In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatient to get it on the market. But FDA medical ...

Brooke Scelza is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles’s department of anthropology. She is co-director of the Kunene Rural Health and Demography Project, where she studies ...

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Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...

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This episode is part of “Health Equity Heroes,” an editorially independent special project that was produced with financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Rachel Feltman: September is Prostate ...

Simple cues help people to distinguish song from the spoken word ...