Britain’s desperate attempt to curb a second wave of the coronavirus has exposed multiple fractures in its politics and society, but perhaps none as jagged…
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Think You Have ‘Normal’ Blood Pressure? Think Again
The study, directed by Dr. Seamus P. Whelton, cardiologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Baltimore,…
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Recognizing Miscarriage as an Occasion for Grief
There is a tendency to pathologize this grief, Dr. Hiefner said; if a 5-year-old died, no one would think it was comforting to say, “Oh…
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A Viral Theory Cited by Health Officials Draws Fire From Scientists
As the coronavirus pandemic erupted this spring, two Stanford University professors — Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Scott W. Altas — bonded over a shared…
View More A Viral Theory Cited by Health Officials Draws Fire From ScientistsDoctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Your Head
After millenniums of careful slicing and dicing, it might seem as though scientists have figured out human anatomy. A few dozen organs, a couple hundred…
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Driving Lessons With a Whiff of Mortality
Google Maps won’t tell you where Ray Charles is spending eternity, but my 16-year-old son, Sebastian, can take you there. I admit this is an…
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When We Can Hug Again, Will We Remember How It Works?
Alexis Block was worried that the robot she’d built was malfunctioning. She was testing the optimal hug duration for her “HuggieBot 1.0,” a purple-furred, on-demand…
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Some Signs of Recovery From Severe Covid
Even some patients originally deemed as candidates for a lung transplant managed to recuperate and go home without needing one, said Dr. Tiago Noguchi Machuca,…
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Dr. Solhaug’s observations are aligned with psychological research on the benefits of being in nature, which indicates that even short amounts of time spent outdoors…
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Drug May Extend A.L.S. Patients’ Lives by Several Months, Study Finds
[Like the Science Times page on Facebook. | Sign up for the Science Times newsletter.] The A.L.S. Association is urging the Food and Drug Administration…
View More Drug May Extend A.L.S. Patients’ Lives by Several Months, Study FindsThe Challenges of Remote Learning for Children Who Stutter
Use jokes to self-disclose The effort and anxiety of trying to hide a stutter is worse for most people than being disfluent, said Diane Paul,…
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