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As covid persists, nurses are leaving staff jobs — and tripling their salaries as travelers

Travel nurses can make a year’s pay in three or four months

Certain foods and beverages can interact with drugs

Patients should ask their health-care providers about these drug interactions.

Nursing home deaths rose 25 percent after Hurricane Irma, study finds

The facilities should have alternate power sources, the researchers say.

Why do couples use baby talk with one another?

For a couple, the baby talk is a sign of their bond — a boundary that sets them apart from everyone else.

Over half of young adults are obese or overweight, study says

Americans ages 18 to 25 are heavier now than they were four decades ago.

IVF used by some to avoid passing on genetic diseases to offspring

Some couples with muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis and other such ailments undergo in vitro fertilization and preimplantation genetic testing to find disease-free embryos.

End-of-life conversations may be helpful to patients and families

Guided conversations with the terminally ill are popular with patients, families and doctors. But researchers are looking beneath the anecdotal appeal.

I’m not alone in feeling lonely. There are ways to fight loneliness.

Loneliness is common. One study says that 3 in 5 American adults describe themselves as lonely — and that was before the pandemic.

Your questions about covid, answered: Omicron, indoor spaces, boosters, lockdowns

Reporters at The Post respond to four questions about the coronavirus.

Grappling with an uncertain reality as omicron and covid’s third year approach

Preparing for a long haul with the virus may help ease the anxiety of covid’s ebbs and surges.