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Height and hormones. Should birth control be free? Does coffee prevent Alzheimer's disease? Should medical journalists be advocating early mammograms? Competition alert: Ed Yong is now a full-time freelance, gulp. Get your Google+ invite here.

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Personal blogging is dead because of Google+. Or not. By faking a vaccination program, the CIA gets bin Laden family DNA. Or not. In any case, public health authorities are outraged and fear more anti-vaccine propaganda.

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SciAm's new blog network is up, with 55 swell bloggers. How can the rest of us get any work done? A new autism twin study says environment matters more than genes, but others don't agree. Does which one matters more really matter?

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The World Conference of Science Journalists meets, greets, and tweets. Free E. coli papers. Pharma STEPS toward getting docs to prescribe more drugs. Drug effects in the elderly. New blogs from Kaiser Health News, JAMA, and Laura Newman.

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It's E. coli all the way down--with an impressive moral dimension.

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Dethroning microbes. Farewell, arsenic bug. So long, XMRV.

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Rescheduled Rapture. Raptures for the feisty, spunky, plucky little Mars Spirit Rover. Should science writers be in the debunking business? Happy Birthday, Last Word on Nothing. Once more, arsenic bugging.

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