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How Healthy Are Avocados?

Here’s a highlight reel of their biggest nutritional benefits, plus delicious recipes to help you enjoy them.

By Caroline Hopkins

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How to Strengthen Your Bones With Exercise

Women are at higher risk of bone loss than men. But a few simple workouts can help to keep your skeleton strong and resilient.

By Danielle Friedman

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1. PTSD Treatments Are Falling Short for Many Patients
  
  Therapy and medication can help people recover from trauma, but many struggle to access the care they need.
  
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  Spray Sunscreen Is Convenient. But Does It Work?
  
  Dermatologists explain the benefits — and drawbacks — of this popular option.
  
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Sign Up for Well’s 5-Day Friendship Challenge

Strengthen your bonds and find out what kind of friend you are with this weeklong friendship tuneup.

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A Guide to Managing Covid This Summer

Experts say cases could rise in the coming weeks. Here’s what to know about symptoms, testing and treatment.

By Dani Blum

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Why Caffeine Can Make You Anxious

And what to do about it.

By Hannah Singleton

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What’s the Best Advice You’ve Received About Fatherhood?

With Father’s Day around the corner, we’re looking for tips you’d like to pass on.

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Your Partner Is Ignoring a Health Issue. Now What?

Using guilt and pressure rarely help, experts say.

By Jancee Dunn

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The Bird Flu Virus Adapted to Sea Mammals. It May Not Be Done Yet.

Huge die-offs of elephant seals occurred after the virus gained nearly 20 troublesome new mutations, scientists found.

By Apoorva Mandavilli
New Report Underscores the Seriousness of Long Covid

The National Academies said the condition could involve up to 200 symptoms, make it difficult for people to work and last for months or years.

By Pam Belluck
F.D.A. Panel Rejects MDMA-Aided Therapy for PTSD

An independent group of experts expressed concerns that the data from clinical trials did not outweigh risks for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

By Andrew Jacobs
What Is MDMA Therapy and What Are Its Risks?

An F.D.A. advisory panel dealt a setback to those seeking treatment for PTSD, citing health risks of the illegal drug and study flaws.

By Andrew Jacobs
F.D.A.’s Review of MDMA Cites Health Risks and Study Flaws

The agency’s staff analysis suggests that approval of the illegal drug known as Ecstasy for treatment of PTSD is far from certain, with advisers meeting next week to consider the proposed therapy.

By Andrew Jacobs and Christina Jewett
How to ‘Gray Rock’ Conversations With Difficult People

Some say that becoming as dull as a rock is an effective way to disengage.

By Christina Caron
Google Is Using A.I. to Answer Your Health Questions. Should You Trust It?

Experts say the new feature may offer dubious advice in response to personal health queries.

By Talya Minsberg
Bird Flu Has Infected a Third U.S. Farmworker

The worker had respiratory symptoms, unlike the first two. But the risk to the public remains low, federal health officials said.

By Apoorva Mandavilli
Girls of Color Are Getting Their Periods Earlier. No One Quite Knows Why.

Researchers have linked early menstruation to an increased risk of health problems later in life.

By Alisha Haridasani Gupta

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PTSD Has Surged Among College Students

The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among college students rose to 7.5 percent in 2022, more than double the rate five years earlier, researchers found.

By Ellen Barry