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    Are There Any Mothers Out There Like Me?

    A week later, I was in the office of my OB-GYN, telling her about my plans for artificial insemination.“Congratulations,” she said, the first I’d...

    Have a Creepy, Crawly Halloween

    “Insects in the home produced more disgust in the brain than insects in the wild, especially cockroaches,” said Dr. Eric Schumacher, director of Georgia...

    What Losing My Father Taught Me About Parenting, Planets and Pain

    When we said goodbye, last New Year’s Eve, my father had already become hard of hearing. The end was very near. In our final...

    Ancient Dog DNA Shows Early Spread Around the Globe

    Among the other findings, Dr. Larson said he found it particularly intriguing that once dogs had become domesticated, and even while they were sometimes...

    Chris Pendergast, Who Fought A.L.S. Mile After Mile, Dies at 71

    In addition to his wife, Christine (Martin) Pendergast, a past president of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association on Long Island, he is survived...

    How to Run a Race in a Time of Surging Coronavirus

    At the Grand Canyon Trail Half Marathon on Nov. 7, one of the few longer events scheduled to take place this fall in-person, participants...

    A Lullaby by Any Other Name Would Sound as Sweet

    Babies love lullabies, and a new study suggests they don’t much care what culture the songs come from, what language they are sung in,...

    Living in Noisy Neighborhoods May Raise Your Dementia Risk

    Long-term exposure to noise may be linked to an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.Researchers did periodic interviews with 5,227...

    The Healing Power of Singing

    Years ago, I took to the stage with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir. We sang Handel’s Messiah, Fauré’s Requiem and the Dream of Gerontius...

    She Had a Headache for Months. Then She Could Barely See.

    The 61-year-old woman put on her reading glasses to try to decipher the tiny black squiggles on the back of the package of instant...

    Why False Positives Merit Concern, Too

    The ever-increasing availability of virtual platforms might make that transition easy for some, Dr. Mazer said. But for people whose work can only be...

    Respecting Children’s Pain – The New York Times

    The second goal was to make pain understood. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Eccleston said, research has elucidated the pain system, including the...

    Are ‘Kidfluencers’ Making Our Kids Fat?

    “It looks like a normal child playing with their normal games, but as a researcher who studies childhood obesity, the branded products really stood...

    Pfizer CEO All but Rules Out Covid-19 Vaccine Before Election Day

    After weeks of dangling the possibility of coronavirus vaccine results by October, Pfizer’s chief executive said on Tuesday that would now be nearly impossible.The...

    Dr. Joyce Wallace, Pioneering AIDS Physician, Dies at 79

    Dr. Joyce Wallace, a Manhattan internist who treated prostitutes for AIDS, occasionally brought streetwalkers home with her when they had nowhere else to go.Once,...

    Covid-19 Deaths: The Price for Not Wearing Masks is Perhaps 130,000 Lives

    Follow our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic here.Universal mask use could prevent nearly 130,000 deaths from Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus,...