Disease

The one silver lining from this truly awful flu season is that the worst just might be over. 

We often tend to think of rural environments as being less polluted than our cities — fewer cars, less air pollution, etc. Thus we might expect folks living in rural areas to have fewer lung-related ailments.

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Diabetes is a well-known risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Government intelligence agencies get a lot of criticism when things go wrong but rarely receive any praise when things go right. That's because, when things go wrong, they often go disastrously wrong; but when things go right...

On the court in the 1970s, there was nothing small about the presence of "Tiny" Archibald.

Proteus, the shape-shifting god of the Greeks, has come to mean malleable or changeable.

The anti-vaccine movement is not limited just to the United States. Anti-vaxxers are influential in Europe, and the results have been entirely predictable: Europe is in the grip of a measles outbreak.

Always question the headlines. They are often wrong. Here's a recent one from AOL News:

Every single day, you take several IQ tests. You just aren't aware of them.