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Major birth defects are associated with an increased risk for cancer in childhood. New research suggests the risk persists into adulthood. People born with birth defects have a higher risk for cancer throughout life, researchers report. It has been generally known that major birth defects are associated with an increased …

Photo by Noushad Thekkayil / Shutterstock.com If you work in a frontline position at a grocery store, your risk of contracting coronavirus is probably higher than you think. In fact, employees with customer-facing roles are five times as likely to test positive for the virus as colleagues who work in …

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Photo by ANRproduction / Shutterstock.com No matter how much you try to hunker down at home to avoid the coronavirus, there are some errands that are tough to avoid — such as grocery shopping. Unfortunately, shopping for such essentials can put you at higher risk of contracting the coronavirus, especially …

Girls born extremely prematurely may have an increased risk of depression from childhood through young adulthood. Using Finnish birth and health registries, researchers studied 37,682 people diagnosed with mild, moderate or severe depression, comparing them with 148,795 healthy controls. The children were born between 1987 and 2007, and their average …

Long-term exposure to noise may be linked to an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Researchers did periodic interviews with 5,227 people 65 and older participating in a study on aging. They assessed them with standard tests of orientation, memory and language, and tracked average daytime …

Recently, Dr. Aaron Carroll wrote a wonderful article on COVID-19 and personal risk for the New York Times. The article dove deep into how we, as humans, assess risk in our daily lives and how that normal assessment of risk doesn’t actually match up well to the realities of the …

BUSAN, South Korea — The scandal that riveted South Korea’s online busybodies began when Kim Ji-seon checked into a beachside condominium in February. A 29-year-old office worker planning a June wedding, she had nothing more salacious in mind than meeting with members of her church to organize a youth program. …

Mark’s Daily Apple veterans are familiar with one of the most controversial and impactful posts ever published to the site, Mark’s 2007 treatise called A Case Against Cardio. The article changed my life and caused me to rethink many of the flawed assumptions about endurance training that have been indoctrinated …