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Distraction reduces pain, study finds
By Joseph BrownsteinMyHealthNewsDailyWhen you distract yourself from pain, you actually hurt less, a new study suggests.
College vending machine offers 'morning-after' pill
Students at a Pennsylvania university can obtain the "morning-after" pill from an unusual source — a vending machine at the campus health center.
Have we met? Face blindness prevents recognition
Some people are better at recognizing a face. Now a study of individuals who have prosopagnosia, a disorder rendering them unable to distinguish another's mug, suggests a possible cause: a breakdown in a brain pathway used to process faces.
Komen's Karen Handel quits after funding dispute
Karen Handel, an executive with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity has resigned after a dispute over funding for Planned Parenthood.
CDC: 9 in 10 Americans eat too much salt
Despite public health messages telling Americans to lower the amount of salt in their diets, 90 percent of people in the U.S. older than age 2 consume more than the recommended amount of sodium each day, a new report says.
Facebook takes a toll on your mental health
By Stephanie PappasLiveScience Facebook's initial public offering of stock is likely to make a lot of developers and designers of the site very wealthy.
Is it Alzheimer's, or mild cognitive impairment?
Almost everyone currently diagnosed with a mild form of Alzheimer's disease would be downgraded to not having the condition, if new proposed criteria for the diagnosis of cognitive problems were applied, a new study shows.
Study: Child abuse bigger threat than SIDS
In the first national estimate of serious injuries due to child abuse, Yale University researchers say 4,600 U.S. children were hospitalized with broken bones, traumatic brain injury and other serious damage caused by abuse. Babies younger than one were the most common victims.
CDC: 1 in 5 kids exposed to secondhand smoke in cars
Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.
Study: Green tea could be secret to healthy old age
Elderly adults who regularly drink green tea may stay more agile and independent than their peers over time, according to a Japanese study that covered thousands of people.
NYT: Komen funding fracas far from over
When the nation’s pre-eminent breast cancer advocacy group, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, decided to stop most of its financing of Planned Parenthood in December, Komen’s leaders hoped to quietly distance the foundation from a politically controversial organization that they feared was costing them support and donations, a board member said.
