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    Vegetarian or Vegan? Watch Your Bone Health

    Vegetarian diets are generally considered healthy, but new research suggests they may have a significant risk: an increased chance of bone fractures.Between 1993 and...

    Good Sleep Habits Tied to Lower Risk of Heart Failure

    A combination of healthy sleep habits may help reduce the risk for heart failure, new research suggests.Scientists studied 408,802 generally healthy people aged 27...

    Giving Thanks for My Imperiled Nurse

    One of the people I credit with extending my life is struggling for her own. Over the past eight years, Alesha Arnold has served...

    The Risks of Another Epidemic: Teenage Vaping

    In a review published last December in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, Dr. Rome and her co-author, Perry Dinardo, challenged the public perception...

    Premature Birth Tied to Increased Depression Risk

    Girls born extremely prematurely may have an increased risk of depression from childhood through young adulthood.Using Finnish birth and health registries, researchers studied 37,682...

    Holiday Table Decoration Activity – The New York Times

    This Thanksgiving, whether you’re hosting guests or sharing a meal via Zoom, it’s worth the effort to dress up your table to make the...

    Being Thankful and Hopeful in This Weird and Terrible Year

    My own decision — if there was any decision — was made less complicated by the fact that I’m working in Italy, so I...

    AstraZeneca and Oxford Say Vaccine Is Up to 90 Percent Effective

    The drug maker AstraZeneca announced on Monday that an early analysis of its late-stage clinical trials in Britain and Brazil showed that its coronavirus...

    Why Are States Imposing Virus Curfews?

    State and city leaders are trying to slow the spread of the coronavirus without full lockdowns. But whether curfews will help remains unclear. Source link...

    Ad Council’s Challenge: Persuade Skeptics to Believe in Covid Vaccines

    Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania conducted a study during a measles outbreak last year and concluded that “a relatively high number of individuals...

    Bill Gates, the Virus and the Quest to Vaccinate the World

    So far, it has pulled in only $3.6 billion in funding for research, manufacturing and subsidies for poor countries. Three companies have promised to...

    Improve Emergency Care? Pandemic Helps Point the Way

    This crowding and its adverse consequences are problems in other countries, too. A 2018 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper examined emergency department...

    Can an Algorithm Prevent Suicide?

    The algorithm is built on an analysis of thousands of previous suicides in the V.A.’s database, dating to 2008. The computer mixes and shuffles...

    Snapshots of Daily Life in a Remote Region of Portugal

    At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with travel restrictions in place worldwide, we launched a new series — The World Through a Lens...

    Hospitals, Health Care Workers Issue a Call to Arms for Wearing Masks

    “Our shields are worn. Our resolve is being tested.”So say the most immediate, frontline health care workers in a new ad campaign as the...

    World Health Organization Rejects Antiviral Drug Remdesivir as Covid-19 Treatment

    The World Health Organization on Thursday recommended against using the antiviral remdesivir, a drug that had generated intense interest as a treatment for Covid-19.An...