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“I’m ashamed to say I picked up W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘Of Human Bondage’ because the title seemed promising,” says the doctor and novelist, whose new novel is “The Covenant of Water.” “While it didn’t ...

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As part of the Social Medicine Frontiers series, the Heritage College will welcome Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine ...

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An Upstate pediatrician is transforming the way she treats her young patients by prescribing books alongside traditional ...

We rarely encounter health issues on our humble homestead, except mundane ailments involving chiggers, poison ivy or ticks. Still, I enjoy adding to my library of old-time cures and concoctions ? just ...