Christopher Wanjek is the author of the health books "Bad Medicine" and "Food At Work" and the novel "Hey, Einstein!" a comical nature-versus-nurture tale about raising clones of Albert Einstein in less-than-ideal settings. His column, Bad Medicine, appears regularly on LiveScience.
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Dietary Supplements: Too Much of a Good Thing?Americans are spending $23 billion a year on them, and the National Institutes of Health thinks that might be about $22.99 billion too much.
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Why did people start eating Egyptian mummies?Mummies have fascinated people for centuries, and have even been ground-up and used as medicines.
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Being a Night Owl Really Can Hurt Your Mental HealthMorning people have a lower risk for depression and other mental health concerns compared with night owls, but your natural sleeping pattern is strongly controlled by genes, a study finds.
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Men Who Smoke Pot May Have Lower Sperm CountRecreational marijuana use is becoming increasingly legal across the U.S., but that doesn't mean that it's safe.
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Salmonella Hides Its Tail to Stay Invisible to Immune SystemYou'd be hard-pressed to find someone to say something good about Salmonella...
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Brain Cancer's 'Immortality Switch' Turned Off with CRISPRResearchers have found a way to short-circuit the "immortality switch" that cancer cells use to divide indefinitely.
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How Close Are We, Really, to Curing Cancer with CRISPR?The promise of CRISPR is being realized today in the lab through the creation of special animal models and cell lines. And the technology is finally entering the clinic to treat humans directly.
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Could Aspirin Help Prevent Alzheimer's Disease? Mouse Study Says Maybe.Scientists have found how aspirin might help prevent Alzheimer's disease by helping cells clear the debris that leads to amyloid plaque formation.
