Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: William Petri
As the nation adjusts to the threat of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, it’s only natural to worry whether a cough or aches and pains could be signs you have become infected by the virus.
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- Written by: Jeffrey Gardner
As concern about coronavirus grows, hand sanitizer is in high demand. Biologist Jeffrey Gardner explains why alcohol is a key ingredient in hand sanitizer, and why he doesn’t recommend making your own supply at home.
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- Written by: Brian Labus
When people are sick with a respiratory disease like COVID-19, they cough or sneeze particles into the air.
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- Written by: Jenny Gold
Public health officials in California’s state capital region announced this week they have stopped tracing the contacts of patients diagnosed with the novel
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- Written by: Maureen Ferran
The U.S. government is fighting to contain and slow down the spread of the coronavirus. Testing is central to these efforts.
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- Written by: Anna Nagurney
The coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, has created enormous anxiety, uncertainty, and disruption to our lives.
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- Written by: Joseph Eisenberg
If you saw the 2011 movie “Contagion,” about a worldwide pandemic of a new virus, then you’ve heard the term “R0.”
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- Written by: Alex Horenstein and Konrad Grabiszewski
Safety measures make risky activities less risky: seat belts for car occupants, bailouts for financial institutions. Masks and disinfectants might feel like they do the same for anyone afraid of coronavirus.
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- Written by: Meranda Nakhla and Marie-Eve Robinson
The risks of psychiatric disorders and suicide attempts are substantially higher for young people from 15 to 25 years old with type 1 diabetes, a new study shows.
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- Written by: Alisson Clark
When certain patients “teach back” a doctor’s instructions, they’re more likely to stay out of the hospital, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Sarah Avery
Variable blood pressure readings could be an overlooked early warning sign of heart disease, researchers report.
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- Written by: Mira Rakicevic
Sleep paralysis is a type of REM parasomnia or abnormal behavior that takes place during the REM sleep cycle.
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- Written by: David King
We tend to notice mucus only when it’s abnormal and the sticky fluid is expelled from orifices.
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- Written by: Neel Shah
Americans still choose to give birth bed-bound, on their backs, with their knees up, legs spread, feet in the air.
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- Written by: Shomik Sengupta, Monash University
A recent UK study showed no significant difference in survival between men who had a single prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test
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- Written by: Kent Willis
Born after just 23 of the normal 40 weeks of pregnancy, the extremely preterm baby is small enough to fit in the palm of my hand and weighs just one and a quarter pounds.
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- Written by: Joshua Schrock
The emotion of lassitude might help your body fight off infection by making certain adjustments.
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- Written by: Tony Wyss-Coray
A sort of physiological clock—levels of 373 proteins in your blood—can predict your age, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Alan Barreca
About a quarter of children in the United States are born two to three weeks before their due date, which qualifies them as “early term.”
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- Written by: Nicholas Conn
America is aging rapidly. In the next 40 years, the number of people age 65 and older is expected to nearly double.
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- Written by: Rebecca Renkas
Hot flashes or night sweats — called vasomotor symptoms or VMS — might be more than just a nuisance for menopausal women.
