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Share Your Best Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes and Stories
By The New York TimesThis year’s “Vegetarian Thanksgiving” will be a selection of readers’ recipes and the personal stories behind them.Read more…
Genetic Variant May Shield Latinas From Breast Cancer
By Anahad O'ConnorA new study’s findings may explain why Hispanic women have lower rates of breast cancer than other Americans.Read more…
Robotic Surgery Report Card
By Nicholas BakalarA study found that robotic surgery for benign gynecologic procedures had a higher rate of complication than conventional surgery, and was more costly.Read more…
A Weight Loss Belief Is Tested
By Nicholas BakalarA new randomized trial has found no long-term difference in weight regain among people who lost the pounds slowly and those who did so quickly.Read more…
Coffee May Protect the Liver
By Nicholas BakalarResearchers found that compared with people who drank no coffee, those who drank three cups a day were about 25 percent less likely to have abnormal liver enzyme levels.Read more…
Easing the Pain of Sickle Cell Disease
By Roni Caryn RabinSickle cell disease, a debilitating and sometimes life-threatening blood disorder, is relatively rare, so doctors may not know how to treat it.Read more…
Hard Lesson in Sleep for Teenagers
By Jane E. BrodyAdolescents who do not receive adequate rest have trouble keeping up in the classroom and are more vulnerable to other health problems. And catching up on sleep on the weekend won’t help.Read more…
Ask Well: Do Mosquitoes Spread Ebola?
By Donald G. McNeil Jr.Mosquitoes spread a number of life-threatening illnesses, but can they spread Ebola? Thankfully, the answer is no, and the reason has to do wtih the unusual feeding and egg-laying cycle of female mosquitoes.Read more…
Mistakes in Treating Childhood Fractures
By Jan HoffmanChildhood fractures are common, but the injuries are rarely treated correctly in emergency rooms, new research shows.Read more…
When Doctors and Nurses Work Together
By Pauline W. Chen, M.D.A group of doctors and nurses at Yale-New Haven Hospital has been quietly working to change the culture of “defensive medicine” that so many have come to accept as inevitable.Read more…