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Give your knee a firm leg up

The knees may not always be the first to go: Hair, vision and the ability to locate one’s keys may precede them.
But when knees go bad, as they do so often in mid-life and beyond, costs and consequences can be severe: Knee injuries and osteoarthritis of the knee are major causes of disability in […]

The research is in: Women don’t really talk more

Women don’t talk more than men. Really, they don’t.
Really.
Popular wisdom would have it that women are much chattier than men, speaking 20,000 words a day, vs. the average man’s 7,000.
But a study being published Friday debunks that stereotype. Both men and women use about 16,000 words a day, says the new research, […]

Scientists create mouse gene able to target and kill cancer

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Scientists have created a mouse they say is resistant to all types of cancer.
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Personal Health: A Common Casualty of Old Age: The Will to Live

«health.nytimes.com» is more common among older Americans than any other age group. The statistics are daunting. While people 65 and older account for 12 percent of the population, they represent 16 percent to 25 percent of the suicides. Four out of five suicides in older adults are men. And among white men over 85, the […]

Success Better When Others Fail

By Laura Blue/London
Reward mechanisms in the brain depend on how well you think other people are doing, a new neurological study suggests. The findings, published in the Nov. 23 issue of the journal Science are the first to lend physiological proof to a longstanding theory among contemporary economists: that people are affected not only […]