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A recent study found Facebook users live longer. (Photo: iStock)

Live Long & Facebook?

Online Social Interactions, Long Life Linked Is social media good for you, or bad? Well, it’s complicated. A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using the social media site is associated with living longer – when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world
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In humans, women outlive men, according to a former Georgetown University lecturer. But they also appear to have poorer health through adult life. (Photo: iStock)

Battle of the Sexes

Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men? Women live longer than men. This simple statement holds a tantalizing riddle that Steven Austad and Kathleen Fischer of the University of Alabama at Birmingham explore in a perspective piece published in Cell Metabolism on June 14. “Humans are
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