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https://www.nextbigfuture.com

It's a question that everybody's asking, since everyone knows someone who has been diagnosed or is currently dealing with some form of cancer: just how close are we to curing the disease?

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Lee is an epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts who focuses on how physical activity can promote health and prevent chronic disease. Her latest study is actually about steps. Specifically: How many, or how few, an older pe

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"The basic finding was that at 4,400 steps per day, these women had significantly lower mortality rates compared to the least active women," Lee explains. If they did more, their mortality rates continued to drop, until they reached about 7,500 s

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https://news.yahoo.com by Ivan Couronne

US scientists who studied the performance of myriad athletes -- including adventurous souls who spent five long months running across the United States -- have come up with an estimate of the absolute physiological boundary of human endurance.

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https://www.theorganicprepper.com

I work in a regional ER serving a community of 200,000 people and I thought it might be interesting to look at the patients I saw, from an austere/survival medicine perspective, on a recent night shift. On this night, I saw or supervised the care of

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