Not up for a marathon? Try a relay race.

Whatever the reason for your resolution dissolution, I have a backup plan: Run a relay. Splitting up the work means you don’t need to train as hard or as long, plus you’re guaranteed to have at least one person cheering for you. In the case of the Delaware Marathon (May 13), you could have seven teammates. “A lot of people aren’t going to More...

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Overnight relay preparation

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Medical Mystery: What explained second-grader’s sudden panic and obsessions?

That November 2007 episode was the first of Will’s bizarre and inexplicable meltdowns; it would not be the last. For the next 16 months specialists in three states offered various explanations for why Will had More...

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Medical Mystery: Giving birth didn’t ease a woman’s dangerous hypertension

But Good’s did not. Her blood pressure remained dangerously elevated, sometimes reaching 180/120 mmHg, far above the 120/80 considered the upper end of normal. She had severe headaches and sometimes would see More...

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Medical Mysteries: Abdominal pain has been diagnosed, but it’s not curable

“Usually I would lie down in front of the TV with a bowl until it passed,” recalled Love, now 38. Between episodes, which lasted 24 to 48 hours and occurred on average every few weeks, she was fine. Doctors More...

By KS On Sunday, February 5th, 2012
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Medical Mysteries: Abdominal pain has been diagnosed, but it’s not curable

“Usually I would lie down in front of the TV with a bowl until it passed,” recalled Love, now 38. Between episodes, which lasted 24 to 48 hours and occurred on average every few weeks, she was fine. Doctors More...

By KS On Sunday, February 5th, 2012
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Medical Mysteries: It wasn’t the vaccine — so why did baby have seizures?

At the hospital, doctors reassured her that Michaela had suffered a febrile seizure, a frightening and usually harmless event they said was unlikely to recur. As a precaution, the baby was admitted for observation. More...