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Woman At Her Wits’ End Due To Husband’s Ex’s Abusive And Terrible Behavior, Wonders What To Do

A bad relationship can really affect your mental health, but a toxic ex can make it even worse by continuing to ruin your life. Some former partners just can’t seem to let go and think it’s okay to...

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Genetic Discrimination Is Coming for Us All

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The news came four years ago, at the end of a casual phone call. Bill’s family had always thought it was a f...

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Jails and prisons often fail to protect incarcerated people during natural disasters

People who are incarcerated can't protect themselves when a hurricane or wildfire threatens. Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesThe United States has almost 2 million people behind...

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Why involuntary medical admission and treatment won’t solve homelessness

The housing crisis is pushing more and more people onto the streets. More than one in 10 Canadians report experiencing some form of homelessness in their lifetime. Forced to camp out, homeless ...

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The Sanewashing of RFK Jr.

Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s improbable nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, actually such a crank? Short answer: yes. But two opinion pieces published in just the past f...

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Many elite women athletes don’t eat enough carbs, which can affect their performance and health

Just as a Formula 1 team wouldn’t use shoddy fuel for their cars, elite athletes shouldn’t eat poorly as they try to get the best out of themselves. Nutrition is crucial for fuelling athletes fo...

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Stop Looking at Your Therapist

A person who is “on the couch” is known to be in therapy, but most therapists these days don’t ask their clients to lie down. The first time mine did, I resisted. I didn’t want to be on display or ...

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Mariri Okutsu of Philosophy no Dance on the Value of Being Herself & Advocating for Mental Health: Billboard Japan Women in Music Interview

Philosophy no Dance’s Mariri Okutsu chatted with Billboard Japan for its Women in Music interview series featuring female players in the Japanese e...

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Public humiliation is still a common teaching tool in medical education. Here’s how it leaves patients worse off

Monkey Business Images/ShutterstockImagine being questioned about complex technical knowledge in front of your peers, supervisors, and members of the public – knowing that a wrong answer could lea...

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Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccines

When I was taking German in college in the early years of this millennium, I once stumbled upon a word that appeared foreign even when translated into English: Diphtherie, or diphtheria. “What’s di...

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Your Armpits Are Trying to Tell You Something

Sign up for Being Human, a newsletter that explores wellness culture, mortality and disease, and other mysteries of the body and the mind.The last time I sweated through my shirt, I vowed that it w...

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We’re About to Find Out How Much Americans Like Vaccines

Sign up for Being Human, a newsletter that explores wellness culture, mortality and disease, and other mysteries of the body and the mind.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee to be the next secretary...

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A Ridiculous, Perfect Way to Make Friends

Sign up for Being Human, a newsletter that explores wellness culture, mortality and disease, and other mysteries of the body and the mind.When I was teaching indoor cycling every week, an unexpecte...

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The ‘Breast-Cancer Gene’ Needs a Rebrand

Sign up for Being Human, a newsletter that explores wellness culture, mortality and disease, and other mysteries of the body and the mind.When Mary-Claire King discovered the first gene linked to h...

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“Dreading Christmas”: Man’s Food Policing Turns Marriage Into A Silent Battle Over Every Bite

Couple goals can be amazing—working out together, cooking healthy meals, and cheering each other on sounds great, right? But for one woman, her husband’s ultra-strict diet habits started spilling i...

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Australia introduces a bill that would ban children under 16 from social media

Australia’s majority party has introduced a bill in Parliament that would ban children under 16 from social media. The legislation, which would put the onus on social platforms rather than children...

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