Colon cancer survivor says it’s time to take the disease seriously
In a year that has already brought so much tragedy and loss, Chadwick Boseman’s death at age 43 seems unthinkably cruel and unfair. How could such a…
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Domestic violence in quarantine
INDIANA — On Sunday, an Indiana Gazette story cited a crime drop in recent weeks as the community largely stayed at home during the coronavirus shutdown….
Random noises drive you nuts? ‘The Sound of Silence’ is for you
As any New Yorker knows, silence and the city seem mutually exclusive. But in the new sci-fi indie “The Sound of Silence,” two Brooklynites have…
Patients left in the lurch as big health system and insurer duke it out in Pennsylvania
When you’re battling cancer, you can barely muster the energy to walk up a flight of stairs, let alone embark on a search for a…
Amid wave of states restricting abortion, advocates step up efforts to get women to clinics
The future of abortion access in the United States is in a major state of flux, with new restrictive laws or bills from red states…
Treating cancer patients like criminals won’t solve the opioid crisis
(CNN) I am a 45-year-old woman who’s always been in fairly good health. I practice yoga, run nine miles a week, love kale, avoid red…
Separated-at-birth triplets met tragic end after shocking psych experiment
When 19-year-old Robert Shafran drove from his home in Scarsdale, NY, to the Catskills for his first day at Sullivan Community College in 1980, he…
They Told A Fracking Company To Go Away. 3 Years Later, They’re Still in Court.
When Stacy Long learned in 2013 that a drilling company planned to dump its wastewater into an abandoned gas well two and a half miles…
Travel Fever (the Bad Kind): What to Do When You Get Sick On Vacation
Just keep all your bodily fluids inside until this SUV gets to the emergency room, I tell myself while being bumped and jostled down a barely…