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But which country comes first in happiness completely changes depending on how you measure.
But which country comes first in happiness completely changes depending on how you measure.
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Preventing the disease can improve the quality of life for thousands.
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Contaminated food from McDonald’s, Boar’s Head, and more is making Americans sick.
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The human mind is designed to predict, but uncertainty helps us thrive.
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Billions of dollars later, neuroscientists are still struggling to address the mental health crisis.
Rwandan public health officials have a strategy that could help prevent further outbreaks.
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Private equity decimated emergency care in the United States — without you even noticing.
New brain stimulation techniques could help scientists understand how meditation changes the mind.
America unintentionally built a health care system that is hard to fix.
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