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In many places, the debates over reopening are fraught. But in a survey, experts broadly agreed that schools don’t need vaccines to open safely. Many of the common preconditions to opening schools — including vaccines for teachers or students, and low rates of infection in the community — are not …

Deaths at a Sierra Leone sanctuary that stumped people for 15 years have now been linked to a bacterium that seems to cause similar ailments in humans. Chimpanzees had been dying mysteriously at the Tacugama sanctuary in Sierra Leone for a decade or so by 2016 when Tony Goldberg set …

Consuming foods high in vitamins C and E may help protect against the onset of Parkinson’s later in life, a Swedish study suggests. People who consume a diet rich in vitamins C and E may be at reduced risk for Parkinson’s disease. Researchers followed 41,058 Swedish men and women for …

Ulcerative colitis, the gastrointestinal affliction that has debilitated Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan so badly that he is resigning, is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, which is suffered by millions and can flare up unpredictably. It irritates and inflames the innermost lining of the large intestine and rectum, causing …

The 50-year-old physician dropped into the leather chair in her psychiatrist’s Manhattan office. Her new normal, she announced to Dr. Deborah Cabaniss, was constant fatigue. Cabaniss noted that although her patient looked put together as usual, she could see the exhaustion in her eyes. “You don’t look like yourself,” the …

  Dear Mark, You talk a lot about the evils of grains. I follow your logic on why a grain free diet is best, and I have seen weight loss and just feel better overall since heeding your advice. But there is one thing (well, more than one) that I …

Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki, who in 1967 first identified a disease in children that remains mysterious today and that has recently been in the news in relation to Covid-19, died on June 5 in Tokyo. He was 95. The illness, which produces inflammation around the heart and can be fatal, became …

Photo by AshTproductions / Shutterstock.com Switching to one of the world’s most popular and respected diets might lower your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. And consuming one specific component of the diet is likely to pay the biggest dividends. A recently published study from the National Institutes of Health looked …

Photo by fizkes / Shutterstock.com Many of us worry about being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Cancer, heart disease and Type 2 diabetes loom large in our fears, especially as we grow older. But we often overlook one generally less life-threatening but still potent condition, thyroid disease, which is more …