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* How is everyday onboard exercise on the International Space
Station changing the rate of bone loss of its occupants? Can
individual differences between humans explain differences in bone
loss in microgravity?
* Why and how do body parts itch? Why does it feel good to scratch
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* Does sleeping after a meal lead to weight gain?
* What causes dizziness?
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that the gray hairs we dread (or welcome) may arrive sooner with
stress
* Fact or Fiction?: Chewing Gum Takes Seven Years to Digest A myth
as durable as gum itself holds that the chewy confection sticks to
your innards like it does to the bottom of a desk
* Strange but True: Less Sleep Means More Dreams Missing sleep
tonight may just boost your dreams tomorrow night.
* Fact or Fiction?: Pets Protect Children against Allergies Pets
may or may not help fend off developing allergies but they will
help keep the house from being antiseptically clean.
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which more than a billion are overfed. Yet hundreds of millions
still suffer from hunger's persistent scourge
* Can Fat Be Fit? A well-publicized study and a spate of popular
books raise questions about the ill effects of being overweight.
Their conclusions are probably wrong
* Is Your Food Contaminated New approaches are needed to protect
the food supply
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for damaged spinal cords
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off a mental health crisis in the Gulf
* Attitude Screen Seeing if the public is ready for personal
genetic information
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original task
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much is permissible?
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immediate surgery. New genetic studies, Eric Vilain says, should
force a rethinking about sex assignment and gender identity.
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Californians to vote for embryonic stem cell work. That was a
piece of cake compared with getting the resulting research agency
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might be a White House shill, but Elias A. Zerhouni says his
medical thinking guides his stewardship of the National Institutes
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Strada is redefining what it means to provide quality medical care
in a combat zone
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