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Numb hands at 3 a.m. and the finger that tells you which nerve

Shaking your hand out over the side of the bed isn't a quirk. It's a symptom, and which fingers go dead tells you where the problem starts.

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What Actually Keeps Your Mind Sharp After Sixty

Crossword apps aren't the answer. Your blood pressure, your hearing and your legs are doing most of the work.

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Land before dark and eat dinner at the bar

The planning that makes a solo trip safe is boring and takes one evening. Do it, and you get the good part with both hands free.

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Grief that doesn't lift after a year needs more than time

Mourning is supposed to change shape. When it doesn't, there's a name for it, there's a treatment, and you don't have to white-knuckle another year.

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Getting Internet That Works Ten Miles From the Cable Line

Satellite, fixed wireless, cellular, or a phone call to your electric co-op. What holds up on a work call, and what quietly takes your money.

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Put the mom guilt down, and keep the part that's true

Some of it's a signal you should act on by Thursday. Most of it's a rerun you've been watching since the hospital parking lot.

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Cancer in the family and when genetic testing is worth it

Build the family tree first, test the relative who's sick if you can, and know what a "variant of uncertain significance" actually means.

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Is your money actually in order?

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Marrying again at seventy without splitting your family

The beneficiary forms matter more than the will, and the conversation with your kids matters more than both. How to get all three right.

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The first year of marriage the wedding planner skipped

Certified copies, beneficiary forms, the February slump, and the fight that isn't about the dishwasher. What actually fills year one.

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Forgetting Names at Fifty and When to Get It Checked

Most name-blanking at fifty is retrieval, not loss. But a few patterns are worth an appointment, and a few fixable things look exactly like memory trouble.

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Buy hay by the ton, and open a bale before you pay

How to judge hay in the field, what to pay attention to besides price, and how to stack it so the bottom row isn't compost by February.

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Where does your best time with your kids happen?

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Find one perfume you'll wear every day, and skip the rest

Three sprays, four hours of waiting, and a testing method that keeps you from buying another expensive bottle you'll hate by Thursday.

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Your legs won't sit still at night and ferritin is the test

The evening urge to move your legs has a name, a common cause, and a cheap blood test most people never get ordered.

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Nobody's mumbling, and you've known it for years

Men sit on hearing loss for the better part of a decade. What it's costing you, what the audiogram actually measures, and how to buy without getting fleeced.

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