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Alzheimer’s Spreads in the Brain Like a Virus, Studies Find
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 9:04pm EST by By GINA KOLATA
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The discovery in studies of mice solves a mystery surrounding the disease’s grim march and has immediate implications for developing treatments, researchers said.
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Op-Ed Contributor: Censorship Hinders Influenza Research
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:45pm EST by By Howard Markel
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The censorship of influenza research will do little to prevent its misuse — and it may hinder our ability to stop influenza outbreaks.
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Op-Ed Contributor: I Had Asperger Syndrome. Briefly.
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:23pm EST by By BENJAMIN NUGENT
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Asperger syndrome was the wrong diagnosis for me. I was really just an awkward teenager.
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Cancer Group Halts Financing to Planned Parenthood
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:07pm EST by By PAM BELLUCK
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure was accused of bowing to right-wing pressure in its decision.
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The New Old Age Blog: The Lioness in Winter
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:00pm EST by By PAULA SPAN
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"The Iron Lady" does not sidestep Margaret Thatcher's dementia.
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Op-Ed Contributor: Asperger’s History of Over-Diagnosis
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 11:37am EST by By PAUL STEINBERG
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People with social disabilities are not necessarily autistic, and giving them diagnoses on the autism spectrum often does a real disservice.
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National Briefing | Science: Panel Praises Removal of Details on Bird Flu
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 10:20am EST by By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
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Removing information from manuscripts describing experiments that made a lethal bird flu more likely to transmit among humans “maximized the benefits to society and minimized the risks,” the government’s biosecurity panel said.
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Well Blog: Phys Ed: Exercise as Housecleaning for the Body
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 9:55am EST by By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
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The ability of exercise to speed the removal of garbage from inside our body's cells may be one of its most valuable, if least visible, effects, a new study suggests.
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Frank Cioffi, Philosopher and Critic of Freud, Dies at 83
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:57am EST by By PAUL VITELLO
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Mr. Cioffi’s scathing critique of Sigmund Freud’s work was one of the opening salvos in the bitter debate in recent decades over the legitimacy of psychoanalytic theories.