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A long-term care insurance policy covers a variety of medical, personal and supportive services provided at home, in an assisted care facility or in a nursing home for an extended period of time. It can help you avoid depending on others for care, preserve your independence, protect your standard of living and give you greater choices if you need confined care or home health care.

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Mind: Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits

Psychologists have discovered that some of the most hallowed advice on study habits is flat wrong.

Consumer Reports Is Rating Surgical Groups

The magazine published ratings of 221 heart bypass surgical groups from 42 states online on Tuesday and will print them in its October issue.

Bristol-Myers Agrees to Acquire ZymoGenetics for $885 Million

The two companies agreed in January to jointly develop ZymoGenetics?s hepatitis C drug and share the profits.

Judge Keeps Ban on Stem Cell Funds

A federal judge refused to lift a ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.

Khan Yunis Journal: Finding a Steadier Path in Gaza

An American psychiatrist?s program of techniques to reduce stress has helped people in Gaza and Israel deal with the effects of violence.

In Feast of Data on BPA Plastic, No Final Answer

Everyone is exposed to BPA, but after hundreds of studies, there is no consensus about its safety.

Health Care Wastefulness Is Detailed in Studies

A heavy reliance on emergency rooms care is seen as a sign of weaknesses in the primary health care system.

Tasty Vegan Food? Cupcakes Show It Can Be Done

Vegan eating has had a growth spurt in recent years, but a victory on a Food Network baking show this summer has showered attention on vegan food's fine taste.

Learning to Talk the Talk in a Hospital

Communicating a patient's story is a matter of getting right and saying it fast.

Topical Gel Catches Up With Pills for Relief

Controlled trials suggest that a topical nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug in a cream is as effective as their oral counterparts for treating osteoarthritis, soreness and tendinitis.

At Hospitals, New Methods With a Focus on Diversity

As more immigrants crowd their waiting rooms, a growing number of hospitals are adopting practices intended to improve care for an increasingly diverse patient population.

Global Update: Tuberculosis: Automated Test for Drug-Resistant TB Gives Results in Hours, Not Weeks

Research indicates the test is 98 percent accurate when compared with positive results from the old method ? examination of sputum by a trained microscopist.

Vital Signs: Nostrums: A Bit of Marijuana Is Found to Ease Pain

Patients with persistent nerve damage inhaled, and felt better, but did not get high, a Canadian study reports.

Vital Signs: Risks: Asleep, and Helping to Keep the Weight Off

Children under 5 who do not get at least 10 hours of sleep at night are almost twice as likely to be overweight or obese later in childhood, a new study reports.

Vital Signs: Prevention: Surgery Sharply Reduces Risk of 2 Cancers

For women who carry a genetic mutation that puts them in danger of developing ovarian and breast cancer, prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy offer protection.

Q & A: The Hair of My Chin

If I tweeze out the single hair that grows from a facial mole, will it cause cancer, as my friend insists?

Recipes for Health: Orange Chicken With Vegetables

This is a mild version of Grace Young?s spicy orange chicken, with as much emphasis on vegetables as on chicken.

Child?s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young

Powerful drugs are given to young children despite a lack of study on how they affect development.

Doctor and Patient: Tending to Patients During a Hurricane

Dr. Ruth Berggren was among a team of nurses and doctors that stayed with patients during Hurricane Katrina.

Mind: Lasting Pleasures, Robbed by Drug Abuse

Drugs have a competitive advantage over natural rewards and can hijack the brain?s reward system.

Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all.

Doctor and Patient: Can Concierge Medicine for the Few Benefit the Many?

At a boutique practice at Tufts Medical Center, retainer fees support the general practice, teaching and free health care.

National Briefing | Health: ?Magic Mushrooms? May Help Cancer Patients, Study Says

The hallucinogen psilocybin, known by the street name magic mushrooms, may help ease the anxiety that often accompanies late-stage cancer, researchers said Monday.

Business Briefing | Regulatory News: British Regulators Call for Removal of Avandia

Air Products raised its takeover offer for Airgas to $5.48 billion in cash.

Tsung-yi Lin, 89, Psychiatrist With Global Approach, Dies

Dr. Lin also all but built the mental health system from the ground up in his native Taiwan, later helping governments in other developing nations to do the same.

Phys Ed: How to Fix a Bad Tennis Shoulder

Aching shoulders are among the most common overuse tennis injuries, robbing professionals and duffers of playing time and comfort.

For Young and Old, the Best Ways to Study

As students around the country go back to school and hit the books, scientists are offering new insights into the best ways to study and learn.

Vegetarian Recipes for Barbecue Season

If your Labor Day plans include a picnic or barbecue, be sure to check out Martha Rose Shulman's latest installment of Recipes for Health, which offers flavorful options for vegetarian eaters.

Sunday Shopping Takes Toll on Happiness

If the traditional day of rest and worship has become your day to shop, it may be taking a toll on your happiness.

Creating a Safer Kitchen

Food scares, such as the latest contaminated egg problem, often trigger a rethinking in cooking and shopping habits. In today's Patient Money column, Walecia Konrad explores the costs and options consumers face on their quest for germ-free kitchens.

Personal Health: Weight Problems May Begin in the Womb

Excessive weight gain in pregnancy can result in bigger-than-average babies who are prenatally programmed to become overweight children.

Really?: The Claim: The Day?s Events are Incorporated Into That Night?s Dreams.

Scientists have discerned a peculiar but predictable pattern in which dreams tend to occur.

Group Gets Men Talking

A group at the Riverdale Senior Center helps fight the isolation of aging in men.

Helping a Neighbor in Need

New Web sites aim to connect those in need with friends and acquaintances willing to provide rides and meals, do chores or pay visits.

Fear of Falling

Can exaggerated anxiety about falling -- even if tests show your risk to be low -- increase the probability that you'll actually fall?

Bristol-Myers Squibb to Buy ZymoGenetics

The deal is about $885 million, Bristol said.

The Week Ahead in Health Industry News

This week focuses on news about emergency room visits and the ramifications of the health care law.

Another Kind of Medical Error

The rate of diagnostic error may average about 10 percent.

Letters: Headaches and Bedtime (1 Letter)

Letters to the editor.

Letters: Not for Men Only (1 Letter)

Letters to the editor.

Letters: Identical Values (1 Letter)

Letters to the editor.

Letters: Putting Babies at Risk (1 Letter)

Letters to the editor.

Letters: The Bedbug Files (2 Letters)

Letters to the editor.

Will Aging Chimps Get to Retire, or Face Medical Research?

A move of some of 186 chimpanzees to a research center in Texas has spurred outrage among animal rights advocates, primate experts and politicians.

Study Sees Heart Risk in Meridia Diet Pill

A clinical trial found that the controversial drug increased the risks of heart attacks and strokes while doing little to slim their waists.

Finding Suggests New Aim for Alzheimer?s Drugs

A discovery by Paul Greengard, an 84-year-old scientist and Nobel winner, has illuminated a new direction.

New Rivals to Warfarin as Blood Clot Preventer

A Bristol-Myers drug shows promise in treating a heart rhythm disorder, and others combat postsurgical clotting and deep vein thrombosis.

Recipes for Health: Stir-fried Succotash With Edamame

Sweet and seared flavors combine in an Asian version of the American classic.

Recipes for Health: Stir-fried Tofu With Carrots and Red Peppers

With ingredients that keep well in the refrigerator, this dish is especially easy to pull together.

Recipes for Health: End-of-Summer Stir-Fries

With farmers? markets overflowing, now is a perfect time for stir-frying.

Recipes for Health: Grilled Leeks With Romesco Sauce

Steamed and grilled leeks are paired with romesco sauce, a nut-thickened pepper purée.

City?s Efforts Fail to Dent Child Obesity

Forty percent of the nearly 637,000 children in kindergarten through the eighth grade were found to be overweight or obese in the 2008-9 school year.

F.D.A. Backtracks and Returns Drug to Market

After being flooded with complaints, the agency said it would continue to allow the sale of the drug midodrine.

Modified Salmon Is Safe, F.D.A. Says

The assessment makes it more likely that the fish will become the first genetically modified animal to enter the American food supply.

Deal Would Provide Dialysis to Illegal Immigrants in Atlanta

The deal, if completed, would end a yearlong impasse that has come to symbolize the health care plight of the country?s uninsured immigrants and the hospitals that end up caring for them.

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