Meditation May Be Good for the Heart

Meditation may be linked to a lower risk for cardiovascular disease, a new study suggests. Researchers used data from a national survey conducted annually by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, identifying all patients with high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, stroke and coronary artery disease and any who reported that they meditated. Of 61,267 people…

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The U.S. Commits to Buying Millions of Vaccine Doses. Why That’s Unusual.

A Pfizer laboratory in Pearl River, N.Y. Pfizer, along with a smaller drugmaker, has entered into a contract with the U.S. government to provide millions of doses of a coronavirus vaccine still under development.Credit…Pfizer, via Reuters The Trump administration’s commitment on Wednesday to purchase 100 million doses of a not-yet-finished vaccine is unusual in two…

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Health Care Comes to Us

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. The pandemic, an unemployment surge and unrest over racial inequality have made more Americans feel isolated, anxious or depressed. Psychological distress could prove temporary, but the hurt and the ripple effects are serious nevertheless. Now here’s some…

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Know Your Food

Good morning. A few summers ago, long before the pandemic came to upend our lives and economy, my friend and colleague Tejal Rao wrote a beautiful column for The Times about how she met the man who would become her life partner. The story was about how he enjoyed oysters — “keenly and quietly, without…

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