Social Media Literacy Is the Key to Adolescent Online Safety, Not Bans
One expert says parents should emphasize the importance of digital literacy and privacy, but bans and heavy surveillance don’t work.
One expert says parents should emphasize the importance of digital literacy and privacy, but bans and heavy surveillance don’t work.
Americans with H.I.V. are achieving the once unthinkable: a steady march into older age. But beginning around age 50, many people living with the virus face a host of health problems, from heart disease and diabetes to social isolation and cognitive decline. And so the medical research community, which some three decades ago developed lifesaving…
Max Gomez, an award-winning medical and science journalist who delivered informed reports for more than 40 years on TV stations in New York and Philadelphia, most recently during the Covid-19 pandemic, died on Sept. 2 at his home in Manhattan. He was 72. His partner, Amy Levin, said the cause was head and neck cancer,…
Medicare may just be the budget buster that wasn’t. Somehow, after decades of nonstop growth, its spending per person has flattened over the past dozen years, saving taxpayers roughly $3.9 trillion since 2011, according to an Upshot analysis. But the reasons for the slowdown — and its duration — are not well understood. Our article…
Some memory lapses are a normal part of brain function, experts say.
En esta entrevista, la psicóloga Lisa Damour ofrece consejos a los padres para enfrentar la ansiedad académica, resolver una pelea entre amigos y manejar los deseos de independencia.
Bruce Springsteen postponed shows to get treatment for symptoms of the disease.
At the age of 58, stuck in her house through the long nights of the coronavirus pandemic, Michelle Brennen started to spend more and more of her time thinking about the worst thing that had ever happened to her. She was 10, on summer vacation. She had been playing in the yard in Essex, Vt.,…
Philips Respironics has agreed to a $479 million partial settlement on claims over flaws in the company’s breathing machines that spewed gases and flecks of foam into the airways of consumers and that spawned recalls involving millions of the devices, lawyers for plaintiffs in the lawsuit announced on Thursday. As one segment of continuing class-action…
La noticia Según un estudio publicado el mes pasado en The Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, los niños de 1 año expuestos a más de cuatro horas diarias frente a una pantalla experimentaron retrasos en el desarrollo de las capacidades de comunicación y resolución de problemas a los 2 y 4 años. La…