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“I would like you to put my trauma center out of business. I really would. I would like to not be an expert on gunshots.”
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An experiment that showed the felicitous effects of listening to Italian opera for mice after a heart transplant was among the winners at this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
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Outliers knows it's tough to see your favorite NFL team lose again and again. Turns out it's not just bad for your morale to be a fan of teams like the hapless Detroit Lions, it's bad for your waistline—and your neighbors' waistlines, too.
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Results of a study on cognitive decline found aging brains may benefit from a video game. The study, published in the journal Nature, found attention and functional memory got a boost among older adults who played a custom-designed video game.
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Outliers has long known that competition among Pittsburgh's health systems and insurers has been fierce and caustic, with skirmishes between major players spilling into courtrooms and headlines.
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During her four years as America's doctor, the 18th surgeon general of the U.S. made it her mission to stress chronic-disease prevention. So it was no surprise during Dr. Regina Benjamin's marquee performance at Modern Healthcare's Sept. 9 gala honoring the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives...
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“Big systems, consolidated medical groups, urgent-care centers, free-standing emergency rooms, retail clinics, community health centers, traditional community hospitals … just about any of these facilities nationwide would take another primary-care doctor if one walked in the door.
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It's the little things that add up. Like the minutes it takes annually to deal with each patient's HIPAA notice of privacy practices for protected healthcare information. Annually, that task eats up about 30.7 million hours of healthcare workers' and...
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The sight of coral, honeycombs or lotus blossoms don't send you into a panic? Then you must not be a trypophobe, or one who suffers from the fear of clusters of holes. Trypophobia is what one scientist calls “the most common phobia you've never heard of.” Even Outliers has to...
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Being short on cash may make you a bit slower in the brain, a new study suggests.
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