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Health Trends
TV-Watching Has Been Linked To 8 Major Causes Of Death & I Still Won’t ...
Sarah Jacoby
Oct 29, 2015
Tech
An Asteroid Is Going To Come Spookily Close To Earth On Halloween
Sarah Jacoby
Oct 29, 2015
Mind
Here’s What Happens In Your Brain When You’re About To Die
Sarah Jacoby
Oct 28, 2015
Fitness
19 Pole-Dancing Photos Prove That Curvy Girls Are Badasses
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Sarah Jacoby
Mind
Here’s How Stress Can Make You Sick
We can't help it. We're humans, and we get stressed. But the way we deal with it could either help us stay healthy this cold season, or — a
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Sarah Jacoby
Diet & Nutrition
Processed & Red Meat Could Cause Cancer, Says WHO Report
Have we all finished the weekend's late-night burgers and bacon-filled brunches? Good. Because the World Health Organization (WHO) is here to let us k
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Sarah Jacoby
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Body
This Woman Can
Smell
Parkinson’s & Researchers Wan...
It's easy for the early symptoms of Parkinson's disease to go unnoticed. But not much gets by Joy Milne, a 65-year-old Scottish woman who can acc
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Sarah Jacoby
Health Trends
In Just 12 Years, Pot Use Has More Than Doubled In The U.S.
If it seems like more people are smoking pot these days, you're not imagining it: According to a new study, the number of marijuana users has more tha
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Sarah Jacoby
Health Trends
Updated: Hedge Fund Bro Jacks Up Price On Lifesaving Drug
UPDATE: Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego-based company, is now offering a compounded version of Daraprim for $1 a pill, severely undercutting the $750
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Sarah Jacoby
Diet & Nutrition
Subway Is The Latest Chain To Phase Out Antibiotics
Last week, a Subway customer found a mouse in his sandwich. We all have to deal with the fact that we live in a world where that happened. But that doesn
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Sarah Jacoby
Mind
3 Things We’ve Learned About Facial Expressions & Depression
Just because someone smiles doesn't mean everything's all peachy. Which is why researchers are now taking a closer look at our facial expressions
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Sarah Jacoby
Body
What You Need To Know About The New Mammogram Guidelines
Early breast cancer screening has become a topic of constant controversy. And now, for the first time in more than 30 years, the American Cancer Society (A
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Sarah Jacoby
Body
Here’s The
Real
Reason You Have A Period
More often than not, periods suck. But, as this new Ted Ed video reminds us, they're super helpful and, actually, kind of amazing. You might think tha
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Sarah Jacoby
Body
Our Ancestors Probably Didn’t Get 8 Hours Of Sleep Either
We all know the amount of sleep we're supposed to be getting. And we all probably feel guilty about the fact that we're not going to get there, n
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Sarah Jacoby
Health Trends
What It’s Like To Co-Parent With Your Abuser
October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, and Refinery29 has partnered with Safe Horizon to bring our readers real stories from domestic violence advoc
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Sarah Jacoby
Diet & Nutrition
Dietary Supplements Send Thousands To The ER Every Year
We already know that the actual benefits of dietary supplements are up for a hearty debate. And now, new research reveals that supplements could actually a
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Sarah Jacoby
Diet & Nutrition
White Wine Can Be Good For You, Too
We've heard plenty about the (often exaggerated) benefits of red wine. It seems like there's a new study on the subject every day, in fact. But t
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Sarah Jacoby
Mind
Hayden Panettiere Now In Treatment For Postpartum Depression
Update: Hayden Panettiere has now checked into a treatment facility to help battle her postpartum depression, reports E! News. Continue to our original sto
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Sarah Jacoby
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Diet & Nutrition
You Can Now Order Nancy — The “Birchbox Of Cannabis”
If you're sick of getting makeup, snacks, and jewelry in a monthly box, you can now sign up for something a little more fun: Nancy, a new subscription
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Sarah Jacoby
Diet & Nutrition
Hey, Amy Schumer: Here’s How Antibiotics Really Affect Your...
After covering the Kardashians and the extreme joy of chatting with Bradley Cooper for half an hour, Amy Schumer ended her SNL monologue this weekend with
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Sarah Jacoby
Sex
Controversial New Genetic Test Can (Kind Of) Predict Sexual Orien...
Even with research on the topic building for decades now, science still has a hard time finding a definitive biological basis for sexual orientation. But a
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Sarah Jacoby
Health Trends
Law & Order
Viewers Have Something Awesome In Common
With certain other TV shows tackling subjects of sexual assault without much, um, tact, Law & Order remains the (often melodramatic, but) brightly shin
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Sarah Jacoby
Mind
Americans Are Strangely Likely To Fall For Fake Pain Drugs
About 100 million Americans are currently dealing with chronic pain — approximately 70% of them are women. So now is really not a great time for our
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Sarah Jacoby
Sex
Mouse Study Hints At Possible Reversible Male Birth Control
For too long, dudes have been stuck with two (self-directed) birth control extremes: single-use condoms or nearly-permanent vasectomies, versus more than a
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Sarah Jacoby
Sex
3 Lessons In Online Dating From The Most Popular Woman On OkCupid
Lauren Urasek was both lucky and unlucky enough to be crowned OkCupid's most-messaged straight woman in NYC in 2014. As you can probably imagine, the
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Sarah Jacoby
Sex
Here’s How Often Millennial Women Have Sex
Just how much sex do millennial women have these days? Well, according to a new survey from Cosmo, the numbers aren't too shabby — and they may
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Sarah Jacoby
Sex
Here Are The Porn Terms iPhone Users Search For
It might seem like our porn-watching preferences are all over the map. But, according to new data from Pornhub, those of us using iPhones to search for sex
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Sarah Jacoby
Body
These High-Tech Vaginal Rings Give You Fertility Info & More
There's a new ring on the market for women, and it doesn't go on your finger (think much further south). It's already catching attention eve
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Sarah Jacoby
Health Trends
Why Weight-Shaming Is Way More Dangerous Than We Thought
You probably already know that shaming someone about his or her weight is utterly awful and useless. Not only does it not motivate us to change our ways &m
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Sarah Jacoby
Tech
NASA: Signs Of Liquid Water Found On Mars
Step aside, Matt Damon — real-life Mars has got some pretty big news today. NASA announced that a team has found signs of liquid water on Mars. The f
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Sarah Jacoby
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