After a long journey at sea on the Westerdam cruise ship, which was denied entry at ports across Asia over fears of the coronavirus, Holley Rauen finally returned home to Florida on Wednesday night. Moments later, she discovered that she had joined a cast of thousands who are being meticulously tracked by local health officials…
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Ryan Springer’s mystery illness began last summer with a dull ache in his chest. Over the next few days, the symptoms grew more alarming: sharp pain with every breath, a rapid heartbeat and a spiking fever. Emergency room doctors at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Ill., were stumped. They ordered up a lung biopsy and…
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I recently found myself trapped in the arms of a shaman. It was a hug — and a consensual hug, let me be clear — albeit an unexpected one. I had held out my hand to offer this person a shake, as we were meeting professionally for the first time. He rejected my hand and…
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Good morning. Tell me why, I don’t like Mondays, Bob Geldof wrote so many years ago, and the mournful sentiment echoes around the kombucha station at work to this day. People aren’t looking forward to cooking at the top of the week, to salmon in parchment or a layered vegetable torte. They want simplicity, ease,…
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HONG KONG — The Hong Kong government, which has faced growing demands to evacuate its residents from mainland China after one died of the coronavirus, said on Monday that it would begin bringing people back from Hubei Province, the center of the outbreak. Thousands of Hong Kong residents have been unable to return after much…
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There are procedures and products for home care useful to those who are always on the run. No injections or surgeries are needed. Face masks If your skin is dry, sensitive and dull, use alginate masks. These masks are suitable for enhancing concentrates and serums. If the skin is oily and prone to inflammatory rashes,…
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Babies are the most light of life. They can add a totally different form of energy in the daily life of a family. The crackles of a baby can turn the environment of the home to a great extent. A healthy baby is a gem to a home that can keep it filled with happiness.…
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Choosing a sofa can be a daunting proposition. From cocktail parties to catnaps, it has to meet a wide variety of demands. And it’s probably the largest thing in the room, so it’s not inconspicuous. A sofa is “among the biggest and most important pieces of furniture in the living room or family room,” said…
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We’ve long been schooled on the lifesaving value of early detection of a potentially deadly cancer. So when a simple blood test was introduced in 1994 that could detect the possible presence of prostate cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths among American men, it’s not hard to understand why it quickly became hugely…
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I’ve written recently about teenagers having too-heavy periods and too-painful periods, and now I want to talk about too-irregular periods. These issues can overlap, but let’s focus on what it can mean when an adolescent doesn’t menstruate regularly — and on the question of how irregular is too irregular. Dr. Andrea Bonny, an associate professor…
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