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If you have a daughter in high school or college, you’ve almost certainly warned her a hundred or so times to NEVER put down her drink or leave it unattended. That’s because the problem with date rape drugs like GHB and ketamine is that they’re odorless, colorless and tasteless. So if something gets slipped into a drink, the victim probably wouldn’t realize until it’s too late. Enter DrinkSavvy – a new startup that hopes to fight sexual assault by alerting people to what might be in their cup.

Have you ever stretched the truth about what goes on in your bedroom? If so, you’re not alone. A new study from Ohio State University at Mansfield found that most people of both genders lied about their sexual history – although in different ways.

Are dads just providing lip service to splitting childcare duties? A University of Virginia study of 181 married, heterosexual professors with toddlers, found that only three male faculty took paternity leave while 70 female faculty took maternity leave.

Have you ever been told that proper hydration comes from gulping down eight cups of water every day? Turns out, that little bit of popular wisdom might be more fiction than fact. Researchers say the advice is an “urban myth” as it neglects the water content of healthy foods – and even the water content in coffee, tea and juices.

Did you know that cancer kills more people worldwide than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined? Today is World Cancer Day – an annual event organized by the Union for International Cancer Control to raise awareness for a disease that affects millions of people around the globe. Activists say the event is meant to help dispel the myth that cancer is only a concern for industrialized nations, rather than developing countries. The scary truth is that cancer rates are increasing in developing nations – for a variety of reasons.