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Sociologist Elena Portacolone was taken aback. Many of the older adults in San Francisco she visited at home for a research project were confused when she came to the door. They’d forgotten the appointment or couldn’t remember speaking to her.

It seemed clear they had some type of cognitive impairment. Yet they were living alone.

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Sociologist Elena Portacolone was taken aback. Many of the older adults in San Francisco she visited at home for a research project were confused when she came to the door. They’d forgotten the appointment or couldn’t remember speaking to her.

It seemed clear they had some type of cognitive impairment. Yet they were living alone.

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LOS ANGELES -- Dressed in 7-inch neon heels and translucent yellow bell-bottoms, Mary Serritella was defying gravity and expectations on a recent Wednesday night at Hollywood's Bourbon Room.

Spinning gracefully around a silver pole to disco medley, she contorted her body into a series of improbable positions with even more improbable names ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Dressed in 7-inch neon heels and translucent yellow bell-bottoms, Mary Serritella was defying gravity and expectations on a recent Wednesday night at Hollywood's Bourbon Room.

Spinning gracefully around a silver pole to disco medley, she contorted her body into a series of improbable positions with even more improbable names ...Read more

At age 66, South Carolina physician Paul Rousseau decided to retire after tending for decades to the suffering of people who were seriously ill or dying. It was a difficult and emotionally fraught transition.

“I didn’t know what I was going to do, where I was going to go,” he told me, describing a period of crisis that began in 2017.

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At age 66, South Carolina physician Paul Rousseau decided to retire after tending for decades to the suffering of people who were seriously ill or dying. It was a difficult and emotionally fraught transition.

“I didn’t know what I was going to do, where I was going to go,” he told me, describing a period of crisis that began in 2017.

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From bone to heart health, aspirin has been linked to all kinds of benefits through the years — though many of these benefits have since been debunked. But according to a recent study, the pill may significantly lower colorectal cancer risks.

Published in JAMA Oncology, researchers analyzed data from over 107,000 people who were monitored ...Read more

People in their 50s with severely narrowed leg arteries may face a high risk for major amputations despite having emergency surgery to restore blood flow to their legs, new research shows.

The findings, published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, highlight the need for early detection and treatment of peripheral artery ...Read more

People infected with the COVID-19 virus in 2020 may have double the risk for future heart attacks, strokes or premature death from any cause up to three years later – even if they never showed signs of severe illness, according to new research. The risk may be considerably higher in people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the first year of the ...Read more

Inside a frame in Roberta and Andre Moore's den in Pasadena, California, are medals – the kind attached to wide striped ribbons that hang around the necks of athletes, signifying a race completed. The Moores also have a folder stuffed with numbers once pinned to their workout clothes while they walked various 5Ks during the past several years....Read more

A historic seaport where Russian explorers clashed with the Indigenous Tlingit people and Gold Rush pioneers “socialized” with prostitutes. An ill-fated love triangle whose spectral impact can still be felt. A former hotel whose halls are haunted by a grisly 70-year-old murder.

We walked the streets of Sitka, Alaska, on a late-summer ...Read more

I started strength training about nine years ago for admittedly vain reasons. Fresh off a breakup at the time, weight training offered a welcome distraction and the prospect of a revenge body.

I trained two or three times a week — nothing crazy, just good old fashioned bicep curls, weighted squats, plank holds. But the results were astounding...Read more

I started strength training about nine years ago for admittedly vain reasons. Fresh off a breakup at the time, weight training offered a welcome distraction and the prospect of a revenge body.

I trained two or three times a week — nothing crazy, just good old fashioned bicep curls, weighted squats, plank holds. But the results were astounding...Read more