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For all, the return to activity should be personalized, and family and school and coaches should understand the expectations and the plan. The final recommendation, “counsel patients to return gradually to nonsports activities after no more than two to three days of rest,” Dr. Giza said, should help avoid prolonged rest and isolation, which is…
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Advertisement Skull fractures, often from falling down stairs, are among the injuries that can occur with child walkers. Sept. 17, 2018 Image Credit More than 230,000 children younger than 15 months were treated in emergency rooms for injuries incurred while using infant walkers from 1990 to 2014. An analysis published in Pediatrics has found that…
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Cindy Su Pan and Colin Alexander Sullivan were married Sept. 15 at Academy Mansion, an events space in New York. Kevin T. Sullivan, a brother of the groom who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. The couple met at Columbia, from which they graduated, the groom cum laude. The bride, who is…
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Getty ImagesJames Devaney Possible newlyweds Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin stepped out for some Starbucks last night in New York, and well, you couldn’t miss them. Justin, whose fashion choices have become a spectacle this year, dared to wear his most colorful outfit yet: a technicolor tracksuit. Getty ImagesJames Devaney Advertisement — Continue Reading Below…
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Should older people in good health start taking aspirin to prevent heart attacks, strokes, dementia and cancer? No, according to a study of more than 19,000 people, including whites 70 and older, and blacks and Hispanics 65 and older. They took low-dose aspirin — 100 milligrams — or a placebo every day for a median…
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Advertisement The former Spice Girl, showing her clothing in London for the first time in 10 years of collections, ran her own cash register for the afternoon. Sept. 16, 2018 Image Victoria Beckham, spring 2019.CreditTom Jamieson for The New York Times LONDON — Victoria Beckham did not want her runway show on the Sunday of…
DetailsA new study has asked whether certain people with chronic pain should be given sugar pills to manage their symptoms. Scientists tap into the individual differences that make some people more susceptible to a placebo. Brain anatomy and personality type may influence susceptibility to the placebo effect. A placebo is a medical intervention — be…
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They shared Charlotte’s home — one room, eight feet by eight feet, with rough concrete walls, a tin roof and a dirt floor. It was crammed into a warren of dwellings on the side of a hill, down a steep flight of uneven stone steps from the road. The sisters slept together in a bed…
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