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Parasocial Relationships: How Celebrities Influence Your Decisions

>> September 4, 2022

If you’ve ever felt connected to a movie star or celebrity, you’ve experienced a parasocial relationship. This one-sided connection gives the celebrity influence over your daily decision making and creates a feeling of friendship with someone you’ve never met. …

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Medical Notes: August 21, 2022

>> August 21, 2022

Report says efforts to improve children’s health habits have largely failed How can we raise a healthier generation? A report in the journal Pediatrics has determined that efforts to improve the health habits of children have largely failed. …

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The Sleepiest Workers? Your Local Police

>> January 23, 2022

Studies show that law enforcement is the most sleep deprived of all professions, with potentially damaging and even fatal consequences for decision-making and reaction time, as well as long-term health damage. Experts discuss the unique challenges in having a …

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Are Regular People Equipped to Make Complicated Medical Decisions?

>> October 17, 2021

Patients have to make medical choices today that they never did before. But do they have enough information to make those choices? Are normal people able to understand the flood of information and the medical terms to make good choices? An expert discusses how …

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Rules For Who Lives, Who Dies in the Pandemic

>> April 26, 2020

A lack of ventilators potentially puts doctors in the position of deciding which of their Covid-19 patients get a ventilator and live, and which ones don’t get one and die. New rules for making such decisions have been released which are designed to be fair …

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The Sleep Deprivation of Local Police

>> December 1, 2019

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Medical Notes: August 21, 2022

The Sleepiest Workers? Your Local Police

Are Regular People Equipped to Make Complicated Medical Decisions?

The Sleep Deprivation of Local Police

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