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To certain younger Americans, cursive writing is nothing more than an inscrutable collection of loops and squiggles. A growing number of states are trying to change that.

Recently, I read the hard copy document of a doctor’s diagnosis:

As I enjoy the last dregs of summer in Chicago, I bask in the nearly-perfect pre-winter weather, the joy in returning my kids to school, and the mouth-watering vegetables that are finally ready to…

It’s now been a full week since the release of “Barbenheimer,” a pop culture reference to the worldwide opening of two very American films: Barbie and Oppenheimer. The former is a take on the…

This week is typically a quiet one in the U.S., with a short week for a national holiday, and summer vacation plans starting to get put into action, so I want to keep my note brief. In this…

There are different types of staph infections and they show up in different ways. Here, doctors share the signs and symptoms of staph and MRSA infections to know.

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"Greater awareness” campaigns can often be little more than pharmaceutical marketing tactics that turn normal human feelings into illnesses.

New pandemic advice from the New York Times: Practicing good hygiene may be worse than COVID-19 The title of a puzzling opinion piece published recently in the New York Times, written by author Markham Heid, asks: “Can we learn to live with germs again?” The subtitle proceeds to answer the curious question by suggesting that our health depends on resuming our pre-pandemic “lifestyles that expose us to bacteria, despite the risks” posed by the coronavirus. In short, the entire article p...

A few months ago, I was sitting on the porch with my ear buds in listening to music. I had it set to shuffle through the many songs I enjoy--some of which are quite melancholy or heartbreaking in nature. Now often, depending on my mood or the activity Im engaging in, Ill skip through the songs with a sadder message in an effort to try and avoid feeling...well, sadder. For some reason, though, I felt compelled to let the sad songs that shuffled up play through. Yeah, initially I felt a bit more...