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How an ‘Effort-Reward Imbalance’ Can Make Work Miserable

How an ‘Effort-Reward Imbalance’ Can Make Work Miserable

Experts offer tips on what to do if you’re not getting the respect or compensation...

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Fight Over Covid Lab Leak Stalls Virology Research

Fight Over Covid Lab Leak Stalls Virology Research

Scientists doing “gain-of-function” research said that heightened fears of lab leaks...

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Harvard Cozies Up to #MentalHealth TikTok

Harvard Cozies Up to #MentalHealth TikTok

As young Americans turn to TikTok for information on mental health, the T.H. Chan...

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Roland Griffiths Is Dead at 77; Led a Renaissance in Psychedelics Research

Roland Griffiths Is Dead at 77; Led a Renaissance in Psychedelics...

The drugs had been the third rail of scientific inquiry. But in a landmark study,...

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New A.I. Tool Diagnoses Brain Tumors on the Operating Table

New A.I. Tool Diagnoses Brain Tumors on the Operating Table

A new study describes a method for faster and more precise diagnoses, which can...

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Medicare Enrollment Guide: 2024 Edition

Medicare Enrollment Guide: 2024 Edition

Open enrollment for Medicare plans began on Oct. 15 and ends on Dec. 7. Here’s what...

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Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.)

Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel...

Shedding the concept “completely strikes at our sense of identity and autonomy,”...

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Scientists Offer a New Explanation for Long Covid

Scientists Offer a New Explanation for Long Covid

In some patients, remnants of the coronavirus in the gut may stifle production of...

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Scientists Investigating Alzheimer’s Drug Faulted in Leaked Report

Scientists Investigating Alzheimer’s Drug Faulted in Leaked...

A professor at the City College of New York engaged in “significant research misconduct,”...

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F.D.A. Plans to Ban Hair Straighteners With Formaldehyde

F.D.A. Plans to Ban Hair Straighteners With Formaldehyde

The products, often marketed to Black women, have been linked to an increased risk...

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Wearables Track Parkinson’s Better Than Human Observation, Study Finds

Wearables Track Parkinson’s Better Than Human Observation,...

Sensors worn on the body may help scientists learn whether novel therapies are slowing...

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Her Strange Blisters Wouldn’t Go Away. What Was It?

Her Strange Blisters Wouldn’t Go Away. What Was It?

It started with a bout of dry, itchy skin. Soon everything hurt. A specialist found...

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Hoosen Coovadia, Medical Force in South Africa’s H.I.V. Fight, Dies at 83

Hoosen Coovadia, Medical Force in South Africa’s H.I.V....

An esteemed pediatrician, he overcame apartheid’s barriers to help make his country...

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Younger Women Get Lung Cancer at Higher Rates Than Men

Younger Women Get Lung Cancer at Higher Rates Than Men

Researchers are struggling to understand what is driving the gender disparity in...

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FDA Moves to Ban Sale of Vuse Menthol Vapes

FDA Moves to Ban Sale of Vuse Menthol Vapes

R.J. Reynolds menthol e-cigarettes are top sellers with an estimated $1.6 billion...

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FDA Issues Warning Over Misuse of Ketamine Therapy

FDA Issues Warning Over Misuse of Ketamine Therapy

Unsupervised treatment — fueled by telemedicine prescriptions — for various psychiatric...