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Selling “Pink Viagra”
Read more: Selling “Pink Viagra”NYT Business article about the efforts to make and market a female sex pill. Regulators and doctors tend to be less tolerant of side effects in quality-of-life drugs than they are in medicines intended to mitigate life-and-death diseases. Some industry critics, meanwhile, contend that in the quest to find new and treatable quality-of-life problems,…
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“Twilight” Addiction
Read more: “Twilight” AddictionThe L.A. Times looks at the “Twilight” obsession, opening with: Chrystal Johnson didn’t think there was anything unhealthy about her all-consuming fixation with “The Twilight Saga” — until she discovered it was sucking the life out of her marriage…
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Machines on the March
Read more: Machines on the MarchOne computer can detect depression in blog posts. Another can win at Jeopardy! Next: ?
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Insomnia Q&A
Read more: Insomnia Q&AA Q&A about insomnia is underway on the NYT’s Consults blog. Starter questions: Does Insomnia Always Have an Underlying ‘Cause’? Can You Die of Insomnia?