Compliments Have a Powerful Impact. Here’s How to Give Them.
Offering praise benefits everyone, experts say. Here’s how to do it like a pro.
Offering praise benefits everyone, experts say. Here’s how to do it like a pro.
Burned out from life in New York, a photographer traveled to northern Chile to study the ancient wisdom of the Lickanantay, the area’s Indigenous people. Here’s what she saw.
Doctors say the diabetes medication, and drugs like it, could counteract the weight patients gain on antipsychotics and antidepressants.
What’s Behind the Numbers: Flavor bans may have had an effect. One thing is clear about underage e-cigarette use: Adolescents like flavors. About 90 percent of the students who reported vaping said they used flavored products, citing favorites that tasted like fruit and candy. Teenagers identified Elf Bar and Esco Bar as their favorite brands,…
We’re often told to focus on the positive. But new research shows a healthy dose of anger can be motivating.
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The number of American babies who died before their first birthdays rose last year, significantly increasing the nation’s infant mortality rate for the first time in two decades, according to provisional figures released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics. The spike is a somber manifestation of the state of maternal and child health…
A 58-year-old man with heart failure who received a new heart from a genetically modified pig died on Monday, nearly six weeks after receiving the pig organ, University of Maryland Medical Center officials announced on Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, of Frederick, Md., was the second patient at the medical center to have had an ailing heart…
A panel of experts said on Tuesday that a groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease was safe enough for clinical use, setting the stage for likely federal approval by Dec. 8 of a powerful potential cure for an illness that afflicts more than 100,000 Americans. The Food and Drug Administration had previously found that the…
Mixing the medical and the personal, several memoirists find literary analogies the best way to capture unwelcome visits to “unimaginable lands.”