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Who Are You Going to Vote For?

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

Truth and investment: lies are told to those who care.

Participants discussed paintings they liked and disliked with artists who were or were not personally invested in them. Participants were urged to be honest or polite or were given no special instructions. There were no conditions under which the artists received totally honest feedback about the paintings they cared about. As predicted by the defensibility postulate, participants stonewalled, ...

Fecal calprotectin concentrations are higher in exclusively breastfed infants compared to those who are mixed-fed.

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that giving other foods while breastfeeding increases the risk of mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1. The mechanism is speculated to be increased inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. METHODS In a prospective longitudinal study, we compared fecal calprotectin, a marker of intestinal inflammatory disease, in he...

Supporting Those Who Go to Fight Ebola

1 Stanford Law School, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 3 Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 4 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Ma...