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“It makes no sense for the District of Columbia to shut down the entire outside market for small business health insurance—which has worked for thousands of businesses over many decades, and force employers to use a never-been-tried government-run insurance exchange to insure their...
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Ah, spring. A time when Outliers' fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love ... and healthcare reform's effects on marriage.
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While marijuana may be more commonly associated with inducing a case of the munchies, now comes news from the American Journal of Medicine that researchers have found a link between pot-smoking and a smaller waist size.
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Apparently the word is out. The discerning expectant Canada goose won't hatch her goslings just anywhere anymore. Only the hospital will do. Seems two facilities have had parts of their employee parking lots turned into fowl maternity wards this spring.
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Outliers has always tended to be a glass half-full kind of column. And now, a new study shows that the tendency to feel good about the future isn't just because spring is finally in the air and the sun is shining.
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Science has spoken: Enter a grocery store on an empty stomach at your peril. You are more likely to buy foods with a high calorie count than more healthy options when you're hungry, according to the results of a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Close your eyes and imagine a world where you could receive a liposuction, magically extract specific cells from the tumbler of excess fat and then inject them into your heart tissue to repair the muscle damage that causes your coronary artery disease.
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Leukemia is attacking the body's bone marrow with waves of mutant cancer cells, but you don't have to stand back and let it happen. You are a nanobot. Your mission? “Save the precious stem cell colonies and cleanse the bone marrow of all leukemia cells with slashing, arcade-style game...
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Outliers notes a new campaign is encouraging Americans to take an online test to screen for common mental illnesses. Advocacy group Mental Health America is partnering with M3 Information to let anyone take a three-minute...
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Sixty years ago, the late American crime novelist Mickey Spillane published Kiss Me, Deadly, which could also serve as the title of a new analysis from the University of California at Berkeley's School of Public Health.
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