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Great Vacation? Don’t Brag to Your Friends
By JAN HOFFMAN
When you rush to tell your friends about your amazing experience, they will crowd around you, eager for every delicious detail, right? Wrong.
Can you figure out what is causing a 68-year-old woman to lose her vision over the course of several months?
Katherine Streeter
After a fall, life is upended in an instant — a sudden loss of independence, an awkward reliance on family and friends, and a new level of fear for those who fall, and their contemporaries.
Steps to Avoid an Accident
By KATIE HAFNER
Experts who have studied falls wish that people would take measures to protect themselves much as they do against heart disease or viral infections.
Bracing for the Falls of an Aging Nation
By KATIE HAFNER
As Americans live longer, fall-related injuries and deaths are rising, and homes for the elderly are tackling the problem in ways large and small — even by changing the color of their carpeting and toilet seats.
Cassandra Giraldo for The New York Times
Gyms showed high levels of airborne dust, formaldehyde and carbon dioxide, all of which can pose problems for energetic, heavy-breathing exercisers.
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Low Birth Weight Tied to Hip Replacement in Adulthood
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Low birth weight and preterm birth significantly increase the risk for hip replacement in adulthood, a new study has found.
Study Points to Overdiagnosis of Thyroid Cancer
By GINA KOLATA
Soaring diagnoses in South Korea and elsewhere could be attributable to increased screening and could lead to unnecessary treatment.
Election Day Entailed Casting Votes for Soda Taxes and Food Issues Too
By STEPHANIE STROM
Food and biotech companies spent $60 million battling proposals dealing with what Americans can and cannot eat and drink.
Abortion-Rights Advocates Preparing for a New Surge of Federal and State Attacks
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Republican gains are likely to add to state abortion restrictions, from two-day waiting periods to bans at 20 weeks after conception to costly building requirements.
The New Old Age
A New Face on the End-of-Life Debate
By PAULA SPAN
The death of Brittany Maynard may reinvigorate discussions over aid-in-dying policies.
The Ebola Outbreak
Treating Those Treating Ebola in Liberia
By SHERI FINK
Tanya Bindra for The New York Times
American health care workers and members of the United States Public Health Service who will work at a new hospital were briefed upon arrival in Liberia.
A dedicated Ebola field hospital for health workers is scheduled to open Friday in Monrovia, Liberia, as part of an effort to ease the worries of would-be volunteers.
In Exclusive Club of U.S. Ebola Survivors, Kinship Is Sealed in Blood
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
After surviving the Ebola virus in August, Nancy Writebol, a 59-year-old missionary, donated blood plasma to Craig Spencer, the patient in New York.
Free of Ebola, Nurse’s Aide Leaves Spanish Hospital
By RAPHAEL MINDER
María Teresa Romero Ramos, 44, was found to be infected with the virus after treating a Spanish missionary who had returned from West Africa with the disease.
Obama Requests $6 Billion for Ebola
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
A White House official said most of the emergency funding would be for immediate response efforts.
Ask Well on Ebola
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Well: Emotion Is Not the Best Medicine, Ebola Case Further Shows
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Interactive Graphic: How the Speed of Response Defined the Ebola Crisis
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Well: Treating Disease, and Spreading It?
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Well: Ask Well: Is the Ebola Epidemic Ending in Africa?
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Video: Children and the Risk of Ebola
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Can You Get Ebola From a Toilet Seat?
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Can Ebola Be Transmitted in Semen?
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Can Pets Get Ebola?
Recipes for Health
Celery Root, Red Cabbage and Potato Colcannon
Martha Rose Shulman
Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times
Purple mashed potatoes add some color to the Thanksgiving table.
Colon Cancer Rates Rising in Young Adults
November 5, 2014
The Eczema and Broken Bone Connection
November 5, 2014
Placebo May Aid Baby’s Cough
November 3, 2014
Running While Pregnant
October 31, 2014
Low Vitamin D Tied to Asthma Attacks
October 31, 2014
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For a 7-Minute Workout, Try Our New App
By TARA PARKER-POPE
The New York Times is offering a free mobile app for the popular Scientific 7-Minute Workout and the new Advanced 7-minute Workout.
Picture Your Life
Faces of Breast Cancer
By TARA PARKER-POPE
If you live with breast cancer, love someone with breast cancer or worry about your risk for breast cancer, you are part of a global community of women and men whose lives have been touched by the disease.
Columns
Global Health
H.I.V. Patients in Yemen Face Hospital Evictions
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Patients infected with H.I.V. are being ordered out of hospitals in Yemen, even when they are in dire need of care, a human rights group says.
Q&A
A Gene by Any Other Name
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY
All human genes get three-to-five-letter symbols for easier reference, though they may seem abstract.
A Rise in Falls
November 2, 2014
A Workout for the Mind
October 30, 2014
Insomniac, but Not Sleep-Deprived
October 27, 2014
The Weekly Health Quiz
Podcast: Science Times
Nine women share their experiences with breast cancer.
Fighting Breast Cancer, and Winning Reactions
Loss of SpaceShipTwo, Withholding Judgment on Latrines, ‘Black Holes’ of Yore
Letters to the editor and online comments.
From the Magazine
Searching for the Fountain of Youth
By SAM ANDERSON
Down the back roads of strip-mall Florida, I hunted for the legendary reservoir that would keep me forever young.
Can Video Games Fend Off Mental Decline?
By CLIVE THOMPSON
“Brain training” games have become big business, but the research is still unclear about whether they improve your brain over all.
What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set?
By BRUCE GRIERSON
Ellen Langer’s experiments have shown that mental attitudes might reverse some ravages of old age. Now she wants to test that same radical principle on cancer.
AUDIO: Patient Voices
What is it like to live with a chronic disease, mental illness or confusing condition? In Patient Voices, we feature first person accounts of the challenges patients face as they cope with various health issues.
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