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It’s more than passing strange that in two months a pair of virtuosic novels have pivoted off similar events: commercial aircraft shot down amid heightened political tensions. Ed Park’s “Same Bed Different Dreams” re-creates the Soviet Union’s 1983 targeting of Korean KAL 007; and now Kaveh Akbar’s dazzling “Martyr!” evokes the 1988 tragedy of Iran Air Flight 655, blown out of the sky by missiles fired from the USS Vincennes, which mistook the jet for a military fighter. A poet and editor at the Nation, Akbar taps his impeccable ear to enrich this fiction début.

PITTSBURGH — Charles Bier was the kid with snakes in his pockets.

When winter storms hit, good balance can prevent falls and injuries — ranging from broken arms, legs or hips to back injuries and concussions.

Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder that triggers the thyroid gland to produce more thyroid hormones than the body needs. It’s the most common cause of hyperthyroidism, or an overactive thyroid.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Epcot International Festival of the Arts, the first theme park special event of 2024, has launched. And there are notes to be made. It’s a brief fest by Walt Disney World standards, running daily through Feb. 19, so act fast. The lineup includes hands-on artistic activities, Broadway-level performances, interaction with artists, culinary arts and shopping.

Q: My child returned to my home after his weekend with his mother and while he was getting ready for bed, he mentioned that his mother didn’t come home last night. He’s only 14. What should I do? What’s good ex-etiquette?

Fourteen months after a debilitating breakup, I realize things need to change.

The number of older adults with disabilities — difficulty with walking, seeing, hearing, memory, cognition, or performing daily tasks such as bathing or using the bathroom — will soar in the decades ahead, as baby boomers enter their 70s, 80s, and 90s.

In January of 2020, I found myself at Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. I had a brain tumor and needed surgery to remove it, but first my neurosurgeon wanted to get the swelling in my brain under control.

Every day, we all use many personal care products such as soaps, lotion, hair products and toothpaste. Some of these products can contain chemicals such as phthalates, which have been linked to health effects, such as interfering with the hormone system.