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Why Women Have Bad Teeth

Hormonal and dietary changes related to pregnancy could explain why women tend to have worse dental health than men, an anthropologist says. Women have had the poorest oral health of the two sexes going back to the hunter-gatherer era.


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Parents Charged With Starving Teen Girl

Police charge a father and stepmother with criminal mistreatment after child welfare officials remove their 14-year-old daughter, weighing only 48 pounds, from their home near Seattle. Authorities accuse Jon Pomeroy and Rebecca Long of denying the girl food and water and punishing her when she drank water from the toilet.
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Googling Does a Brain Good, Study Finds

Forget the crossword puzzles and brainteasers. A new study conducted at UCLA finds that a group of Web-savvy older adults searching online had more than twice the brain activity than their less experienced counterparts.


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Bottled Water Impure, Too, Study Finds

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Testing on 10 brands of bottled water finds several chemicals often found in drinking water, including caffeine, fertilizer and bacteria. All the brands met federal health standards for drinking water, but two of them violated a California state standard.


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Identical Triplets Beat 1-in-a-Million Odds

A couple from suburban New York have their hands full these days: Kerry and Desmond Lyons just became the proud parents of three baby boys. And they'll have a hard time telling them apart, because the triplets are identical. The doctor who delivered them says the odds of such births are one in a million.
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Dealing With 'Irritable Male Syndrome'

Do you know a man who always seems to fly off the handle at the slightest provocation? A cranky guy may be just having a bad day. Or he may be suffering from a condition dubbed "Irritable Male Syndrome."
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