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Time-restricted eating, a form of intermittent fasting, appears to benefit people with metabolic syndrome, who are at a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
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Whales’ large bodies help them consume their prey at high efficiencies, but their size is limited by prey availability and foraging efficiency.
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Fewer Americans are dying in hospitals and nursing homes, and more are passing away at home. It’s the end-of-life experience most people say they want.
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A public mental health crisis swelled in New Zealand after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
There are many lessons California can learn from Christchurch.
Christchurch, New Zealand, shattered by a 2011 earthquake, offers an urgent lesson for California.
One breast cancer drug showed particular ability to reach tumors in the brain, which are notoriously tough to treat.
Does excess body weight somehow reduce regions in the brain that regulate planning and impulse control, and is obesity a result of that brain difference?
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A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson’s patients did the same for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The benefit was clear.
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New health data confirm a 3-year drop in Americans’ life expectancy, bucking a trend of rising longevity in other wealthy nations.
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The U.S. government says states can’t use federal dollars to fund medical marijuana treatments for patients with opioid addiction.
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About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police. That risk is 2.5 times higher than for white men, new research shows.
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The rate at which young Americans took their own lives reached a high-water mark in 2017, driven by a sharp rise in suicides among older teenage boys, according to new research.
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Time-restricted eating, a form of intermittent fasting, appears to benefit people with metabolic syndrome, who are at a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
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All of the Ashkenazi Jews alive today can trace their roots to a group of about 330 people who lived 600 to 800 years ago.
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One breast cancer drug showed particular ability to reach tumors in the brain, which are notoriously tough to treat.
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Clean energy advocates are talking about what comes next — and warning that climate change demands faster action.
Prompted by restaurant industry lawsuit, city will conduct thorough environmental analysis
With a 2020 shutdown deadline looming, four coastal gas plants have become an early battleground in an increasingly urgent debate.
Greta Thunberg said she was “a bit surprised” by the Time honor, despite having become the figurehead of a global youth movement.
The bill requires that the chemicals be added to the federal Toxics Release Inventory. It also establishes Trump’s ‘space force’ and grants 12 weeks of parental leave for federal workers. The Senate is expected to vote on the measure next week.
A legislative study finds that the next 10 years could determine the fate of the California coast and urges state and local officials to act quickly.
If L.A. succeeds, a hydrogen-burning Intermountain Power Plant could become a model for governments and electric utilities around the world.
New York state’s lawsuit alleged that Exxon misled investors for years about the financial risks of climate change.
It came as a bittersweet surprise to biologists and government agencies monitoring the steadily shrinking Salton Sea’s slide toward death by choking dust storms and salt.
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Kevin Ellison was known for hard hits while playing for USC and the Chargers. Did that lead to increasingly bizarre behavior before his death?
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A California company has come under fire for its aborted plan to recruit inmates to test a novel program to battle opioid addiction.
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Novel drugs — some old, some new — may offer fresh ways to reduce heart risks beyond the usual medicines to lower cholesterol and blood pressure.
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State policies that treat pregnant women like criminals if they use illicit substances are linked with higher rates of babies being born with opioid withdrawal.
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Children are growing up in a warmer world that will hit them with more and different health problems than their parents experienced, doctors say.
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Deaths resulting from infections with drug-resistant “superbugs” appear to be falling in the U.S., though infections continue to rise, according to the CDC.
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Pregnant black women had babies born prematurely and with smaller birth weights if they lived near the site of a police shooting of an unarmed black person, research shows.
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NASA’s sun-skimming spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe, is surprising scientists with its unprecedented close views of our star.
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Climate models been frequently attacked by climate change deniers, but guess what? They did a remarkably good job of predicting what actually happened.
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The weather phenomenon accounted for $42.6 billion in flood damage in 11 Western states over 40 years, with most of the destruction in California.
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It’s a climate change milestone: The amount of carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels will hit 37 billion tons this year, setting another record high. A climate researcher discusses the latest findings.
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USGS scientist Margaret Mangan, who is retiring soon, has drawn attention to California’s more overlooked natural threats: a dozen restive volcanoes.
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A Thanksgiving Day storm hit Southern California, bringing heavy rain that could result in mudflows in recent wildfire burn areas.
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A former information security manager alleged he was retaliated against for complaining that sensitive BioWatch data were vulnerable to hackers.
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A critically endangered Puerto Rican toad was for the first time born via in vitro fertilization as U.S. scientists attempt to save it from extinction.
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Researchers have devised a new framework for designing machine learning algorithms that helps prevent intelligent machines from being biased.
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A disease that destroys citrus has been detected in San Bernardino County, expanding an already large quarantine area aimed at keeping the malady from hitting groves in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
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