Military veterans who attempt suicide are not only at high risk of another suicide attempt, but have an overall heightened risk of death from all causes, new research shows.

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For all the lead-up to having a baby, newborns don’t do much: eat, sleep, poop. Pooping happens without any parental intervention. Eating is a function of breast or bottle. But, ah, sweet slumber — that is the wild card. It’s among the first cringe-inducing questions lobbed at new moms and dads. How is she sleeping? [...]

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WASHINGTON Federal health regulators have concerns about bladder and breast cancer seen in patients taking an experimental diabetes pill from Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca. The Food and Drug Administration said in an online review Friday that there were more cases of cancer among patients taking the company’s drug than those taking a dummy pill. It [...]

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A coalition of the nation’s largest food makers on Thursday unveiled a plan to set new nutrition standards for foods that can be advertised to children. The standards include reducing sugar, salt, calories and trans fat and saturated fat. But, they still fall short of recommendations proposed by the Obama administration in April. “We have [...]

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A mustached tamarin For any species hoping to survive in the wild, the lifetime to-do list is agreeably brief: eat, mate, defend your turf and, above all, protect your young. It’s that last one that seems the most primally encoded, and for good reason: it’s hardly possible to pass on your genes if your babies [...]

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