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And in other culinary danger news, steer clear of the cinnamon challenge. That's the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos that has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers.
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Next time you're doing a risk assessment while planning a menu … wait, you don't do a risk assessment? According to some new research, Outliers thinks it might be a good idea.
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The price of fame may include a better chance of landing in an early grave, at least according to a new study that Outliers ran across.
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Ben Patton may be smart, good-looking and successful, but the head of Integrity Transitional Hospital in Denton, Texas, decided to call in the experts when it came to dating.
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Could Sartre and Camus have found relief from their existential anguish in a bottle of the pain reliever hospitals recommend most?
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“A baseball bat doesn't exist until it's isolated from a tree. But that's still the product of human invention to decide where to begin the bat and where to end the bat.”
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In case you're wondering what the world of college sports looks like from the perspective of a Quaker mascot, Dr. Robert Wachter is happy to share. Seems the physician, author and teacher was prompted to reminisce about his sports mascot past in the wake of the recent NCAA basketball tourney.
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If you know someone who likes things that last, Outliers could have found the perfect gift.
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CaroMont Health has decided it doesn't want to “Cheat death” anymore. Seems the hospital organization in Gastonia, N.C., wasn't anticipating the negative reaction that greeted its new tagline this month.
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The med student stereotype calls to mind an individual driven by ambition, with their face buried in a book or peering into a microscope. The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine sought to shake up that image last year by resorting to verse. And the Pritzker Poetry Contest was...
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