Category: Washington Post

Would DOJ charge someone for leaking SCOTUS abortion opinion draft?

Almost certainly not, according to legal analysts, who said it would be a stretch of the Justice Department’s authority to even investigate the matter.

Fewer people with mental health, substance use disorders are smoking

The decline, though, didn’t apply to everyone.

Healthy lifestyle may increase life expectancy, research suggests

People with a healthy lifestyle lived with Alzheimer’s for a smaller proportion of their remaining years, the study also found.

Magnesium: ‘An essential nutrient’ for your body

This mineral can keep your heart healthy and your muscles strong.

How to protect pollinators and cope with pollen season

One step is to replace grass with native wildflowers, which will provide pollen and nectar for insects such as ants, bees and butterflies.

Virus mutations aren’t slowing down. New omicron subvariant proves it.

More than two years after it first spilled into humans, the virus continues to change its structure and chemistry in ways that confound efforts to bring it fully under control.

Babies die as congenital syphilis continues a decade-long surge

“The really depressing thing about it is we had this thing virtually eradicated back in the year 2000,” an official says.

Chronic pain is terrible. A new way of understanding it may help.

A doctor says medicine has the wrong approach to chronic pain and how to help people overcome it.

Vaccines for young kids could be available in June, FDA official says

A top FDA official said at least one of the two coronavirus vaccines for younger children could become available as soon as June.

Some people with agoraphobia struggle as pandemic wanes

Months of limited exposure to the rigors of daily commutes, crowded malls and other activities might have worsened symptoms, mental health experts say.