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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Matt Harper // Dickinson College “College students pop pain relievers like candy.” That’s how a friend put it to me recently. I didn’t disagree. We all know the brand names —Advil, Motrin, Aleve—of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Matt Harper // Dickinson College, Rachel Hurnyak // Dickinson College, Jon Peters // Swarthmore College Approximately 47 million Americans-16 percent of the population-do not have health insurance, and the front-running presidential candidates have...
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Dec 19, 2007 08:45 PM
by Jonathan Peters // Swarthmore Teenage suicide rates rose in 2004 for the first time in over a decade, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control. Suicide is now the third-largest cause of death among teens, but the increase of...
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Dec 19, 2007 08:38 PM
by Ashley Aiken // Linfield College I never thought my mom and Pamela Anderson could have something in common. And then, when I was ten, my mom got her boob job. It was 1994, and plastic surgery was still a fairly hush-hush topic, especially in my suburban...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:28 PM
by Lindsay Funston // University of Oregon Beth Calano, a senior at Mt. Holyoke, pays for her own groceries, books, entertainment—and birth control. Contraception costs weren’t usually too steep: she happily traded $10 every month for the Pill’s protection....
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Dec 19, 2007 04:59 PM
by Sharon Tharp // The College of New Jersey When Kelly Gallimore, a senior at Millersville University in Millersville, Penn., heard about Gardasil, the first approved vaccine for Human Papillomavirus (HPV), she talked to her doctor right away about getting...
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Dec 19, 2007 03:31 PM
by Daniela Bloch // Northwestern University I always knew I would get a nose job. Having spent my childhood years trying to tune out my family’s familiar phrases—“we’ll wait until it’s done growing” or “you could be the next Diane Sawyer”—it was finally...
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Sep 13, 2007 11:10 PM
by Maura Judkis // George Washington University Hours spent on treadmills and rowing machines may give you buns of steel and to-die-for legs, but some gym rats are taking their workouts too far. Colleges across the U.S. are now dealing with a new type...
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Sep 12, 2007 10:03 PM
by Sarah Kliff // Washington University additional reporting by Brittany Farb and Rebecca Katz // Washington University Rebecca Corman thinks about her health, maybe even more than most. She played volleyball at her high school in California and, now...
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Sep 12, 2007 09:38 PM
by Sarina Rosenberg // Northwestern University Colleges no longer bat an eye at offering students extra time for tests or an array of on-campus counseling. But now some university health officials say they’re facing disability requests of a different...
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