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    C.D.C. Suggests Some Child-Care Centers Can Reopen Safely

    Outbreaks at U.S. colleges are forcing sudden changes and sending students scrambling. With cases surging, Europe braces for a new phase in the pandemic. Source...

    Covid-19 Updates: Global Death Toll Surpasses 800,000

    Global virus deaths surpass 800,000, with South and Central American countries seeing large tallies.The global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 800,000 on Saturday,...

    Why Getting Children Flu Shots Is Even More Important This Year

    Making sure that your kids get a yearly flu shot is always a good idea, but even more so this fall, as the coronavirus...

    Can Artificial Sweeteners Keep Us From Gaining Weight?

    Dr. Ludwig theorized that people who carry a lot of abdominal fat might benefit the most from replacing sugary beverages with diet beverages or...

    Covid-19 Live Updates: Outbreaks at U.S. Colleges Force Sudden Changes and Send Students Scrambling

    With cases surging, Europe braces for a new phase in the pandemic. U.S. debt is now larger than the size of the nation’s economy. Source...

    For Quick Coronavirus Testing, Israel Turns to a Clever Algorithm

    BEERSHEBA, Israel — A team of three Israeli scientists has pioneered a coronavirus testing procedure that they say is faster and more efficient than...

    In Pandemic, More Are Paying for Direct Access to Their Doctors

    This summer, she added a pop-up office in Southampton, N.Y., to serve clients who had fled the city. Taking over an empty office building,...

    Scarred by My Own Hands

    First, I said I was allergic to cats. Then I blamed a food allergy. Then mosquitoes. But this was all a lie. My scabs...

    Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Takes Steps to Protect Older People for Flu Season and Increase Child Vaccination Rates

    Overburdened health care specialists are finding themselves on the front lines as schools reopen. India’s crisis is now spreading to the hinterlands along its...

    Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Bagged Peaches Sickens Dozens

    The Food and Drug Administration is investigating bagged peaches as a likely source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 68 people across nine...

    Latif Nasser, Harvard Ph.D., on the Rewards of Being Dumb

    Latif Nasser’s new Netflix series, “Connected,” was only two days old when he and his wife headed to the hospital to have a baby....

    Is Resilience Overrated? – The New York Times

    When the levees broke and the city flooded, she was one month pregnant, newly married and learning how to be a parent to a...

    From Handshakes to Fist Bumps: The Future of the Business Greeting

    Ms. Meier has instructed her clients to try alternatives she calls a “grasp-and-greet” (hands clasped at chest level, combined with a polite nod) and...

    What if We Worried Less About the Accuracy of Coronavirus Tests?

    Accuracy is everything, typically, when we take a diagnostic test — an incorrect result can lead to anguish and erroneous, if not harmful, treatment....

    Pediatric Doctors Group Apologizes for Racist Past Toward Black Physicians

    As the field became more exclusive, it also became more white, according to Adam Biggs, a historian at the University of South Carolina. “When...

    The Glory (and the Taboo) of ‘WAP’

    I was thrilled to listen to and watch “WAP,” Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s recently released homage to female sexuality and vaginal, shall...