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Does having money help extend your life? Does not having money shorten it?

An up-and-coming, open-access journal, eNeuro, is pioneering an improved peer review process for scientific papers. In doing so, they are making a big impact. 

The flu may be almost over, but another pesky season is just around the corner: allergy season. It affects up to 60 million people in the U.S. each year, and it's easy to mistake for the common cold. How can you tell them apart?

You may have heard about the latest internet fad captivating mostly teenagers and dismissed it as a myth. But, yes, apparently filming yourself while snorting an unwrapped condom up your nose and pulling it out through your mouth is a thing.

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests, like those sold by 23andMe and others, are increasing in both the number of people using them and the breadth of information that they provide.

Kids and parents, and millions of other fans, return to Major League ballparks this week for the start of the 2018 season, a fun and joyous time for people all over the country.

New scientific discoveries should be held to a high standard. When they happen to be incredibly powerful and have the ability to edit the human genome, they should be held to the highest standard. 

I can’t just say happy birthday to this book — after all it’s pretty much anti-birth. But that’s what the book really was — an early harbinger of the many scares put out by this group or that.

Cases of cholera can be found all over the world. That said, they are not typically found in certain places - like Canada.

It's easy to get sick during a flight, right? With the recycled air and all of those people cramped together - isn't a plane basically a flying petri dish?