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You never know what’s going to stick in the littlest minds. “Sometimes I’ll have kids tell me something their grandmother or coach said—and it might be something that the rest of us would shrug off, but for that child, it really made an impact,” says Amy Morin, a therapist and author of 13 Things Strong Kids Do. That’s why it’s important for parents to get into the habit of repeating nuggets of wisdom that become mantras bouncing around in their kids’ minds for potentially years to come.

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We asked Morin and other therapists to share the easy-to-remember gems they wish every kid knew.

“Mean people are just showing how they feel about themselves.”

If someone is bullying you, Morin tells her youngest clients, it’s because they feel bad about themselves. “It’s so important for kids to know that if you felt good about yourself, you’d be kind to other people,” she says. “Mean peoples’ words and behaviors are a reflection of what’s going on inside of them, ..

Want to enjoy a long, healthy, and happy life? Just live like a centenarian.

That’s the advice of Stacy Andersen, a behavioral neuroscientist at Boston University and co-director of the New England Centenarian Study, the largest study of centenarians and their families in the world.

The study, which has enrolled more than 3,000 centenarians over its 30-year history, has been exploring the genetic factors, lifestyle choices, and environmental influences that appear to play a role in the longevity of people who live to 100 and beyond. The hope is that by studying centenarians, researchers can find treatments, as well as identify habits and environmental factors, that could help everyone live healthier for longer.

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“Our goal is not to get everyone to live to age 100. What we’re trying to understand is: How do you live to whatever age—your 70s, 80s, or 90s—in very good health?” Andersen says.

It turns out that centenarians, on average, don’t smoke, ea..

In August, Lance Johnson woke up in the middle of the night with excruciating stomach pain in his lower right side. He initially blamed it on the pizza and ice cream he had enjoyed the night before. But five sleepless hours later, the 17-year-old from Phoenix was still suffering, so he decided to consult the nearest expert: ChatGPT.

“I described what I’d eaten the night before and where the pain was, and I was like, ‘Do you think it’s just my stomach?’ And then it said that it sounded like it was appendicitis based on how long it was lasting and where it was,” Johnson says. “I kept asking it more questions, like could it be anything else? And it said, ‘Based on what you described, you should get it checked out.’”

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Johnson followed the bot’s advice—and, sure enough, the doctors at the emergency room soon said that he did, in fact, have appendicitis and needed immediate surgery. When he told them he had suspected as much because of ChatGPT’s insights, “..

Most of us now view COVID-19 as more of a nuisance than a danger, thanks to vaccines and past exposure to the virus—all of which have built up our immunity.

But research suggests that multiple COVID-19 infections pose a risk for developing Long COVID. In the largest Long COVID study of young people to date, scientists led by a team at the University of Pennsylvania report that young people who got infected twice with COVID-19 were twice as likely as those who got COVID-19 once to develop Long COVID symptoms that affect major organs like the heart, kidney, and lungs, as well as taste and smell.

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The ongoing research project, called RECOVER, is funded by the National Institutes of Health and explores the impact of COVID-19 infections on long-term health. Yong Chen, professor of biostatistics and director of the Center for Health AI and Synthesis of Evidence (CHASE) at the University of Pennsylvania, and his colleagues focused on people 21 and younger to..

A therapist’s job is to listen—but not all words are music to their ears. Some indicate that clients aren’t taking the process seriously; others reveal misunderstandings that need to be clarified or deep-rooted beliefs that need to be corrected.

We asked a handful of therapists which phrases drive them up a wall—and why.

“I don’t want to take up too much time.”

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When someone spends 15 minutes apologizing for being in Lauren Auer’s office, they’re burning through the exact time they’re worried about wasting. “They made the appointment,” says Auer, a therapist in Peoria, Ill. “They know how long it is, so it’s nothing worth apologizing for. It’s literally my job.” Yet she ends up needing to devote part of the session to convincing her client they deserve to be there.

There may be underlying beliefs about worthiness at play: “A lot of times, it’s rooted in what they’ve learned about taking up space or being too much,” Auer says. If she and the client h..

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump and Congress put into place a program that allowed people on Medicare to get their health care over the Internet.

The policy proved wildly popular. Nearly half of Medicare beneficiaries received telehealth services in 2020 in an effort to keep their distance from hospitals and doctor’s offices during the pandemic.

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But the program is set to expire Sept. 30 without Congressional action, which would leave millions of seniors suddenly unable to access the telehealth care that allowed them to avoid long drives and crowded waiting rooms. The program has been threatened before—Congress had to extend it in 2021, 2022, 2023, and in March 2025—but telehealth advocates say that they have little hope that the program will be saved in time for services to avoid disruption.

“People are going to go to sleep tonight having had telehealth coverage since the beginning of the pandemic—and most of the..

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump and Congress put into place a program that allowed people on Medicare to get their health care over the Internet.

The policy proved wildly popular. Nearly half of Medicare beneficiaries received telehealth services in 2020 in an effort to keep their distance from hospitals and doctor’s offices during the pandemic.

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But the program is set to expire Sept. 30 without Congressional action, which would leave millions of seniors suddenly unable to access the telehealth care that allowed them to avoid long drives and crowded waiting rooms. The program has been threatened before—Congress had to extend it in 2021, 2022, 2023, and in March 2025—but telehealth advocates say that they have little hope that the program will be saved in time for services to avoid disruption.

“People are going to go to sleep tonight having had telehealth coverage since the beginning of the pandemic—and most of the..

Anyone who’s accidentally smudged or chipped a freshly painted nail understands the allure of the gel manicure. The procedure, in which gel polish is applied and then cured under a lamp, results in a shiny, durable manicure that lasts around two weeks.

But in September, the E.U. banned a key ingredient in gel nail polishes called trimethylbenzoyl diphenylphosphine oxide, or TPO—making many people second-guess the safety of a gel manicure.

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“There are definitely some potential pitfalls and dangers, but honestly, millions and millions of women worldwide use gel nails and do not have problems,” says Dr. Phoebe Rich, a dermatologist in Portland, Oregon, who specializes in the prevention and treatment of nail disorders.

The key, experts agree, is to take a few simple precautions. Before you book your next gel manicure, here’s what you need to know.

Understanding the E.U. ban on TPO

TPO is a photoinitiator, which means it starts the reaction that caus..

This story is part of the 2025 TIME100 Next. Read Aileen Lee’s tribute to April Koh here.

April Koh vividly remembers the first time she tried to talk to her mother about her mental health, when she was about nine years old.

“She was doing the laundry, and I kind of snuck up behind her and said to her, ‘I think I’m depressed,’ and she told me, ‘Don’t be ridiculous.’”

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Her mother’s response didn’t come from a lack of care but a lack of understanding. “My mother is incredibly loving and the best mother I could have hoped for, but she didn’t have the vocabulary to talk about what I was feeling and what I was going through,” Koh says.

In the following years, it became clear to Koh that the conversation about mental health was challenging for families across the country. Mental health is often not addressed in a deep and meaningful way in our society, stemming from the stigma and discomfort many people feel because they don’t fully understand conditions ..

For many Americans, getting an abortion has become far more difficult since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in2022. But even in the face of states imposing new restrictions and clinics shutting down, the number of abortions continued to climb each year—until, it seems, this one.

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About 518,940 abortions were provided by clinicians in states without near-total abortion bans in the first six months of 2025—a 5% decrease compared to the same period the year before, according to new research released by the Guttmacher Institute, which studies and supports sexual and reproductive health and rights. The number of people traveling across state lines for an abortion in that time also fell—by about 8%—compared to the same period in 2024.

The new findings mark a reversal of the trend seen in previous research the Guttmacher Institute has released: past data revealed that the number of abortions provided by clinicians in most of the U.S. jumped up by 11..