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For Pete's Sake, Don't Sleep Or Swim In Your Contact Lenses
Contact lenses are so ubiquitous — about 41 million people in the U.S. wear them — that it's easy to forget that they're actual medical devices, with… -
Falls From Strollers And Baby Carriers Can Cause Serious Injuries
When parents are trying to keep their children safe, one of the things many do is to transport their kids in a stroller or baby carrier.While strollers… -
Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?
Standing before several dozen students in a college classroom, Travis Rieder tries to convince them not to have children. Or at least not too many.He's at… -
To Fight Off Diabetes, Latina Women Find Power In A Group
Beatrice Sanchez and Mariana Arias drive around their city, Winston-Salem, N.C., in search of a very specific population of residents: Latinos with… -
Study Of Sudden Cardiac Death Exposes Limits Of Genetic Testing
Scientists have discovered that a common cause of sudden heart death has been misunderstood because researchers didn't appropriately account for racial… -
Scientists Engineer An Opioid That May Reduce Pain With Less Risk
Once people realized that opioid drugs could cause addiction and deadly overdoses, they tried to use newer forms of opioids to treat the addiction to its… -
20 Science Questions For The Presidential Candidates
Science and politics do not always make great bedfellows.It's a topic we have explored a lot here at 13.7. As the past few decades have shown, science and… -
What Does It Take To Map A Walrus Hangout? 160 Years And A Lot Of Help
In 1874, when the painter and naturalist Henry Wood Elliott was observing a small crowd of walruses on the Punuk Islands off Alaska's coast, he was… -
Abuse In Childhood Raises The Risk Of Early Death For Women
It's increasingly clear that bad experiences during childhood are associated with long-lasting health effects, including higher rates of heart disease,… -
Aetna Joins Other Major Insurers In Pulling Back From Obamacare
Insurance giant Aetna will stop selling health insurance through most of the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act in 2017 because the company said…