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Finally, Male Birth Control Even Dudes Will Use

Here’s a male contraceptive from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute that a) works pretty well and b) shouldn’t be too burdensome for dudes

In 45 States, It’s Illegal to Keep Your HIV Status Secret

Ferrets react to flu much like humans do.

How to Give a Ferret a Deadly Flu

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Your Kid’s New Dermatologists: Barney and Kung Fu Panda

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Want to Be Healthy? Manage Your Microbes Like a Wildlife Park

Glasses Let Doctors, Poker Players See Your Blood

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What the Taliban and Jenny McCarthy Have in Common

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Edible Dictionary: Lean Cuisine Syndrome

Where do Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s statistics come from? People underestimate junk food and overestimate healthy food in dietary surveys

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Mythology and the Raw Milk Movement

What’s behind recent claims about a milky unpasteurized panacea?

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The Shangri-La of Health Food

Adam Bernbach making drinks with organic local gin.

Jose Andres and Other Toques of the Town Honor Alice Waters

What do you cook for famed chef Alice Waters? Washington’s culinary celebrities faced this challenge at the unveiling of her portrait at the Smithsonian

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A Closer Look at What You Eat

A photographer uses a scanning electron microscope to zoom in on everyday foods—and makes art

Along with co-authors Don DuRousseau and Joseph Cardillo, Galina Mindlin advise that repeated listening to selected songs can make you more productive, calmer or affectionate.

Music Playlists to Soothe Your Mind

Neuropsychiatrist Galina Mindlin suggests that listening to particular songs on your mp3 player can make you a more productive person

Raisins are a food that picky eaters won't touch.

Can a Picky Eater Change Her Ways?

Most expand their culinary horizons as they get older, but a few people hold fast to limited diets of familiar things like macaroni and cheese

Gestational diabetes is a risk for older pregnant women.

The Gestational Diabetes Diet: Taking Carbs from a Pregnant Lady

The last thing a pasta-loving pregnant lady with a sweet tooth wants to hear is that she should cut out carbs

Licorice

Is Licorice Dangerous?

Deer in headlights

Is it Safe to Eat Roadkill?

Enough with the jokes already. Some people are serious about looking to the roadside for an alternative to mass-market meats

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Five Nobel Laureates Who Made Food History

These five Nobelists have made food safer or more available, or increased our knowledge of it

Perhaps it's time to start teaching kids useful kitchen skills in home economics classes.

Is Home Economics Class Still Relevant?

“Too many Americans simply don’t know how to cook,” says a historian, and that has contributed to a health crisis

Hurricane Dean, a category 5 storm, rampaged through the Caribbean in 2007

Food For Emergency Situations

While it’s hard to be the consummate kitchen maven in the face of disaster, it’s still possible to manage food prep without a fully functional kitchen

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