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They already had an anxiety disorder. Now comes a pandemic.

NEW YORK – At first, Jonathon Seidl wasn’t worried about the coronavirus despite his anxiety disorder. But that changed. The 33-year-old digital media strategist from Dallas, who ...

DATE: Mar 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Loss of smell, taste, might signal pandemic virus infection

NEW YORK – A loss of smell or taste might be an early sign of infection with the pandemic virus, say medical experts who cite reports from several countries. It might even serve a...

DATE: Mar 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Science Says: How risky is that virus? Your mind may mislead

NEW YORK – Anna Alexander, a property manager in Virginia Beach, Virginia, started the day Monday thinking that she might avoid shaking hands because of the coronavirus outbreak. Then somebo...

DATE: Mar 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Colorado fossil trove shows life’s fast recovery after massive extinction

NEW YORK – A remarkable trove of fossils from Colorado has revealed details of how mammals grew larger and plants evolved after the cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs. The thousa...

DATE: Nov 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Science Says: Airplane turbulence can strike out of the blue

NEW YORK – They literally don’t see it coming. “Clear-air turbulence,” which evidently jolted an Air Canada flight earlier this month over the Pacific Ocean, strikes almost litera...

DATE: Jul 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Science Says: Airplane turbulence can strike out of the blue

NEW YORK – They literally don’t see it coming. “Clear-air turbulence,” which evidently jolted an Air Canada flight Thursday over the Pacific Ocean, strikes almost literally out of...

DATE: Jul 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

‘Zombie cells’ buildup in your body may play role in aging

NEW YORK – Call them zombie cells – they refuse to die. As they build up in your body, studies suggest, they promote aging and the conditions that come with it like osteoporosis a...

DATE: May 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Lab test may identify dangerous gene mutations, study finds

NEW YORK – Scientists say they’ve found a new way to help determine whether specific genetic abnormalities are likely to make people sick, a step toward avoiding a vexing uncertainty that ca...

DATE: Sep 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Gene tests can provide health clues – and needless worry

NEW YORK – Last year, Katie Burns got a phone call that shows what can happen in medicine when information runs ahead of knowledge. Burns learned that a genetic test of her fetus ...

DATE: Jul 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Studies link legal marijuana with fewer opioid prescriptions

NEW YORK – Can legalizing marijuana fight the problem of opioid addiction and fatal overdoses? Two new studies in the debate suggest it may. Pot can relieve chronic pain in adults...

DATE: Apr 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Ancient penguin was as big as a (human) Pittsburgh Penguin

NEW YORK – Fossils from New Zealand have revealed a giant penguin that was as big as a grown man, roughly the size of the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The creature was slig...

DATE: Dec 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Some flowers create blue halo to say hello to foraging bees

NEW YORK – Some flowers have found a nifty way to get the blues. They create a blue halo, apparently to attract the bees they need for pollination, scientists reported Wednesday. ...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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