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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lowered the recommended age from 65 to 50 for adults to get vaccinated against a type of bacteria that causes pneumonia and other illnesses. The shots protect against a cluster of infections known as pneumococcal disease, including a common form of pneumonia; …

When I take the train to the office, I usually sit in the quiet car, a magical place where no one conducts loud business meetings on Zoom at 7 a.m. I love it, not only because it’s relatively peaceful but because of the skirmishes that break out when someone violates …

Yet again this winter, millions of Americans will wonder if a nagging cough or body aches is a sign they’re coming down with Covid or the flu. This time, they’ll have an expanded array of tools to get an answer without leaving the house. There are now nine at-home tests …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday expanded its Covid vaccine recommendations, urging some people to get additional doses of the updated shots. The agency said that people 65 and older and those who are moderately or severely immunocompromised should receive a second dose of the vaccines that …

When I was in my early 20s, the apex of my people-pleasing years, I dated an aspiring poet. He didn’t want to get a job, he said, because it interfered with his creative process. He lived happily at home with his parents; I paid for everything else. As my debt …

Ileana Arroyo pushed a shopping cart down tidy aisles of fresh produce, whole grains, baby food and other items at a small grocery store in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago. Ms. Arroyo, who was shopping for food for her four children, scanned a wall of cereal. Above the brightly …

More than one in three adults in the United States has prediabetes, higher-than-normal blood sugar levels that can lead to diabetes. And more than one in 10 has diabetes, characterized by still higher blood sugar levels that can eventually lead to eye problems, heart disease, a stroke, nerve damage and …

I have two friends who recently lost someone very close. As people have tried to comfort them, they’ve repeatedly heard the same phrase: “Everything happens for a reason.” This only makes them feel worse. David Kessler, an author of several books on grief, heard the phrase a lot when he …

As Hurricane Milton battered Florida’s Gulf Coast on Thursday, Chloe Ottani followed the news with horror from her parents’ Connecticut home. She had just evacuated her apartment at the University of Tampa for the second time in two weeks. Ms. Ottani and other students were evacuated on Tuesday as Milton …

Kaley Karaffa had just turned 28 when the reality of having a weakened immune system as a cancer patient started to sink in. A few weeks earlier, at an annual medical exam, Ms. Karaffa had expressed concern to her doctor about enlarged lymph nodes near her collarbone. Testing showed that …