Preventing kidney stones: It may be as simple as changing your diet
The advice from new guidelines issued this week is simple: drink more water.
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Ex-SEAL reveals himself as shooter who killed bin Laden
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Former commando Robert O’Neill describes the fatal shots that killed Osama bin Laden.
This robot makes you feel like there’s a ghost behind you
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Researchers have found a way to make healthy people hallucinate a presence that isn’t there -- and it only takes a poke.
Beyond antibiotics: A new weapon against superbugs shows promise
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Scientists from a Dutch biotech company report that a new antibiotics alternative has been effective in a limited trial.
Tricky take-offs may have limited pterodactyl size
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They could certainly fly, but basic physics kept them from getting too massive.
Link found between mothers’ exposure to air pollution and ADHD
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Researchers measured levels of a common pollutant called PAHs in mothers and children.
Suprise finding: Colon cancer rates rising among young adults
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Once thought of as a disease for the old, colon cancer on the rise in young adults.
Planetary birth revealed in best image yet from world’s most powerful telescope
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ALMA’s shot of a protoplanetary disk is just a taste of what’s to come.
Obama seeks $6 billion to fight Ebola in Africa, U.S.
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The White House is asking Congress for more than $6 billion in emergency funding to fight the Ebola epidemic.
Virgin Galactic crash highlights test-pilot dangers
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Private-industry pilots face grueling, homemade training programs in preparing for experimental flights.
Update: The Ebola epidemic
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The spread of the virus has slowed in Liberia, but has accelerated in Sierra Leone.
When picking leaders, we might favor a healthy glow over intelligent looks
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The facial cues for health may have more sway than those for smarts.
Allergy sufferers are likely to be in for a rough century
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New research finds that grass pollen could more than double over the next 100 years.
Scientists think they know why snakes get two penises and people only get one
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When it comes to genital development, scientists say it’s all about location.
Scientists think a newly discovered fossil could be a missing link
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The creature, who’s fossil was found in China, lived on land but was fully adapted to life in the water.
A lone gray wolf may be roaming the north rim of the Grand Canyon for the first time since the 1940s
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The animal was spotted earlier this fall. It appears to be wearing a radio collar, which isn’t working.
Preventing kidney stones: It may be as simple as changing your diet
![Preventing kidney stones: It may be as simple as changing your diet](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20141106195645im_/http://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_145x100/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/06/02/Web-Resampled/2014-06-02/bigstock-glass-of-water-18384314-k4hB--145x100@wp.com.jpg)
The advice from new guidelines issued this week is simple: drink more water.
Scientists warn of deadly disease from abroad — and it’s not Ebola
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Chagas, or “kissing bug” disease, is threatening the health of more and more Americans.
Google glass blind spots
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Researchers said they have found that the head-mounted device may partially obstruct peripheral vision.
Turns out these birds create songs with the same rules humans do
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The hermit thrush seems to follow human scales, but we’re not sure why.
The latest dinosaur in town
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Meet the semiaquatic spinosaurus, coming to your TV screen and on display at National Geographic.
Race: It’s a social, not a scientific idea
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A book notes that humans are one race — a race that divides people into a variety of groups.
Feel a hot flash coming on? Give that baby a hug.
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Menopause researchers find that women with small children report fewer temperature fluctations.
After dry needling, a runner’s Achilles injury heals
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But it remains unclear whether the acupuncture-like intervention or the passage of time was responsible.
When teens think peers like them, they don’t get as down
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A study on how teens reacted to bad grades found that those with peer support handled things better.
Your Wikipedia searches can reveal national flu trends
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The searches you make when you’re sick are a valuable flu-tracking tool -- and Wikipedia may be the best source of data.
Hepatitis C patients face hurdles accessing pricey drugs
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Many insurers say patients must already have severe liver damage to qualify for coverage.
10-year-old Virginia boy donates a 14,000-year-old arrowhead to the Smithsonian
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Noah Cordle made a rare discovery while boogie boarding, and now he’s sharing his treasure.
I stopped eating food that comes in a package. I’ve never felt better.
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The Whole30 diet worked wonders. But it won’t work for you if you hate cooking or can’t give up happy hour.
Could shift work cause you to grow older faster?
A new study shows that long-time shift workers had an average cognitive decline equivalent to 6.5 years of aging.
As Ebola infection rate falls in Liberia, focus shifts to prevention of flare-up
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The challenge now in West Africa is to keep new cases from exploding into a new outbreak of the disease.
Why the world's most effective HIV drug has helped so few
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Truvada has been approved for people who have been exposed to the virus but are not yet infected.
For older patients, hospitals can be a place to be saved from
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Grandma, 93, lost all sense of place when hospitalized. Her family made sure her last weeks were at home.
Hospitals begin caring about good customer service
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After Medicare began tracking patient satisfaction, administrators began to take notice and change.
Obama administration fines Hyundai, Kia $100 million
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The government says the automakers understated greenhouse-gas emissions from1.2 million cars.
Devices can help monitor hypertension and diabetes
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Consumer products can track calories and sleep, but others have yet to prove their value.
Red wine’s ‘healthy’ ingredient might limit exercise benefits, study finds
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Resveratrol has been revered as magical compound for health, but new research questions that idea.
Dozens of gene defects are linked to autism
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Major studies of the development disorder suggest possible targets for treatment in the future.
Federal agency accuses Gerber of false claim about formula
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The company denies it misled consumers about a product’s ability to reduce the risk of allergies.
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