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When you think of legendary fighters, you think Ali, Tyson, Lewis—and you also think Balboa. Even though Sylvester Stallone's Rocky is a fictional fighter, with a statue at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, he's solidified legendary status. And as it turns out, Stallone's training for the character was equally as punishing as what real boxers go through.In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Stallone explained the lengths he went to to prepare for Rocky III, when his character was facing off against Clubber Lang (Mr. T.)."My entire breakfast would be maybe two [small] oatmeal cookies made with brown rice, and 10 cups of coffee because I wanted to keep my body fat down to 2.8%," explains Stallone. "I was forgetting my phone number. I was eating just tuna fish. My memory was shot, it w...

Jordan Neely’s heartbreaking, haunting, and cruel killing on the subway was a direct result of our city and state’s systemic failures to provide a comprehensive continuum of services and support with appropriate follow up and accountability — a view widely shared by leaders of 45 mental health advocacy agencies in a recent statement.There is ample evidence that Neely had contact with a broad array of shelters, clinics, hospitals, street outreach teams, case management programs, and criminal justice and social service organizations. Our systems had more than a decade to meaningfully engage Neely and to provide him with sustained follow-up services and supports. Yet, at the time of his death, he had been identified by the city as one of the “top 50″ homeless individuals most urgently in nee...

Prostate cancer is generally viewed as a disease of older men. Yet about 10% of new diagnoses occur in men age 55 or younger, and these early-onset cancers often have a worse prognosis. Biological differences partially explain the discrepancy. For instance, early-onset prostate cancers contain certain genetic abnormalities that don’t appear as often in older men with the disease.But socioeconomic factors also play an important role, according to new research by investigators at Jacksonville College of Medicine (JCM) in Florida. The fact that poverty, educational status, and other factors governing socioeconomic status (SES) influence cancer survival is well established.This is the first study to investigate how SES affects survival in early-onset prostate cancer specifically. The findings...

The prosecution of a former Harvard Medical School employee over an alleged human remains theft ring prompted experts to call for federal rules on a practice that they said is largely unregulated and has grown in recent years with the rise of for-profit “body brokers."The school’s anatomical donation program, which employed a manager accused of illegally selling body parts to a nationwide network of buyers, is like dozens of others across the country that are trying to “help advance science and education,” said Thomas Champney, a bioethics expert at the University of Miami.But unlike organ donation, which is closely regulated under the 1968 Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, there are few rules that govern nonprofit programs or businesses that sell donated bodies to medical device makers, law ...

"I can’t do anything right.""I do not enjoy life.""My life is not useful."The share of teens who agree with these phrases has doubled over the past decade, according to an annual poll conducted by the University of Michigan — and one expert asserts that the increase in depressive symptoms is tied to the rise of social media.SURGEON GENERAL RELEASES ADVISORY CALLING FOR IMPROVED SOCIAL CONNECTIONIn her book, "Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents — and What They Mean for America’s Future," Dr. Jean Twenge, a psychologist and a professor at San Diego State University, highlighted the poll’s results as a means of linking the spike in teen depression to the increase in social media use. The share of teens who agree with these phrases has dou...

I was well into adulthood when I realized that hiking was an activity that I could participate in. I grew up with multiple disabilities and chronic illnesses and thought being “outdoorsy” was only for able-bodied people. I couldn’t find information about hiking as a disabled person, so I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out for myself.Accessibility is improving, but there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Different disabilities — and even people with the same disability — have different needs. For instance, I look for trails that don’t have long inclines or obstacles like big rocks and steep stairs, are shady and wide enough to use a cane or trekking poles, and have benches or places to rest (I often bring a collapsible chair).Wheelchair accessibility, in particular, means differen...