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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?
When you rush to tell your friends about your amazing experience, they will crowd around you, eager for every delicious detail, right? Wrong.
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.
Experts who have studied falls wish that people would take measures to protect themselves much as they do against heart disease or viral infections.
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.
Gyms showed high levels of airborne dust, formaldehyde and carbon dioxide, all of which can pose problems for energetic, heavy-breathing exercisers.
Low birth weight and preterm birth significantly increase the risk for hip replacement in adulthood, a new study has found.
Soaring diagnoses in South Korea and elsewhere could be attributable to increased screening and could lead to unnecessary treatment.
Food and biotech companies spent $60 million battling proposals dealing with what Americans can and cannot eat and drink.
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 death of Brittany Maynard may reinvigorate discussions over aid-in-dying policies.
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.
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.
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.
A White House official said most of the emergency funding would be for immediate response efforts.
Purple mashed potatoes add some color to the Thanksgiving table.
The New York Times is offering a free mobile app for the popular Scientific 7-Minute Workout and the new Advanced 7-minute Workout.
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.
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.
All human genes get three-to-five-letter symbols for easier reference, though they may seem abstract.
Letters to the editor and online comments.
Down the back roads of strip-mall Florida, I hunted for the legendary reservoir that would keep me forever young.
“Brain training” games have become big business, but the research is still unclear about whether they improve your brain over all.
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.
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