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• 8/8 -- Self-Employed Women Are Often Healthier: Study

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• 9/11 First Responders Face Higher Cancer Risk 20 Years Later

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• 9/11 First Responders Have Higher Odds for Alzheimer's: Study

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• 99% of Planet's Population Breathes Dirty Air: WHO

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• A Good Workout Could Boost Your Thinking for Up to 2 Hours

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• A Healthier Heart Might Make You Smarter

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• A High-Tech Pointer to Pollutants That Trigger Asthma in Kids

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• Across the U.S., Black Americans Breathe in Dirtier Air

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• Aduhelm: Will Medicare Cover the Controversial Alzheimer's Drug?

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• 'Aerosol Boxes' Meant to Protect COVID Health Teams Might Harm Them: Study

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• Air and Noise Pollution May Make You Vulnerable to Heart Failure

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• Air Pollutants, Metals Are Reaching The Placenta, Study Finds

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• Air Pollution Can Harm Kids' Hearts for a Lifetime

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• Air Pollution Linked to 6 Million Premature Births in 1 Year

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• Air Pollution May Harm Older Women's Brains

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• Air Pollution Takes a Toll on Your Kidneys

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• Air Pollution Tied to Asthma in Young Kids

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• All Health Care, Long-Term Care Workers in California Must Get COVID Shots

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• Another Study Finds COVID Doesn't Spread in Schools With Proper Safeguards

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• Anxiety Might Speed Alzheimer's: Study

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• Aphasia Affects Brain Similar to Alzheimer's, But Without Memory Loss

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• Are Workplace Robots Bringing Mental Harm to U.S. Workers?

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• As Americans Return to Work, How Will COVID Change the Workplace?

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• As Pandemic Cut Air Pollution, Heart Attacks Declined

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• As Pandemic Leads to Clearer Skies, Solar Energy Output Rises

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• As People Age, They Share Fewer Memories With Others: Study

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• Asthma Sufferers Win When Coal Plants Shut Down

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• Autopsies Show Microplastics in All Major Human Organs

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• Autopsy Study May Explain Why Some COVID Survivors Have 'Brain Fog'

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• Bedroom Air Filters May Help Kids With Asthma Breathe Easier

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• Being a Jerk Not a Recipe for Getting Ahead at Work

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• Being Chained to Your Desk Might Harm Your Thyroid

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• Better Work Conditions Bringing Better Mental Health to Resident Doctors: Study

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• Biden Administration Moves to Cut Methane Emissions That Threaten Climate, Health

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• Biden Administration Says California Can Set Tough Auto Emission Standards Again

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• Biden Announces New Lung Health Program for U.S. Veterans

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• Blood Pressure Spikes at Night May Spell Trouble for Brain

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• Bosses Need Love, Too

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• Brain May Age Faster After Spinal Cord Injury

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• Brain Plaques Signal Alzheimer's Even Before Other Symptoms Emerge: Study

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• Brazil Study Shows Climate Change's Deadly Impact on Kidneys

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• Breathing Dirty Air Could Raise a Child's Risk for Adult Mental Illness

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• Breathing Dirty Air Could Raise Your Odds for Rheumatoid Arthritis

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• Bruce Willis Stepping Down From Acting After Brain Disorder Diagnosis

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• Can Talk Therapy Heal the Body, Too?

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• Can Your Blood Pressure Medicine Protect Your Memory?

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• Childhood Lead Exposure Tied to Brain Changes in Middle Age

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• Cleaner Air Could Mean Healthier Brains for Older Women

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• Cleaning Up the Air Could Help Prevent Alzheimer's

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• Climate Change, Smog Could Mean More Preemie Babies: Study

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• Clocks 'Spring Forward' on Sunday: Be Prepared

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• Coming This Way: Huge Saharan Dust Plume Will Affect Americans' Health

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• Could a Type of Statin Raise Dementia Risks?

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• Could Air Pollution Help Trigger Depression in Teens?

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• Could Coffee Help Lower Your Odds for Alzheimer's?

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• Could Dirty Air Help Speed Alzheimer's?

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• Could Night Shifts Raise Asthma Risk?

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• Could Pollution Help Decide Your Baby's Sex?

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• COVID and Hypochondria: Online Therapy May Help Ease Fears

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• COVID Threatens the 3 out of 4 Americans Who Can't Work From Home

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• COVID-19 Survival Declines When Brain Affected: Study

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• Cutting Pollution From Power Plants, Transport Could Save 50,000 U.S. Lives Each Year

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• Delirium May Be Only Sign of Severe COVID in Elderly: Study

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• Depression Plagues Many Coal Miners With Black Lung Disease

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• Diminished Hearing, Vision Together Could Be Risk Factor for Dementia

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• Dirtier Air May Bring More COVID-19 Deaths

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• Dirty Air Can Worsen COVID Outcomes

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• Dirty Air Could Raise COVID Risks for People With Asthma, COPD

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• Dirty Air Endangers Homeless People: Study

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• Dirty Air in Pregnancy Might Raise Baby's Obesity Risk

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• Dirty Air Might Raise Your Odds for Dementia

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• Dirty Air, Higher Dementia Risk?

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• Dirty City Air Killed More Than 1.8 Million People Globally in 2019

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• Dirty City Air Might Raise MS Risk

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• Do Touchscreens Make Your Toddler More Distractible?

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• Do Women or Men Make the Best Doctors?

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• Do You Live in One of America's Unhealthiest Cities for Polluted Air?

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• Do Zoom Meetings Kill Creativity?

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• Doctors' Choice of Anesthesia Could Help Curb Climate Change

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• Don't Be a 'Hot-Head': Study Suggests Head Overheating Impairs Thinking

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• Doorway Study Reveals How Anorexia Changes 'Body Awareness'

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• Double Trouble: Wildfire Smoke Could Boost Odds for COVID's Spread

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• Double Trouble: Wildfires Can Raise COVID Risks

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• Drivers May Be Inhaling Dangerous Carcinogens Inside Their Cars

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• EPA to Sharply Limit Refrigerant Production in New Climate Rule

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• ER Workers' Stress May Affect Patient Care: Study

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• Even a Drink a Day Might Raise Brain Risks

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• Even for Preschoolers, Healthier Hearts May Mean Healthier Brains

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• Even in Dirty Air, Working Out Can Help Cut Risk of High Blood Pressure

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• Even Low Levels of Air Pollution Harm Heart, Lungs

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• Even Small Reductions in Air Pollution Help The Heart

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• Even With PPE, Risk of COVID-19 Still High for Frontline Workers

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• Exercise Could Help Fight 'Chemo Brain' in Breast Cancer Patients

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• Exercise, Puzzles, Games: They Help Men's, Women's Brains Differently

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• Experiences of Racism Tied to Worsening Memory, Thinking in Older Black Americans

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• FDA OKs Virtual Reality System to Ease Back Pain

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• Fetal Exposure to Ultra-Fine Air Pollution Could Raise Asthma Risks

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• Few U.S. Workers Know About COVID Sick Leave Protections

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• Firefighters' Blood Pressure Can Rise When Duty Calls

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• Firefighters Face Higher Odds for Heart Trouble

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• Fireworks Are Bad News for Your Lungs

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• First Good Evidence That Brain Hits 'Replay' While You Sleep

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• Fish on Your Plate May Keep Your Brain Sharp

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• Fooled by Fake News: Does Age Matter?

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• Formaldehyde in the Workplace Tied to Later Brain Issues

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• Get Fit in Middle Age to Boost Your Aging Brain

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• Grandmother's Brain In Sync With Her Grandkids': Study

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• Greenhouse Gases Bad for Your Brain

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• Grumpy? Depressed? Try a More Regular Sleep Schedule

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• Harmful Flame Retardants Detected in College-Classroom Dust

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• Having Someone Who'll Listen May Be Good for Your Aging Brain

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• Head Injury, Alzheimer's Appear to Affect Brain in Similar Ways

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• Heading Back to the Workplace? Here's Some Tips to Help Re-Adjust

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• Health Care Workers More Likely to Catch COVID at Home, Not Workplace

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• Health Care Workers Were At Highest COVID Risk in Workplace

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• Healthy Living Can Lower Your Odds for Alzheimer's

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• High Blood Pressure in Middle Age Can Harm Your Brain

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• High Blood Pressure While Pregnant Linked to Poorer Memory Years Later

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• High Curiosity in Infancy Carries Through to Toddler Years

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• High Heat, Heavy Smog a Deadly Combo: Study

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• Higher Education Won't Help Preserve the Aging Brain: Study

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• Hot Asphalt Releases a Lot of Pollution Into the Air

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• How Are 'Super Agers' Protected From Alzheimer's and Mental Decline?

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• How to Get Better Sleep While Working at Home

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• How Your Neighborhood Can Hamper Your Teen's Sleep

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• If Mom-to-Be Lives Near Airport, Odds for Preemie Birth Rise

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• In Florida County Where 3 Teachers Died, School Board Member Pleads for Safeguards

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• Inhaled Pollutants Go Directly From Lungs to Brain: Study

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• Injuries a Drain on Employee Productivity

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• Is It 'Pre-Alzheimer's' or Normal Aging? Poll Finds Many Americans Unclear

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• Is Your Home Workstation Hurting You?

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• Ketamine Appears Safe as Therapy for Tough-to-Treat Depression

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• Kidneys Might Affect Mental Status As You Age

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• L.A.'s Oil Wells Could Be Harming Citizens' Health

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• Leaded Gas, Banned Decades Ago, Might Still Harm People Today

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• Lifetime Spent With Epilepsy Ages the Brain, Study Finds

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• Little Progress in Boosting Numbers of Black American Doctors

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• Live Near a 'Superfund' Site? Your Life Span Might Be Shorter

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• Lockdowns' Benefits for Air Quality Weren't as Big as Thought: Study

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• Lockdowns Cut Air Pollution, But Poorer Neighborhoods Benefited Less

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• Long Bouts of Space Travel May Harm Astronauts' Brains

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• Long COVID Can Last a Year; Many Sufferers Quit Jobs

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• Low-Dose Aspirin Won't Affect Dementia Risk in People With Diabetes

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• Lullaby Effect: Music Can Speed Your Way to Sleep, Study Finds

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• Many Americans May Quit, Change Jobs Due to Pandemic Stress: Survey

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• Many Employees Have Mixed Feelings as Offices Reopen

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• Many Health Care Workers Who Have Coronavirus Don't Have Symptoms: Study

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• Many People May Be Eating Their Way to Dementia

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• Many People With Asthma Have Mixed Feelings About Masks: Poll

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• Mastering the Violin Won't Help Your Child Master Math: Study

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• Me, Me, Me: Narcissists Drawn to Politics, Study Shows

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• Meat Production Is Dirtying the Air You Breathe

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• Mediterranean Diet Could Keep Aging Brains Sharp

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• Memory Issues Plague Long COVID Patients

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• Menopause Can Make Workplace Tougher for Women: Study

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• Mental Confusion an Early Warning Sign of Severe COVID-19

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• Mindfulness May Ease the Emotional Burden of MS

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• Missing Teeth, Higher Odds for Dementia?

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• More U.S. Seniors, Especially Women, Are Retaining Healthy Brains: Study

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• Most Cases of Dementia in U.S. Seniors Go Undiagnosed: Study

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• Most Injured Workers Resume Jobs After Recovery, But Finances Suffer

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• Most of Restaurant Menu Must Be Vegetarian Before Meat Eaters Make the Switch

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• Most Older Americans Believe Health Care Workers Should Be Vaccinated: Poll

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• Most Vaccinated Adults Plan to Get Boosters: Poll

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• Music Classes Strike a Chord in Kids' Brain Development: Study

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• Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. Hospital Personnel Still Unvaccinated

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• Nearly 59,000 Meatpacking Workers Caught COVID, While 269 Died: Report

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• Nervous About Returning to Work? Take Precautions Against Coronavirus

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• Neuro Surprise: Some Brain Skills Might Improve With Age

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• New Clues to Why Some Develop 'Brain Fog' After COVID

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• Nitrogen Dioxide, a Car Exhaust Pollutant, Is Raising Death Rates: Study

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• 'No Recollection:' Woman Has Sudden, Unexplained Episodes of Memory Loss

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• Not Just Keyboards: Many Types of Workers Can Develop Carpal Tunnel

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• Nurses Are Dying From Suicide at Higher Rates

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• NYC's Ban on Heating Oil Helped Clean the Air

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• Online Therapy Works for Kids Battling Social Anxiety

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• Online Therapy, Coaches Help Ease Eating Disorders

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• Overworked Anesthesiologists Can Put Surgical Patients at Risk

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• Pain Is a Growing Threat to the Nation's Surgeons, New Research Reveals

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• Pandemic Day Care Closures Forced 600,000 U.S. Working Moms to Leave Jobs

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• Pandemic Has Cut Global Carbon Emissions by 17%

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• Pandemic Has Stressed Out Doctors

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• Pandemic Is Adding to Teachers' Stress, and Quit Rates

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• Pandemic Is Leaving U.S. With Shortage of Long-Term Health Care Workers

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• Pandemic Stress, Exhaustion Weigh on Health Care Workers

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• Pandemic Unemployment Has Taken Its Own Deadly Toll

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• Pandemic's Early Days Hit Nurses Hard: Report

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• Pentagon Says Troops Must Start Lining Up Now for COVID Shots

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• Physical Jobs Tied to More Sick Leave, Earlier Retirement

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• Physically Active at Work? It's Not as Healthy as Leisure Exercise

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• Polluted Air Keeps Butterflies, Bees From Pollinating: Study

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• Pollution Killed 9 Million People Worldwide in 2019

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• Pot Use May Change the Teenage Brain, MRIs Show

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• 'Prediabetes' May Be Harming Your Brain, Study Finds

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• PTSD Therapy Doesn't Trigger Drug Relapse in Addiction Patients: Study

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• Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Preventing Memory Loss?

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• Reading, Puzzles May Delay Alzheimer's by 5 Years: Study

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• Recovering COVID Patients Often Face Long-Term 'Brain Fog'

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• Reminder Apps on Smartphones May Help in Early Dementia

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• Replace That Old Carpet to Shield Your Kids From Toxins

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• Researchers Spot Sign of Alzheimer's Risk That Scammers Love

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• Researchers Zero in on Alzheimer's Disease Risk Factors

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• Retired and Want to Stay Sharp? Hop on the Internet More Often

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• Right Amount of Sleep May Be Important in Early Alzheimer's

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• Rising Number of Americans Think It's OK to Harass Public Health Officials

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• Road to Healthy Middle-Aged Brain May Begin in Childhood

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• School COVID Outbreaks Drop When Adults Wear Masks, Study Finds

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• Scientists Calculate Perfect Amount of Sleep for Folks Over 40

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• Severe COVID May Age Survivors' Brains 20 Years: Study

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• Sexism May Play Role in Who Performs Your Surgery

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• Sharp Spike Seen in Air Pollution Levels in Recent Years

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• Shift Work Might Delay Menopause, With Potential Harms to Health

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• Short Course of Psychotherapy Can Help Ease Panic Disorder

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• Signs of Early Alzheimer's May Be Spotted in Brain Stem

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• Sit All Day for Work? Simple Step Can Cut Your Health Risk

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• Sluggish Coworker? Maybe They 'Pigged Out' Last Night

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• Smog Could Reduce Exercise's Benefit to Your Brain

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• Smog Harms Women's Brains, But One Food May Help Buffer the Damage

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• Smog Might Damage Your Sense of Smell

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• Smoggy Air Might Help Spur Sinusitis

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• Smoggy Air Might Raise Black Women's Odds for Fibroids

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• Smoggy Day? Exercise Still the Healthy Choice, Study Finds

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• Social Media Messages Can Lower People's Meat Intake

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• Some Folks Do Age Slower Than Others

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• Some NFL Players May Be Misdiagnosed With Brain Disease: Study

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• Some Types of Air Pollution Are Even Worse for Your Health

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• Special Therapy Brings Relief to Patients With Chronic Back Pain

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• Strain of COVID Care Has Many Health Professionals Looking for an Exit

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• Stress Has Many U.S. Teachers Leaving Profession: Survey

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• Stressed and Distracted, Kids and Their Teachers Say Virtual Learning Isn't Working

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• Stressed, Burned-Out Nurses Make More Medical Errors: Study

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• Stressed, Exhausted: Frontline Workers Faced Big Mental Strain in Pandemic

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• Supreme Court Curbs EPA's Authority Over Power Plant Emissions

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• Survived a Heart Attack? Long Work Hours Raise Your Odds for Another

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• Survivors of Severe COVID Face Higher Odds for Another Hospitalization Soon After

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• Teachers' Unions, Doctors Agree: Vaccines, Masks Crucial for Return-to-School

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• Therapy by Phone Helps Parkinson's Patients Manage Depression

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• There May Be a 'Best Bedtime' for Your Heart

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• There's No Magic Formula to Slow Your Dog's Aging

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• There's Stress, and Then There's 'Good Stress'

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• Too Much or Too Little Sleep Bad for Your Brain

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• Toxic Lead Fallout From Notre Dame Fire May Be Worse Than Thought

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• Toxins in Wildfire Smoke May Make Their Way Into Brain

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• Tracking Key Protein Helps Predict Outcomes in TBI Patients

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• Tree Rings Show Hurricanes Becoming Wetter, Longer, More Dangerous

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• Trouble Concentrating at Work? Your Office Air May Be to Blame

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• Try 'Microbreaks' for a Real Workday Boost

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• Type 2 Diabetes Linked to Worse Mental Outcomes After Stroke

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• U.S. Air Quality Got Better During Pandemic: Study

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• U.S. Appeals Panel Backs New York City's Vaccine Mandate for School Staff

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• Unseen Factors Help Us Find Lost Objects Faster: Study

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• Urban Air Pollution Drives Millions of Cases of Asthma in Kids

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• Vaping May Addle the Adolescent Brain

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• Very Smart Dogs Learn Words Quickly, Study Shows

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• Veterans at Higher Risk of Deadly Skin Cancers

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• Vibration Therapy May Help Body, Mind in People With MS

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• Volunteer Firefighters Have High Levels of Potentially Toxic Chemicals

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• Want to Avoid Dementia? Add Some Color to Your Plate

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• Weight Loss Can Help Cut Lung Risks in 9/11 First Responders

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• West Coast Wildfires, COVID a Double Whammy to Lung Health

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• Western Wildfires Are Making Easterners Sick: U.S. Study

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• Western Wildfires Fueling Air Pollution During Summer Months

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• What Drives Preschoolers' Curiosity to Learn?

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• What If NYC's Cleaner Pandemic-Era Air Continued?

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• What Jobs Are Toughest on the Knees?

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• What Loneliness Looks Like in the Brain

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• What Makes for a Satisfying Work Zoom Meeting?

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• What Puts You at High Risk of Midlife Mental Decline?

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• 'What's Wrong With Me?' Young COVID Survivors Battle Long-Haul Symptoms

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• When Climbing Corporate Ladder, Women Are as Competitive as Men: Study

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• When Coal-Fired Power Plants Close, Kids With Asthma Breathe Easier

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• When Is Your Very Earliest Memory?

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• White House Sets Jan. 4 Deadline for Large, Private U.S. Companies to Mandate Vaccines

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• White Men's Grip on U.S. Health Care May Be Slipping

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• Why Are Gulf Coast Welders Dying From Anthrax-Like Disease?

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• Why Don't People Have Memories of Their Infancy?

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• Why Logging May Be the Most Dangerous Profession

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• Why Music at Bedtime Might Not Be a Great Idea

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• Why Some 'Super Ager' Folks Keep Their Minds Dementia-Free

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• Why U.S. Hispanics Got COVID at Higher Rates: Their Jobs

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• Wildfire Smoke Can Send Kids With Asthma to the ER

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• Wildfire Smoke Can Trigger Eczema, Study Finds

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• Wildfire Smoke Causes Rapid Damage to Your Health: Study

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• Wildfire Smoke Is Especially Toxic to Lungs, Study Shows

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• Wildfires Are Changing the Seasonal Air Quality of the U.S. West

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• Wildfires Cause More Than 33,000 Deaths Globally Each Year

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• Wildfires Plus Heat Make Breathing Dangerous in America's West

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• Wildfires Ravage Firefighters' Long-Term Physical, Mental Health

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• Will COVID Pandemic's Environmental Benefit Last?

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• Will Your Brain Stay Sharp Into Your 90s? Certain Factors Are Key

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• With Hurricane Season Here, Watch Out for One Carbon Monoxide Danger

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• Women Are Much Safer Drivers Than Men, British Study Finds

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• Women Less Likely Than Men to Return to Work After Severe Stroke

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• Women Less Likely to Ask for More Time When Deadlines Loom

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• Women More Prone to Concussion's Long-Term Harms: Study

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• Wood-Fired Cooking a Cause of Lung Illness in Developing World

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• Work Worries Keep Lots of Americans Awake Sunday Nights

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• Workers' Deaths From Paint Stripping Chemicals Are on the Rise

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• Workers in U.S. Southwest in Peril as Summer Temperatures Rise

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• Working From Home Brings Its Own Health Perils: Survey

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• Working From Home? Posture, Ergonomics Can Make It Safe

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• Working from Home? Here's How to Preserve Your Posture

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• Working Night Shifts Could Raise Odds for A-Fib

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• Years Before Diagnosis, People With Alzheimer's Lose Financial Acumen

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• You Don't Have to Be a Smoker to Get Lung Cancer

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• Your Eyes May Signal Your Risk for Stroke, Dementia

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• Your Job Could Put You at Much Higher Risk for Flu

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• Your Personality May Safeguard Your Aging Brain

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• Your Plant-Based Diet Could Really Help the Planet