The younger you start smoking, the more likely you are to smoke daily as an adult, even into your 40s,
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US braced for historic blow, as virus lands British PM in hospital
The coronavirus threatened Americans with their hardest week in memory on Monday and put Britain’s prime minister in hospital, despite
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Governor to take ventilators for NYC as hospitals buckle
With coronavirus deaths climbing rapidly in New York, the governor announced Friday he will use his authority to take ventilators
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Oral apixaban as good as dalteparin for treating cancer-associated clots
For people with cancer, the oral blood thinner apixaban is at least as effective as dalteparin, a low molecular weight
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Italy, Spain suffer record virus deaths as British PM tests positive
Italy on Friday recorded the most daily deaths of any country since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and Spain
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Want to make social distancing even more effective? It’s about time (as well as space)
While the world waits for an effective vaccine against COVID-19, we are relying heavily on social distancing—perhaps better termed “physical
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Virus cases balloon around the world as China recovers
As the rest of the world mobilized to fight the widening coronavirus pandemic on Saturday, China continued to ease up
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Altruism may not make people as happy as prior studies suggested
A pair of researchers, one with the University of Bonn, the other Harvard University, has found that altruism may not
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Germany quarantines 1,000 as coronavirus cases push past 50
Around 1,000 people were in quarantine in Germany’s most populous state Friday, as the number of confirmed cases of novel
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Italy moves to curb virus impact as more countries get cases
Italian health authorities asked residents in northern Italy to ride out shuttered schools, closed factories and other public health measures
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