More User-Friendly Psychotherapy, Genetic Risk Profiling, and the Secret to a Longer Life

Your couch or mine: Telephone therapy is almost as effective as face-to-face consultations for depression.

Birth control for weeds: A new way to use herbicides.

Can your genes predict Alzheimer’s? No.

Robbing the cradle is bad for women’s health: “Marrying an older man shortens a woman’s lifespan, but having a younger husband reduces it even more.”

5 thoughts on “More User-Friendly Psychotherapy, Genetic Risk Profiling, and the Secret to a Longer Life”

  1. The telephone story is not news. Anyone who has ever called his or her mother for a quick pep talk knows that it’s almost as good.

  2. About telephone therapy…

    Virginia, I’m waiting for psychotherapy by email or text message. Maybe even group therapy, where participants in a counseling session share 140-character “tweets” on Twitter back and forth between their therapist.

  3. Sounds like women lose out no matter what. But aren’t you ignoring that women outlive men by a considerable number of years.

  4. It sounds like they’re onto an easier way to keep those annoying seeds from ruining your sinsemilla.

  5. “Better to be an old man’s darling than a young man’s slave.” — English Proverb, current since the XVI century.

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