Jay Leno Granted Conservatorship of Wife Mavis Leno After Her Dementia Diagnosis_1

Jay Leno Granted Conservatorship of Wife Mavis Leno After Her Dementia Diagnosis

Jay Leno is standing by his wife Mavis Leno amid her battle with dementia.

Two months after filing paperwork seeking to establish a conservatorship over Mavis' estate, the former late night talk show host had his request granted by a Los Angeles County Superior Court…

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Under $200 Spring Wedding Dresses That Will Make You The Best-Dressed Guest

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If you're headed to a spring wedding, you're going to need a great wedding guest dress. Sure, all eyes will be on the bride as they walk down the aisle, but wh…

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Heartburn Drugs Linked to Increased COVID-19 Risk

A popular form of heartburn medication may increase a person’s risk of developing COVID-19, according to a new study, lengthening the already long list of risk factors for the virus.

In the study, published Tuesday in pre-print form in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, scientists led by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Dr. Brennan Spiegel conducted an online surv…

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How to Exercise When It’s Really Hot Outside

For people in many parts of the U.S.—as well as large portions of the world—the phrase “record heat” has been a regular part of the recent forecast. While that doesn’t mean you have to move your favorite outdoor workout into the gym, you may need to do it a little differently. Here’s what experts recommend for staying safe and active outdoors.

How hot …

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Inside the Race to Build the World’s First Commercial Octopus Farm

For decades, my father taught biology at Middlebury College in Vermont. One of his signature courses focused on invertebrates and, as a kid, I’d often tag along on class field trips to the Maine coast. Students would fan out across the rocky shore at low tide and count as many spineless creatures as they could—which, as it turns out, was pretty easy. There were dozens of invertebrat…

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Psychiatry Is Still Stuck in Freud’s Era. Big Data Can Revolutionize How We Care for Patients

I have a problem. I am a psychiatrist in the 21st century and yet I still evaluate patients the way Freud did a century ago: I sit with a patient and, by carefully observing how and what they say, I expect them to tell me what’s wrong.

The problem isn’t that I speak with and listen to my patients. Every doctor of every speciality does that. Rather, my problem is that I never m…

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Now’s The Time to Bring Up Menopause At Work

Being the chief people officer for the biotech giant Genentech was stressful enough, but last year, Cori Davis could tell that something more than just stress was starting to affect her. She kept waking up at night covered in sweat, making it difficult to get a good night’s sleep; during the day, she pushed through exhaustion to get her work done. A visit to Genentech’s campus healt…

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Ozempic Get the Oprah Treatment

Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound are already extremely popular: by 2030, about 10% of the U.S. population will be on one of these drugs and the category’s sales will surpass $100 billion, according to some projections. On March 18, they got another major cultural boost from Oprah Winfrey, who shared her own experience with—and support for—these medications in an ABC sp…

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Research Lacking on Plastic’s Health Impact in Global South_1

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network.

Some 13,000 chemicals are associated with plastic production, of which only 7,000 or so have been investigated for their health and environmental impacts. Nearly half of those studied have elements deemed hazardous to human health, but the research—spanning 50 years, multiple languages,…

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What the Potential Ban on Gas Stoves Means If You Have One

A federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves amid rising concern about the health risks associated with indoor air pollution from the appliances, particularly among children.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which can issue mandatory standards or ban consumer products if no feasible standard would adequately protect the public, plans to take action to address the gas p…

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