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...plans for Father's Day? No. I try not to celebrate Father's Day; it's my wife who insists on doing it. If she can ratchet up Father's Day, it means Mother's Day is that much bigger. That's the only reason it gets celebrated. It's a phony holiday...
...boys. It's easy to see how an outsized sense of perfectionism in a female might lead to an unhealthy obsession with thinness - given society's preoccupation with physical appearance - while a male might end up obsessing about cars or trains, which is typical in autistic boys. "The reason [Asperger's] is usually diagnosed less often in females may be because it takes a different form - anorexia may be just one of the forms," says Baron-Cohen, adding that there are likely multiple routes leading to anorexia and that autistic features may not factor in all of them...
...California at Riverside offers several fascinating competing theories about why same-gender sexual behavior has endured. And although it's gay-pride month - and the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots that sparked the gay-rights movement - not all the theories will give same-gender-loving humans a reason to celebrate. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...Many people have long assumed that health-care reform would be a cure for overburdened EDs. But while a growing number of uninsured Americans are getting medical care that way, they are not the major reason EDs are becoming standing-room only; uninsured patients make up less than 20% of ED populations, and the number of uninsured ED patients is growing at a slower rate than that of patients with private or public insurance. Instead, the culprits of ED overcrowding are many of the same ones contributing to the entire health system's woes. Among them: insured patients who come...
...Whether insured or uninsured people are crowding in, an overreliance on EDs means that less preventive medicine and less chronic-disease management is happening, which is part of the reason prevention is a central tenet of the current health-care-reform discussion. In other words, if the ED is the last, and sometimes only, resort for very sick people, then the health-care system as a whole is still very ill. "We can't hospitalize our way to human health," says Asplin. "One of the tragedies of the uninsured is that when they get to us, sometimes...