfortable to face than the one presented by Al Gore, civilization—as it has for the duration of its ten thousand years of fascism and genocide—offers only two options: Collective resistance or death. How the colonized captives of civilization respond does not...(more) 




Ovarian cancer screening popular despite guidelines

a shared story    17 hours 17 minutes ago
Reuters - Despite expert guidelines and scientific evidence to the contrary, a third of U.S. primary care physicians believe ovarian cancer screening is effective and many would offer it to patients, according to a new survey. 




Men's underwear getting a little extra attention

a shared story    19 hours 17 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some things are fashion, and some are necessity. Where do men's undergarments fall? Increasingly, right in the middle.... 



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White House open to compromise over contraception: adviser

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Reuters - The Obama administration is willing to work with Catholic universities and hospitals in implementing new rules that require health insurance to cover birth control, a top adviser to the president's re-election campaign said on Tuesday. 




Thousands of U.S. Kids Hospitalized for Abuse

a shared story    20 hours 17 minutes ago
HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Close to 4,600 kids in the United States were hospitalized as a result of child abuse in one recent year, and 300 of them died, a new study shows. 



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The World's Creepiest Places in Parties

a shared story    223 weeks 1 day 9 hours 52 minutes ago
Step away from that pumpkin! While we're more than happy to get into the swing of Halloween, we refuse to do a roundup of the trite and not-so-true haunted hotels around the world. Nonetheless, in our travels we've happened upon a number of places that are...(more) 



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