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Racial, Ethnic Gap in Stroke Care

WebMD reports on the American Heart Association’s new statement on racial disparity in stroke prevalence and stroke care.

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Do Tinted Glasses Provide Migraine Relief?

Precision tinted lenses can help reduce the discomfort experienced by some migraine sufferers by normalizing activity in the brain, a study suggests.

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Preschoolers Who Sleep Less Weigh More by Age 7

Sleep appears to influence a child’s body weight, particularly their body fat, a new study shows.

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Job-Related Exercise Helps People Stay Healthy

About two-thirds of U.S. adults meet minimum physical activity guidelines while doing leisure activities, but walking or moving around more at the workplace could help, the CDC says.

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Omega-3s May Reduce Heart Risks for People With Stents

Two blood-thinning drugs combined with omega-3 fatty acids may reduce heart attack risk for people with stents in their arteries, a new study says.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s New Thing: Only Eating Meat He Kills Himself

Somehow we don’t think this will catch on quite like Facebook did. Mark Zuckerberg has announced on — where else? — his social networking site that he’s now going to only eat animals that he has personally killed. Apparently, Zuck likes to set a new challenge for himself each year and killing animals was this

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Infants Use Pure Reasoning to Make Sense of the World

Babies as young as 12 months old can reason and make rational predictions about how novel situations will play out, according to an international team of researchers who study the infant mind.

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Food Pyramid Replacement Coming June 2

In an exclusive interview with WebMD, the USDA says the replacement for the Food Pyramid will be announced on June 2 — and that the new icon heralds a “monumental effort” to improve America’s health.

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Food Pyramid Replacement: The Plate Coming June 2

In an exclusive interview with WebMD, the USDA says the replacement for the Food Pyramid will be announced on June 2 — and that the new icon heralds a “monumental effort” to improve America’s health.

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Meningitis Rate Is Dropping in U.S.

Cases of bacterial meningitis continue to decline in the U.S., with incidence falling by almost a third over the last decade, the CDC says.

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