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(Photo illustration by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) Last year, teen use of electronic cigarettes surpassed traditional cigarette use for the first time ever. But a new study shows that vaping is on the decline with high schoolers. And researchers can’t tell if it’s just a blip or if teens have really turned away from vaping for…
Shailene Woodley, from third left, filmmaker Josh Fox, Susan Sarandon, second from right, and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member Bobbi Jean Three Lakes, right, join a rally outside US District Court in Washington in August in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Photo via AP A North Dakota pipeline carrying crude oil dumped 176,000…
When I was in my 20s, I remember my therapist patiently listening to me complain about how out-of-my-depth I often felt around other gay men. I was asking her why they always seemed so effortlessly aloof and cool, whereas I was – and to some extent, still am – a slobbering golden retriever of a…
On a cool October evening in 2012, Samantha Trimble walked into the lobby of Millwood Hospital, a low-slung brick building on the side of a road in Arlington, Texas, seeking a free mental health assessment. A few weeks earlier in the AP world history class Trimble taught, after a kid started acting childish, she put a…
President-elect Donald Trump promised to drive down the cost of medicines, defying investors who saw a boon in his election last month and injecting himself again into a contentious economic debate. “I’m going to bring down drug prices,” Trump said, according to a transcript of an interview posted on Time magazine’s website as it named him its…
Laura June Dec—02—2016 04:12AM EST Of the fringe groups given encouragement with the election of fringe man Donald Trump to the highest office in the land (US), possibly none are more sad or more inherently-potentially-theoretically dangerous than the anti-vaxxers: those opposed to vaccines because they “don’t work,” they “cause autism,” or they’re “part of a…
Image: Getty Aspartame—the artificial sweetener found in drinks like Diet Coke—is probably not good for you. If you believe otherwise, I admire your commitment to self-delusion. A new study published by a team of investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism found a possible reason aspartame doesn’t help you lose weight—oh…
Voices Yes, contraceptives have side effects – and it’s time for men to put up with them too Apparently women can have such ailments as depression and acne thrust upon them for the greater good of preventing an unwanted pregnancy, but the same level of discomfort cannot be expected of men scald=3875131:article_responsive_images [if IE 9]><...
A recently published study sheds light on the alarming relationship between hormonal birth control and depression. But the findings are only the latest in a long line of battles between women and their doctors over accurate information about birth control. In honor of Planned Parenthood’s 100-year anniversary, we’re taking an in-depth look at the history…
Image by Jim Cooke/Photo courtesy Jody Goldstein Jennifer Frey drank herself to death. Frey’s obituary in the Washington Post, her last full-time employer, merely gave “multiple organ failure” as the cause of her March 26 death. But alcohol killed her as surely as a bullet killed Lincoln. She died abusing a drug that kills millions…