American nurse exposed to Ebola admitted to Maryland hospital By Tribune News Services March 28, 2019 at 8:51 p.m. An American nurse who was exposed to Ebola while volunteering in an Ebola treatment unit...
The Google misery index: The times of year we’re most depressed, anxious and stressed By Christopher Ingraham June 18, 2018 at 4:25 a.m. Depression. Anxiety. Pain. Stress. Fatigue. Using Google's daily "search interest" feature, I've plotted the past...
Mouth to mouth: Kissing transfers 80 million bacteria, scientists say By Karen Kaplan March 29, 2019 at 10:53 a.m. Scientists have demonstrated that boys (well, men) really do have cooties (a simplified term for...
Regular pot smokers have shrunken brains, study says By Melissa Healy March 30, 2019 at 3:47 a.m. Experimental mice have been telling us this for years, but pot-smoking humans didn't want to...
Opioids prescribed by doctors led to 92,000 overdoses in ERs in one year By Karen Kaplan March 29, 2019 at 12:58 p.m. Prescription drug overdoses, a dangerous side effect of the nation's embrace of narcotic painkillers, are...
Breast cancer bond: Elgin support group is for double mastectomies By Meredith Rodriguez May 10, 2019 at 1:30 a.m. Ronnie O'Donnell counts herself among the most fortunate of breast cancer survivors because the cancer...
Individual genetic differences may affect Ebola survival: study By Julie Steenhuysen June 17, 2018 at 4:55 a.m. Scientists have been puzzling for years over why some people survive Ebola while many others...
Nurse fights Ebola quarantine, says she won’t be ‘bullied around by politicians’ By Roberta Rampton March 28, 2019 at 6:44 p.m. Saying she will not be bullied by politicians, a Maine nurse is giving the state...
Obama says volunteers in Ebola fight need support, not restrictions By Tribune News Services March 28, 2019 at 12:21 p.m. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that health workers volunteering to help treat Ebola patients...
What do fit women want? Strong or skinny? By Washington Post March 30, 2019 at 2:21 a.m. When Kristin Rance joined a CrossFit gym in Washington about a year ago, she had...