Two new studies examine the unexpectedly complex interactions that happen when you put a small child on your lap and open a picture book.
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Well: Older Athletes Have a Strikingly Young Fitness Age
Older athletes can be much younger, physically, than they are in real life.
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Well: A.D.H.D. Diagnosis Linked to Increased Risk of Dying Young
A Danish study found that individuals with a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder had twice the rate of premature death than those without the disorder.
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Well: How Exercise Keeps Us Young
Active older people resemble much younger people physiologically, according to a new study of the effects of exercise on aging.
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Well: Run to Stay Young
Running may reverse aging in certain ways, a noteworthy new study of active older people finds, while walking does not.
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Phys Ed: How Exercise Can Boost Young Brains
Encourage young boys and girls to run, jump, squeal, hop and chase after each other or after erratically kicked balls, and you can substantially improve their ability to think.
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How Exercise Can Boost Young Brains
Encourage young boys and girls to run, jump, squeal, hop and chase after each other or after erratically kicked balls, and you can substantially improve their ability to think.
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Well: Young Adults Need Flu Shots Too
Young adults who have not had a flu shot are at disproportionate risk of requiring hospital care this flu season, a small new study suggests.
Skin Cancer on the Rise in Young Women
Friends and colleagues were surprised to see the scar on my face because I was only 28. Even the medical resident who attended my surgery said I was the youngest skin cancer patient she had met. But as I learned more about skin cancer, I discovered that it is becoming increasingly common, especially among young women.
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Too Young to Have a Heart Attack
Proving to my teenage sons that 48 isn’t too old for fun, I had hung on for dear life as I zoomed behind a speedboat on a ski tube. The next day, when my left arm started hurting, I tried to reassure myself that this wasn’t a heart attack.
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