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Phys Ed: Can Touching Your Toes Test Your Arteries?
Health & Wellness (tags: AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, diet, disease, drugs, environment, ethics, exercise, family, food, government, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, news, nutrition, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, s )

Cynthia
- 1 day ago - well.blogs.nytimes.com

For years, cardiologists were aware that heart attacks are more common during the winter months than in any other season. Most assumed that the cause was cold weather. But then researchers in California examined death certificates in Los Angeles County

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Coping With Depression During Pregnancy
Health & Wellness (tags: AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, children, diet, disease, drugs, environment, ethics, family, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, nutrition, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, society, study )

Cynthia
- 1 day ago - well.blogs.nytimes.com

About one in eight women take an antidepressant at some time during pregnancy, reports Roni Rabin in today's Science Times. But is it safe?

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The Value of Pet Therapy
Health & Wellness (tags: animals, environment, ethics, habitat, humans, investigation, pets, society, AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, environment, family, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, news, nutrition, prevention, protection, researc )

Cynthia
- 1 day ago - well.blogs.nytimes.com

In today's Science Times, reporter Carla Baranauckas writes about a major new effort to study the role that pets play in human health. Anecdotes abound on the benefits of companion animals -- whether service and therapy animals or family pets -- on

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My Life as a Dog
Health & Wellness (tags: AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, disease, drugs, environment, ethics, exercise, family, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, nutrition, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, society, treatment, st )

Cynthia
- 1 day ago - well.blogs.nytimes.com

Our creaky miniature poodle, Bijou, and I spend a lot of time together. We both like to curl up in the den at the end of the day, and we both have the uncanny ability to take a nap anytime and anywhere.

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When Pain Goes Beyond Words - Well Blog - NYTimes.Com
Health & Wellness (tags: AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, disease, drugs, environment, ethics, exercise, family, food, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, news, nutrition, prevention, protection, research, safety, risks, society, study, tre )

Cynthia
- 1 day ago - well.blogs.nytimes.com

Being a patient teaches you something about the nuances of pain, writes Dana Jennings, in today's Science Times.

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After Cancer, Ambushed By Depression - Well Blog - NYTimes.Com
Health & Wellness (tags: AlternativeMed, Body-Mind-Spirit, cancer, diet, disease, drugs, environment, ethics, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, nutrition, news, prevention, protection, research, safety, risks, society, study, science, trea )

Cynthia
- 1 day ago - well.blogs.nytimes.com

I'm depressed.<br /> <br /> I'm recovering well from an aggressive case of prostate cancer, I haven't had any treatment in months, and all of my physical signposts of health are pointing in the right direction.

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Spotting Depression in Adolescents - Well Blog - NYTimes.Com
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Cynthia
- 1 day ago - well.blogs.nytimes.com

In the latest "18 and Under" column, the pediatrician Dr. Perri Klass writes about the challenges of diagnosing depression in young people. Some time ago I got an e-mail message from one of my students: She couldn't come to class. She was having

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Not All Drugs Are the Same After All
Health & Wellness (tags: drugs, generics, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, investigation, protection, medicine )

Nancy
- 1 day ago - nytimes.com

LET me start by saying I'm a fan of generic drugs...But there is a gnawing concern among some doctors and researchers that certain prescription generic drugs may not work as well as their brand-name counterparts.

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Tool in Cystic Fibrosis Fight: A Registry
Health & Wellness (tags: cystic fibrosischildren, disease, health, medicine, National Registry, genetic diseases )

Nancy
- 1 day ago - nytimes.com

In the 1950s, children with cystic fibrosis usually died before they reached kindergarten age, their airways choked with mucus by a genetic disorder that disrupts their ability to clear infections from their lungs.

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1. Jan Gone Away G. 7 notes,
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3. Daphna Yanez 21 notes,
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5. Cal Mendelsohn 12 notes,
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6. Tracy B. 6 notes,
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7. Alisa Roberts 21 notes,
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8. Nyack Clancy 14 notes,
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9. Annie Cowling 20 notes,
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10. Just Carole 34 notes,
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