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One drizzly January morning in 2022, Mark Kariel took a few sips of coffee, pulled out his phone, opened his New York Times app and began to Wordle. He'd never [...]

Babies born with spinal muscular atrophy often live brief, heartbreaking lives. They miss key developmental milestones. They cry weakly. They can't roll over. They never sit up on their own [...]

She was already rodeo royalty--a former world champion and National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame inductee--and on this dry, pleasant March evening in 2004, she hoped to qualify for [...]

Dorothy O'Connell hoped a STEM CELL INJECTION Would cure her chronic pain. Instead, it nearly killed her. ELAINE DILLEY AND HER HUSBAND LIVE IN BRAZORIA COUNTY, SOUTH OF HOUSTON, ON [...]

Texas is at risk of a deadly measles outbreak, and yet few have been willing to cast blame on the state's burgeoning--and notoriously combative--anti-vaccine movement. Enter Peter Hotez, an affable, [...]

One was addressed to the risk-managementdepartment at Columbia,and the second was sent to Dr. Harold Fox,the acting head of the OB/GYN departmentat Columbia-Presbyterian. On any given day duringhis two decades of practice at Columbia,Hadden saw 25 to 40 patients. In2004 or 2005, Katia Herman, a 27-year-oldyoga instructor, received a referral tosee Hadden from her Columbia obstetrician,Dr. Katarina Eisinger. In agreeing to pay $236.5 million toresolve lawsuits brought by 226 of Hadden'svictims, Columbia admitted no fault,which is in keeping with public statementsover the years placing the blame for whathappened solely on Hadden. [Extracted from the article]

CADDO LAKE is being consumed by the world's most MONSTROUS WEED. Herbicides, kitchen strainers, and even BLOWTORCHES have failed to stop it. Now a local band of volunteers is making [...]

As many as 63 million Americans may be consuming dangerous [H.sub.2]O. WH reveals what could be lingering in your faucet, how it got there, and what to do about it.Water. [...]

Few people today could recite the scientific accomplishments of 19th century physician Julius Petri. But almost everybody has heard of his dish. For more than a century, microbiologists have studied [...]

The first time John Jones played football for Cedar Hill High School, he was a 240-pound freshman who knew so little about the game he trotted into Longhorn Stadium with [...]

Humans can't easily protect themselves from the most dangerous species on Earth. The predator slips invisibly into homes, quietly stalks its prey and bites before a victim knows what happened. [...]

For centuries, the mouth and the body have been disconnected--at least when it comes to health care. Through the Middle Ages and beyond, teeth fell under the care of barbers, [...]

In a pasture outside Edmonton, Canada, you'll find a few dozen cows doing what cows do: mostly eating. The average animal spends eight-plus hours a day filling its belly, or [...]

DOES YOUR PERIOD HAVE TO BE THIS BAD? TREATMENT FOR PERIOD PAIN HASN'T ADVANCED IN 30 YEARS. WHAT GIVES? the roses were a gift from a grateful patient to Dr. [...]

The average brain weighs about 1.3 kilograms and consumes 20 percent of the body's energy budget. Much of that energy powers the brain's 86 billion nerve cells, or neurons, which [...]

Blair River was described as 'a big guy with a big heart.' The 575-pound former high school wrestler from Mesa, Ariz., became such a fixture at the Heart Attack Grill [...]

In the fickle world of sports nutrition fads, few trends have shown the staying power of antioxidants. For more than three decades, athletes have remained devoted fans of supplements; the [...]

If there was a shot to ward off cancer and STIs, you'd get it, right? Well, there is one ... and hardly anybody seems to want it. Cosmo reports on [...]

Americans spend about $2 billion each year on weight-loss supplements, and at least 20 percent of women in this country have tried one. But there's very little anyone's doing to [...]

Christen Childs woke up on September 12, 2009, in the pitch dark of early morning with what she thought was a pulled muscle in her leg. She reached down to [...]

In the germ world, fungi usually lack the flair of viruses or bacteria. To people with normal, healthy immune systems, a fungus will rarely show itself--even though you carry around [...]

Considering that food is full of foreign proteins, it makes sense that the intestine is the immune system's version of Grand Central station. It's the largest organ to regularly sweep […]