What becomes of Times Square when you take away hundreds of thousands of cheering, shivering New Year’s Eve revelers? It may no longer be the…
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What Can Be Learned From Differing Rates of Suicide Among Groups
It’s a much debated connection. A recent systematic review of studies found that attending religious service is not especially protective against suicidal ideation (thinking about…
View More What Can Be Learned From Differing Rates of Suicide Among GroupsMore Contagious Coronavirus Variant Found in Colorado
A case of the more contagious coronavirus variant first discovered in Britain was found in Colorado on Tuesday, Gov. Jared Polis said. It is the…
View More More Contagious Coronavirus Variant Found in ColoradoYou’re Infected With the Coronavirus. But How Infected?
As Covid-19 patients flood into hospitals nationwide, doctors are facing an impossible question. Which patients in the E.R. are more likely to deteriorate quickly, and…
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Runners’ Post-Pandemic Dreams – The New York Times
This was a different and difficult year for running, with the Olympics delayed, major marathons and races canceled, and even group runs largely off the…
View More Runners’ Post-Pandemic Dreams – The New York TimesH. Jack Geiger, Doctor Who Fought Social Ills, Dies at 95
Drawing physicians out of the clinic and into the political fray “was a really signal event,” said Dr. Robert Gould, a pathologist in San Francisco…
View More H. Jack Geiger, Doctor Who Fought Social Ills, Dies at 95Don’t Let the Pandemic Stop Your Shots
Experts fear that vaccination rates may have fallen further during the pandemic, as they have among children, if older people wary of going to doctors’…
View More Don’t Let the Pandemic Stop Your ShotsHer Stomach Hurt Unbearably. Her Doctors Were Baffled.
She called her mother. What did birth-control pills do to you? she asked. It was terrible, her mother told her, and it took months to…
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The Risks of Using Steroids for Respiratory Infections
In an interview, Dr. Dvorin said that although steroids may make people euphoric, they can also “make some people feel pretty bad by causing anxiety,…
View More The Risks of Using Steroids for Respiratory InfectionsSoothing Anxiety and Stress: Advice From the Year in Well
For many of us, 2020 was an exceptionally stressful year, dominated by fears about the coronavirus pandemic. Even with the vaccine on the horizon, we’re…
View More Soothing Anxiety and Stress: Advice From the Year in WellNew Year’s Eve at Home
Along with so many things, the pandemic has dashed many of go-to New Year’s traditions — no raging clubs, no in-person ball drop, no kissing…
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