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...ledges as adolescents are as likely to be infected with sexually transmitted diseases as those who do not take virginity pledges, Yale and Columbia University researchers report in the March 18 issue of Journal of Adolescent Health. The virginity pledges may even encourage higher risk sexual behavior amo...US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
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...y received regular cardiovascular follow-up visits with a physician. Those who saw both a family practitio... a specialist had the lowest mortality rates, even with more complicated conditions. Outpatient care involving both a specialist and a family physician was ...Explosion of child obesity predicted to shorten us life expectancy
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...e UK reported using cannabis for medical purposes, with more than a third (35 per cent) saying that they u...niversity Health Centre (MUHC) Pain Centre. People with chronic pain were most likely to use cannabis for medicinal purposes (25 percent) followed by patien...Mechanism of RNA recoding: New twists in brain protein production
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