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How to Plan a Trip Around a Running Race
When should you arrive? How do you choose an event? Here are some tips on how best to center a vacation around a race.
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The Good List: 6 Things to Add Delight to Your Day
Make your life bigger, color stories and back-seat rock.
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RFK Jr. to Allow Broad Use of Unapproved Peptide Injections
In a unilateral declaration by the health secretary, several injections promoted by online influencers will become widely available. The F.D.A. had advised…
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What to Know About the 6 Peptides RFK Jr. Has Cleared for Use
Patients will now have widespread access to the peptides, despite experts’ safety concerns.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Turn Off That Dirge!’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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The Local: Inside look at shuttered opera
Plus, Anthony Edwards’s knee surgery and what it could mean for the Timberwolves.
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How to Get a Mental Health Checkup
Here are a few questions to ask yourself — and your primary care doctor — to keep your psychological well-being on track.
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ChatGPT’s Advice to Cut Her Seizure Drug Led to Devastating Consequences
The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors.
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Want to Get Stronger Without the Male Gaze? There’s a Gym for That.
As more women lift, some are seeking out weight rooms of their own.
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Is There a Healthier Way to Eat Halloween Candy?
We asked experts whether it’s better to devour your treats in a day or savor them for weeks.
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How to Embrace a Fitness Mind-Set
To build an effective workout habit, you have to start by changing how you see yourself.
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How to Write a Great Letter
An expert in correspondence shares how to craft letters with impact for both the sender and the recipient.
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Melanoma Vaccine Ushers in New Hope for Cancer Patients
Beyond melanoma, scientists are studying cancer vaccines for glioblastoma, pancreatic cancer and more.
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Sleep Habits May Indicate a Type of Depression, Researchers Say
Researchers say people with ‘circadian depression’ might benefit from therapies that help adjust the body’s clock.
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Cancer Vaccine Cuts the Risk of Melanoma Recurrence, Merck and Moderna Report
Merck and Moderna released detailed results on an experimental vaccine to treat the skin cancer.
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Help! Why Won’t Travel Insurance Pay for My $17,500 Broken Leg?
An American tourist had emergency surgery in Thailand after tripping and falling at an ice cream counter. Good thing he bought insurance — or so it seemed.
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My Brother Won’t Leave His Awful Wife. Do I Have to Be Around Her?
Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who knows too much about a sibling’s troubled marriage.
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C.D.C. Ignored Request From States to Validate a New Measles Test
The agency replied two months later, saying it had “competing priorities,” officials from a coalition of Western states said.
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5 Common Medications That Can Mess With Your Sleep
Certain prescription and over-the-counter drugs are known to keep people awake. We asked experts for some of the biggest offenders.
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Is It Safe to Use Eye Drops Every Day?
It depends on the formulation, experts say. Here’s what is (and isn’t) recommended for the long term.
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Melania Trump Announces White House Women’s Health Initiative
The effort comes as Republicans are struggling to win over female voters two weeks before the midterm elections.
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Kennedy’s Vaccine Plan Could Cause Surge in Hepatitis B, Study Finds
Ending routine vaccination for hepatitis B at birth, as the health secretary has recommended, would increase the number of chronic infections by as much as 83…
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Death Penalty Sought for Andrea Shaw, Who Blamed Toddlers’ Deaths on Vaccines
As Andrea Shaw, 23, awaits trial for the murder of her twins, a leading lawyer in the anti-vaccine movement has joined her defense team.
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How Bad Is Another Case of Covid?
Repeated infections are “a fact of life” at this point, experts say. But they warn there is no such thing as a risk-free case.
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The Internet Loves This Ancient Seed Oil. Is It Worth the Hype?
Wellness influencers claim it can help regrow hair and lower blood pressure. Here’s what the science says.
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At a Last-Hope Health Clinic, Desperation, Kindness and Fear for What’s Next
These doctors and community health workers are a safety net for patients losing coverage as premiums soar and Medicaid cuts mount, even as their clinic…
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When a Gun Owner Shows Early Signs of Dementia
Public health experts are finding ways to encourage firearm safety practices for older adults who own guns, especially when there are indications of cognitive…
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The Difficulty of Diagnosing Anorexia in the GLP-1 Era
Doctors worry that the effects of weight-loss drugs may be masking serious eating disorders.
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Is Retirement Unhealthy? It Depends on How it’s Defined.
As more Americans live longer and as the population ages, measuring the effect of retirement on physical, cognitive and mental abilities is a complex…
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Do You Have ‘Purpose Anxiety’?
This is for everyone who has ever lain awake at night wondering what it’s all for.
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New Guidelines Strongly Support Hormone Therapy for Common Menopause Symptoms
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said the benefits of the treatment outweigh the harms for many women.
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3 Tools to Help Keep Your Anger in Check
It may feel justified in the moment, but yelling at your loved ones rarely gets you what you want.
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These Older Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Students Are Fighting the Clock
While some people slow down as they get older, or just try to maintain, these athletes went looking for a challenge in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
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Trump Hasn’t Lowered Drug Prices for These Voters
President Trump has been promoting his efforts to reduce drug prices, but many Americans have not seen relief from rising costs for prescriptions and insurance…
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Is Longevity Medicine Going Mainstream?
As major health systems open their own programs, longevity medicine is gaining credibility and becoming more accessible.
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Lessons From a New Widow on the Life After
As people think about living longer, a New York Times writer reflects on the recent death of her husband and what helps life go on.
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Exhausted Parents Are Turning to A.I. Apps Despite the Risks
Even as alarm grows over the risks, families are embracing bots and agents to tackle the spiraling administrative tasks of modern child rearing.
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Readers Offer Lessons on the Way to 100
We asked people who aspire to live long lives about how they hoped to do it and who might have inspired them along the way.
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What Can a Biological Age Test Actually Tell You?
Experts weigh in on the tests’ current accuracy and usefulness.
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Why So Many People Still Are Not Screened for Lung Cancer
Regular scans could catch lung cancers like Pope Leo XIV’s sooner, but many people at risk don’t qualify for screening. Doctors want to change that.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Who Would Believe That Nonsense?’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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The Good List: 6 Things to Add Delight to Your Day
Dance soundtrack, feather atlas and the sound of a sunny day.
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Will Anyone Actually Ever Live to 200?
Some experts are optimistic that science will eventually find ways to extend life, but many longevity claims are unrealistic.
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Coming Out at 50 Can Be Hard. Shelly Found a Coach.
She spent decades building an identity as a wife and mother. Could she disrupt “a perfectly good family dynamic” to live her own truth?
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6 Things Longevity Experts Wish People Would Stop Saying
Living longer and healthier is important. But don’t believe everything you hear.
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The Surfer’s Guide to Living a Longer, More Active Life
Some of the best lessons for remaining active in later years can be found on a surfboard.
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Pope Leo XIV Has Lung Adenocarcinoma. What Is It?
The cancer has a high survival rate if caught in the early stages.