Drinking seven or more units of alcohol per week is associated with higher iron levels in the brain, according to a study of about 21,000 people.
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Could Moderate Drinking Lead To Cognitive Decline?
Posted on 23 July 2022.
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Mouse In The House: What Should We Do?
Posted on 21 July 2022.
My son Patrick came into the kitchen, his face worried. “I caught a mouse in the basement.” I looked at him and shrugged. Mice come into our house all the time, part of life in the Connecticut woods.
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Booster Now Or Wait? Riding Out Covid’s Next Wave
Posted on 20 July 2022.
Gwyneth Paige didn’t want to get vaccinated against covid-19 at first. With her health issues she wanted to see how other people fared after the shots.
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Health Care Debt: An Unexpected, Unhealthy Burden
Posted on 12 July 2022.
Politicians like to talk about how many Americans have health insurance. But what we don’t discuss is how many Americans — with and without health coverage — still go into serious health care debt.
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Raising Our Kids: How The Clues Were There All Along
Posted on 22 June 2022.
Recently I heard two young mothers musing about what their children might be when they grew up.
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Keeping the Faith — Or Your Willingness to Push Yourself — As You Grow Older
Posted on 20 June 2022.
Did you ever want to get really good at something when you were younger? As you grow older, you tend to lose some of the spark and the belief in yourself that you’ll succeed. But — there’s hope.
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