Category: Health

A mother’s depression and anxiety from conception through the first year of the baby’s life is associated with negative developmental outcomes through adolescence, according to a study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. Read More

Not sleeping enough or getting a bad night’s sleep over and over makes it hard to control your appetite. And that sets you up for all sorts of health problems, including obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes. Read More

With talk of the possible availability of a vaccine candidate heating up, you might have heard the term Emergency Use Authorization — or EUA — all over the news lately. But what is it exactly, and how does it apply to vaccines? Read More

Cakes, cookies, pie. Read More

When the pandemic hit, couples found themselves worrying about getting sick, losing income, teaching their children at home while working full time (or worrying full time about sending them to school). Read More

While many colleges and universities are offering classes online, that hasn’t necessarily stopped students from gathering. And now some college towns are grappling with outbreaks of Covid-19 as the start of the fall semester complicates local responses to the pandemic. Read More

After time off from exercising, it’s understandable if you’re having a hard time getting motivated. You may even feel a bit bad, but I’m here to say it’s important to go easy on yourself. Read More

The AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial, halted last week after an unexplained illness in one of the volunteers, will resume, the University of Oxford announced Saturday. Read More

Growing up with “Sesame Street” in the early 1980s, I found pieces of myself in Cookie Monster’s sweet tooth, Big Bird’s gentleness and in Grover, who was outgoing and always willing to help others, even though he made a lot of hilarious mistakes. Read More

Vaccine clinical trials are notoriously difficult to conduct. Read More