How To Avoid Hunching At Your Desk
It’s time to get up (and fidget).
Aspartame and Cancer: What to Know About the WHO’s Advice
Experts say there’s no need to panic about your diet soda habit.
988 Suicide Hotline: What to Know One Year After Launch
The contestants on “Celebrity Jeopardy!” were stumped in the fall when asked about the new “3-digit national hotline phone number for suicide prevention” in the United States, which debuted last July. “What is 311?” the comedian Iliza Shlesinger guessed, wrongly. As it turns out, she was not alone. It has been one year since the…
E.R. Visits for Teenage Girls Surged During the Pandemic
As the coronavirus pandemic dragged through its second year, an increasing number of American families were so desperate to get help for depressed or suicidal children that they brought them to emergency rooms. A large-scale analysis of private insurance claims shows that this surge in acute mental health crises was driven largely by a single…
Racism and Sexism Underlie Higher Maternal Death Rates for Black Women, U.N. Says
Medical school curriculums, for example, include erroneous claims that Black women’s nerve endings are “less sensitive” and require less anesthesia, and that Black women’s blood coagulates faster than that of white women, leading to delayed treatment for dangerous hemorrhages, according to the report. It also found that textbook illustrations of childbirth were depicted on European…
Logan Paul’s Energy Drink Under Scrutiny Over High Caffeine Content
Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, has asked the F.D.A. to investigate a popular beverage created by the YouTube influencers Logan Paul and KSI over its high caffeine content.
Coronavirus Spread Widely in Deer, and Perhaps Back to People, U.S.D.A. Says
Why It Matters: Deer could be a source of new variants. There is no evidence that deer play a major role in spreading the virus to humans, but the transmission of the virus from people to animals raises several public health concerns. First, animal reservoir could allow viral variants that have disappeared from human populations…
Is Raw Milk Safe to Drink? What Experts Say
Health experts warn that drinking it could come with risks.
Tracing Mining’s Threat to U.S. Waters
PABLO, Mont. — In the mountain streams of southern British Columbia and northern Montana, a rugged part of the world, fish with misshapen skulls and twisted spines have been caught over the years. Many scientists attribute the malformed creatures and declines in certain fish populations to five enormous open-pit coal mines that interrupt this wild…
Can Stress Cause Hair Loss?
If your hair is thinning during particularly tense times, experts have thoughts on what might be going on.