The New York Times explores how noise impacts health:
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Noise and health
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Fake sugars in your food
For The Washington Post, Anahad O’Connor, Aaron Steckelberg, and Laura Reiley visually describe…
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Countries with the longest healthy retirements
Bloomberg compared retirement years in the context of life expectancy and healthy life…
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Spotting spurious correlations in health news
When it comes to diet and health, you might see one day that…
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Code (data) as therapy
For Wired, Craig Mod writes about how he uses code as a way…
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Health conditions and income
A large proportion of those who died from Covid-19 had pre-existing medical conditions.…
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Happiness and Health
When one goes down, so does the other. If only there were a way to keep more people healthy.
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History of the health meter in video games
The health meter in video games wasn’t always so commonplace. It took time,…
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Bruises
Musician Kaki King’s daughter suffers from a condition (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura) where her…
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Gyroscope to automatically track your health data
I’m surprised I’m just now hearing about Gyroscope. It’s an app that automatically…
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Mapping the Spread of Obesity
A look at the rise for each state over three decades, for men and women.
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How Much Alcohol Americans Drink
Most people have one or two drinks on average, but some consume much more.
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Who Still Smokes?
Two decades out from the first statewide ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces, here’s who still smokes.
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Americans are Growing Bigger
We keep getting bigger. Watch overweight and obesity rates move up over several decades.
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National drug overdose epidemic
Nadja Popovich for the Guardian delves into America’s drug overdose epidemic, starting with…
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Change in the British diet, since 1974
From the Open Data Institute, an interactive looking at diet data made available…
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Million to One Shot, Doc
Between 2009 and 2014, there were an estimated 17,968 visits to the emergency room for things stuck in a rectum. Here are those things’ stories.
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Why People Visit the Emergency Room
These are the top 250 products that people injure themselves on or with in a year.
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Data on people who went to ER for wall-punching
Keith Collins for Quartz ran some quick numbers for people who visited the…
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Antibiotic history and the winning bacteria
We take antibiotics. Bacteria dies, but some lives, evolves and develops a resistance…