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Lying to yourself — or self-deception, as psychologists call it — actually has benefits sometimes. Based on a growing body of research using new experimental techniques to induce and analyze self-deception, researchers are finding that most people lie to themselves at least some of the time. Sue Shellenbarger explains on Lunch Break.

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In the long struggle to figure out how to get new therapies quickly from the lab to the clinic, Susan Desmond-Hellmann has seen almost every side.

Here’s what’s making health news today:

Health-Law Case Puts Roberts in Crucible (WSJ): The chief justice left himself room to uphold the health-care overhaul and stay in line with his comments made during this week’s oral arguments, though he seems more skeptical of the law than Justice Anthony Kennedy.

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UCLA researchers studying middle-class families find that U.S. kids tend to be dependent on their parents for tasks they can do themselves, as WSJ reports, but when does leaning on a parent become problematic and how can parents teach kids to be more independent?

For several years, Medicare’s Hospital Compare initiative has published quality measures for hospitals. While the data are intended to help patients make better decisions, some experts have noted that the public nature of the information might also help spur lower-performing hospitals to shape up, improving the quality of care.

Treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia, a type of cancer that forms in the bone marrow, has been improved significantly using a therapy that combines arsenic trioxide, a traditional Chinese medicine, with the chemo drug ATRA (otherwise known as all-trans retinoic acid).

Researchers are making slow progress in understanding the numerous ailments that a growing number of people suffer after eating foods with gluten, a protein found in wheat.

The journal Science has now fully retracted a paper it published in 2009 that linked chronic fatigue syndrome to the retrovirus XMRV.

Central to the drug-shortage issue is a chicken-and-egg question that often leaves legislators scratching their heads at congressional hearings.

Chicken: Are the shortages of crucial drugs caused by factory flaws and shutdowns? Or egg: Are shortages somehow caused by economics, like the thin profit margins of generic drugs?

A federal report to be released Thursday comes down with both feet in the chicken camp.