Annals Of The Obvious: Women Way More Tired Than Men
Feeling run down? Dog-tired? Who isn’t, right? But who’s more exhausted: men or women? The Centers for Disease Control and …
State Laws Could Muddle Same-Sex Marriage Benefits
Even if the Supreme Court sweeps aside barriers to federal- and state-sanctioned same-sex marriages this summer, where you live and …
Would Angry Teens Chill Out If They Saw More Happy Faces?
All day long we’re surrounded by faces. We see them on the subway sitting two by two, pass them on …
Dengue Fever Cases Have Been Seriously Underestimated
A new paper in the journal Nature says scientists have been seriously underestimating the amount of dengue around the globe. …
Listen Up To Smarter, Smaller Hearing Aids
One day in the fall of 2010, composer Richard Einhorn woke up and realized there was something horribly wrong with …
Apparently, Some People Can’t Be Bothered With Food
We’re accustomed to offbeat food ideas here at The Salt. But even we had to pause over recent headlines about …
The Real Sounds Of Hearing Loss
It’s easy enough to restore 20/20 eyesight with glasses or contacts. But even state-of-the-art digital hearing aids can’t perfectly restore …
Human Cases Of Bird Flu In China Draw Scrutiny
Sixteen cases of a new flu around Shanghai have touched off a major effort to determine what kind of threat …
Soil Lead May Be An Overlooked Threat To Kids’ Health
Lead poisoning in kids is hardly the problem it used to be, now that we’ve stopped using lead in house …
As Palliative Care Need Grows, Specialists Are Scarce
Baby boomers have never needed more care to ease their pain and suffering. But there simply aren’t enough specialists to …
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