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Feed SubscriptionToo much sitting behind 92,000 cancer cases a year: Report
Ominous new report suggests that even regular workouts can't undo cancer-promoting effect of sedentary lifestyle
Read More »6 ways to sit less every day
Sedentary lifestyle linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, even death - here's how to fight back
Read More »Eek! Hair loss in women: Top 7 risk factors revealed
Can divorce make women lose their locks? How about high income
Read More »Noise to Signal: Yahoo Ties Its Future to Mobile Apps, Personalized TV Viewing
Yahoo is trying to put the focus back on the e-mail, content, advertising and other Web-based services it offers following the company’s unceremonious dumping of former CEO Carol Bartz in September and a growing din of speculation that the company may soon be bought . At a press event Wednesday hosted at its Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters, Yahoo touted several recently announced services, most of them relying on a higher degree of personalization to keep visitors within the company’s network of about 100 Web sites. Whether Yahoo’s approach to intensify personalization will stand out amidst similar efforts by other large providers of Web content and services Google , Facebook and Apple, to name just a few remains to be seen
Read More »Chantix-suicide link has some calling smoking-cessation drug last resort
New study shows Chantix much more likely than other smoking-cessation products to be associated with self-injury and suicide
Read More »Exploring the Red Planet
As NASA prepares to launch its new Curiosity Mars rover, we look back at some of the highlights--and the misfires--in more than 50 years of Mars missions [More]
Read More »Invisible Ink Reveals Cool Chemistry
Key concepts Chemistry [More]
Read More »Ridding body of old "zombie" cells slows aging process, study shows
New research could lead to drugs to slow development of heart disease, cancer, cataracts, and other aging-related disorders
Read More »One Tent-Dwelling Wall Street Occupier’s Quest For Something Concrete
Student debt reformer Alan Collinge has brought a clear set of demands--and little patience for general assembly dickering--to Occupy Wall Street. He belongs to a large--but not unified--contingent of pragmatic policy wonks in the movement.
Read More »Video: Inactivity linked to breast, colon cancer: study
Dr. Holly Phillips speaks to the "Early Show" anchors about a new study that reveals a strong connection between physical inactivity and a higher risk of colon and breast cancer.
Read More »Video: Olympic trainee survives battle with rare cancer
Michelle Miller profiles 21-year-old Meghan Kinney, who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer while she was training for the 2012 Olympics in synchronized swimming.
Read More »Study links sitting around to cancer
Research finds physical inactivity raises risk of breast, colon cancer -- may be cause of 92,000 new cases each year
Read More »Listeria death toll reaches 29
Eighth victim succumbs in Colorado, state where deadly outbreak originated
Read More »Digging Mars: Mars Science Lab Set to Blast Off (preview)
This month NASA plans to launch its latest and most sophisticated mission ever to the Red Planet: the Mars Science Laboratory. After a dramatic landing in Gale Crater using a skycrane for the final descent, the nuclear-powered rover will drive around one of the richest deposits of clays and sulfates on the planet--the remains of a water-rich era when rivers carved out valley networks. The size of a small car, the rover (named Curiosity) will spend a Martian year exploring the base of the central peak in the crater, thought to be the oldest section
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