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Many women with early-stage breast cancer can skip chemotherapy without hurting their odds of beating the disease, finds a major new study. A gene test can determine who could benefit from chemo and also identify which patients can instead use alternate treatments.

Sugar-sweetened drinks can increase your chances of developing diabetes and heart disease, confirms new research. Not only that, but drinks with sugar or high fructose corn syrup can lead to excess weight gain as well. The average American consumes at least one such drink every day.

And... tired of buying new razors and razor burn? How about using a laser instead? Developers are working on a razor that uses a laser instead of a blade. Before you imagine blinding or burning yourself with such a razor, the developers say the device's power is so low, that that won't be an issue. If this does comes to production, I wouldn't to pass out at some college party in the future, though... you might wake up completely bald.

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