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- When the Doctor Must Choose Between Her Patients and Her Notes http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2016/01/opinion-doctor-patients-notes 74 comments
- When and Where Do You Stress? Ambitious Project Aims to Map Daily Life http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2015/07/boston-stress-study 7 comments
- U.S. Health Care Is Less Private, More ‘Socialist’ Than You Might Think. Just the tax-funded portion of U.S. health care — 11.2 percent of GDP, according to the new paper — is more than any other nation, including all those that are totally tax-supported. http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2016/01/health-care-publicly-financed-single-payer 15 comments politics
- Shameful Operating Room Moments: Medical Journal On Calling Out ‘Dirtball’ Doctors | CommonHealth http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2015/08/doctor-behavior-essay 4 comments nottheonion
- Shameful Operating Room Moments: Medical Journal On Calling Out ‘Dirtball’ Doctors http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2015/08/doctor-behavior-essay 7 comments science
- Symptom checkers — those tools that let you enter information and then produce a diagnosis — are accurate about half of the time, according to a study out of Harvard Medical School. http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2015/07/self-diagnosing-health-websites-study?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wknd 11 comments science
- Massachusetts Becomes First State To Require Price Tags For Health Care http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/10/mass-first-price-tags-health-care 9 comments politics
- Daniel Dennett on 'What Does New Brain Science Mean For Free Will?' http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/08/brain-science-free-will 67 comments philosophy
- Psychobiotics: Can Stomach Bacteria Change Your Brain? http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/11/psychobiotics-stomach-bacteria-change-your-brain 3 comments technology
- Each minute of exercise lengthens life-span by 7 minutes on average. http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/03/minutes-exercise-longer-life 17 comments science
- If you could test yourself for cold & flu viruses when you're feeling sick, would you do it? Harvard is distributing free test kits to people in the Boston area in a landmark flu tracking study. http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/01/home-flu-test-goviral 4 comments technology
- If you could test yourself for cold & flu viruses when you're feeling sick, would you do it? Harvard is distributing free test kits to people in the Boston area in a landmark flu tracking study. http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/01/home-flu-test-goviral 5 comments science
- Meditation Relieves Symptoms Of Anxiety, Depression Beyond Placebo, Study Finds http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/01/meditation-relieves-symptoms-of-anxiety-depression-beyond-placebo-study-finds 40 comments science
- On Marriage, Listen To That Little Voice In Your Head: Spouses’ automatic attitudes, not their conscious ones, predicted changes in their marital satisfaction, such that spouses with more positive automatic attitudes were less likely to experience declines in marital satisfaction over time. http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/11/science-study-marriage-doubts 3 comments science
- Your Brain On Poverty: Low-Income Childhood Linked To Smaller Brain http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/10/kids-brains-on-poverty-links-to-smaller-brain-volumes-but-caring-interventions-may-help 9 comments science
- Huh? Hunger Hormone May Be Key To Stress Effects On Mental Health http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/10/hunger-hormone-stress-ptsd 3 comments science
- Yes, We’re Now Getting Carded For Nail Polish Remover http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/08/carded-nail-polish-remover 12 comments politics
- Kennedy Calling For Equal Coverage Of Mental Health — Yes, Still http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/03/mental-health-parity-states#.uvkqwcqo1ra.reddit 4 comments politics
- Anti-anxiety medication in waterways linked to changes in behavior and feeding rate of wild European perch http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/02/mood-altering-drugs-effect-ecosystem 46 comments science
- Tax Soda?!? How About Making Fruits And Veggies Cheaper? http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/01/fat-tax-thin-subsidy 440 comments politics
- Massachusetts Experience: When The Full Sticker Shock Of Health Coverage Hits Our Family http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/11/sticker-shock-health-insurance 13 comments politics
- How The Media Cover The Brain - study finds that news coverage of brain research leads to three exaggerated conclusions http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/05/questioning-popular-neuroscience 4 comments science
- Why You Should Assume Everyone Has Herpes http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2011/04/latest-genital-herpes/ 5 comments reddit.com