For the past five months, Rob Rhinehart has lived off Soylent, a milky mixture of vitamins and minerals he developed. He says it contains all the human body needs to be completely satiated and nutritionally balanced — and he believes it will change the wa

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Kids and adolescents with ADHD often struggle to keep their emotions in check. ADHD has also been linked to sleep disorders, which is one of the reasons a team of German researchers sought to determine how sleep influences the consolidation and processing

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On Monday, the Obama administration announced it is ending its fight to keep age restrictions on the morning-after pill. The Department of Justice will no longer appeal the ruling by Judge Edward Korman of the District Court of Eastern New York that overt

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Thanks to public-health messages, everyone pretty much knows that breast-feeding is beneficial for baby. But it’s also really good for mom, and now a new study quantifies just how good.

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Federal health officials say they have found bacteria and fungus in drug vials from a Tennessee specialty pharmacy that recalled all of its injectable medicines last month.

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Technology

Thanks to public-health messages, everyone pretty much knows that breast-feeding is beneficial for baby. But it’s also really good for mom, and now a new study quantifies just how good.

healthland.time.com/2013/06/07/more-breast-feeding-could-save-billions-and-prevent-thousands-of-breast-cancer-cases/?hpt=hp_t3

Creative types are often seen as rather flaky — their minds leaping wildly from one bizarre idea to another, ever seeking inspiration. But a new study suggests that people who actually achieve creative success have minds that stubbornly cling to ideas, ev

healthland.time.com/2013/06/07/creativity-linked-with-deficit-in-mental-flexibility/

The projections are not pretty for aging populations in the U.S. Already, stroke is one of the top four leading causes of death among Americans, especially among Hispanic and African-American men and women.

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Thanks to public health messages, everyone pretty much knows that breast-feeding is beneficial for baby. But it’s also really good for mom, and now a new study quantifies just how good.

healthland.time.com/2013/06/07/more-breast-feeding-could-save-billions-and-prevent-thousands-of-breast-cancer-cases/

Even Freud felt unequipped to speculate about the true nature of women’s sexual longings, but journalist Dan Bergner was bold enough to investigate what science has since learned.  His new book, What Do Women Want?  Adventures in the Science of Female Des

healthland.time.com/2013/06/06/qa-author-dan-bergner-on-what-women-want-hint-not-monogamy/

Dermatologists have long prodded their patients to apply more sunscreen, claiming it not only protects against skin cancer, but aging as well. Now there's evidence to prove it.

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In one of the largest studies to date, researchers from Loma Linda University in California report that vegetarians outlast meat-eaters.Among a group of 70,000 participants, researchers determined that vegetarians had a 12% lower risk of death compared to

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More than one-third of American marriages today get their start online — and those marriages are more satisfying and are less likely to end in divorce, according to a new study.

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Aside from having regularly smoked marijuana, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Trayvon Martin share little in common. Tsarnaev, of course, is the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings and Martin was the unarmed black teenager shot to death in Florida in

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National Senior Health and Fitness Day was celebrated Thursday by aging gym rats everywhere. To mark the occasion, Healthland spoke with the world's oldest performing female bodybuilder, Ernestine Shepherd. At nearly 77 years old, Shepherd is no couch pot

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World

With this installment, we're introducing a new feature on Health & Family that will bring you the latest trends in food. We'll introduce you to seasonal delicacies and bring you some of their history and even the lore that surrounds why we started eat

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Making babies ought to be the easiest thing you’ll ever do—indeed, it ought to be a hard thing not to do. The evolutionary game is rigged so that it’s fun, the kind of fun you want to have even when offspring aren’t on your mind.

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Yesterday, I asked Facebook to take down a fraudulent page. Within a few hours it was gone, just a shadowy image of a bandaged thumb where it used to be. Very effective. It's highly likely I get better treatment from Facebook than your average Joe (becaus

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Yesterday, I asked Facebook to take down a fraudulent page. Within a few hours it was gone, just a shadowy image of a bandaged thumb where it used to be. Very effective. It's highly likely I get better treatment from Facebook than your average Joe (becaus

healthland.time.com/2013/05/31/can-facebook-stop-the-hate/

In the U.S., 68.8% of current adult smokers want to quit for good, according to the U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Since 2002, the number of former smokers exceeds the number of current smokers in the U.S., but there's still work t

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