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What's the next big thing in medicine? If you ask Gwyneth Paltrow, it's psychedelics. When the healthy-living guru was recently interviewed by The New York Times, she had some intriguing ideas about the future. While drugs like these are, at the moment, more likely to be associated with hippies and…
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Baby Anna suffers from an ultra-rare, one in 200,000 condition which makes her skin regenerate at 10 times the normal rate. As a result of the issue, Anna's skin is cracked, hard and flaky, with white diamond patterns, something that almost cost her her life. Now, Anna's mother Jennie Riley…
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A waitress from Fort Wayne, Indiana, has recently gone viral after posting a Facebook status about a homophobic comment made to her by a customer. Michele Crider had just finished servicing two customers at the Dash-In restaurant that she works in, when she found a surprising note. One of the…
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Wyley Simpson, a 28-year-old transgender man from Texas, discovered he was pregnant in February 2018. The news came as a surprise, since he had been undergoing hormone therapy for six years. While taking testosterone, his body experienced a slew of changes, and doctors said he would be unable to get…
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We often take for granted simple gestures of affection; even something as straightforward as giving someone a kiss. One person who knows this all too well is 32-year-old Craig Fountain. Craig, who has cancer of the bowels, was left with toxic saliva as a result of his chemotherapy. The cancer-stricken…
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Back in 1796, Edward Jenner took blister material from someone infected with cowpox, and used that material to protect someone from getting the deadly disease smallpox. Testing out his theory on several children including his own 11-month-old son (who survived), this was the first example of an arm-to-arm inoculation, and…
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When people undergo plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons, they usually have the intention of somehow "improving" their appearance. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out that way. Jennifer, a 40-year-old woman from Fort Lauderdale in Florida, recently underwent a rhinoplasty in order to change the shape of her nose. It had…
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Conversations surrounding gender and sex have exploded in the last decade or so. With each passing day, more and more people feel comfortable enough to either identify as 'gender neutral' or adopt a gender neutral lifestyle. This means they do not associate with policies, language, and other social norms that…
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In May 2018, Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson were spotted leaving a Lauryn Hill concert together at the Apollo Theatre in New York. It was the start of a beautiful, but intensely private, relationship that, still to this day, has not been officially confirmed. Fans of the pair have been…
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A Greek-Cypriot model aims to challenge your ideas of conventional body types by posing for photos with a unique facial feature - her thick, bushy unibrow. Sophia Hadjipanteli, who was born in Cyprus but has since moved to the United States, reveals that she lets her eyebrows grow naturally as…
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Ginny Seaboy and Julia James have the distinction of being the world's first legally-married transgender couple. The couple first met back in 2009 on an online forum for trans people, and discovered they had an immediate connection. They went on a date near to Ginny's work, and married a year…
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Folks, I was never great at science in school. I never understood the calculations, the equations, or the experiments where you had to mess around with chemicals. It just wasn't for me. And yet, there is one formula of which I am absolutely sure would stand up to strenuous scientific…
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