As REM sleep declines, lack of deep sleep can shorten lifespan
Thu, 07/09/2020 - 12:00am
Deep sleep is essential for good health, and too little of it may shorten your life, a new study suggests.
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Businessman who acquired rural hospitals charged in $1.4B scheme
Thu, 07/02/2020 - 12:00am
A Miami entrepreneur who led a rural hospital empire was charged in an indictment unsealed Monday in what federal prosecutors called a $1.4 billion fraudulent lab-billing scheme.
Study: most kids able to avoid severe COVID-19
Thu, 07/02/2020 - 12:00am
A large European study confirms a rare bit of good news about COVID-19: children seem to be mostly spared from the worst of its effects.
Why more testing doesn’t explain rise in COVID hotspots
Thu, 06/25/2020 - 12:00am
Almost since COVID-19 was first recognized by public health experts, teams like that at Johns Hopkins University have done heroic work to gather and harmonize information from dozens of sources every day in order to make sense of the pandemic’s spread.
State’s mental health system relies on police
Thu, 06/25/2020 - 12:00am
LAWRENCE - Activists and citizens from Dodge City to the Kansas City suburbs are reconsidering the involvement of police in their communities - including whether officers should continue to help respond to mental health crises.