Making it to the Olympics is a costly venture for American athletes. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports PARIS — Being an Olympic athlete in the U.S. is not only physically arduous, but financially costly. A recent report revealed 26.5 percent of high-performance American athletes earn less than $15,000 a year, according to “Passing the…
Howard H. Hiatt, a physician, scientist and academic who reshaped the field of public health, steering it away from the narrow study of infectious diseases toward big-picture issues of fiscal and societal accountability in medicine, died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 98. His son Jonathan Hiatt said the cause was…
What the research shows A research team analyzed records of nearly a million women in Sweden’s national medical registries from 2001 through 2017, comparing 86,551 women who had perinatal depression with 865,510 women who did not. The groups were matched by age and year they gave birth. In two studies, the team found that depression…
