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If you can afford to hire someone to perform some services for you, you can see benefits ranging from better health to more free time.

Can’t decide what to get the millennial on your gift list this Christmas? Here’s something that will help them create meaningful connections when they’re not able to see family and friends.

The next time you get sick, your care may involve a form of the technology people use to navigate road trips or pick the right vacuum cleaner online. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts of data and making predictions to guide care or help patients. It...

“Sesame Street” is taking a new step to try to help kids navigate life in America — it’s tackling the opioid crisis. Sesame Workshop is exploring the backstory of Karli, a bright green, yellow-haired friend of Elmo’s whose mother is battling addiction. The initiative is part of the Sesame Street in Communities resources available online. “Sesame Street” creators said they...

It can be hard to keep smiles healthy in rural areas, where dentists are few and far between and residents often are poor and lack dental coverage. Efforts to remedy the problem have produced varying degrees of success. The biggest obstacle? Dentists.

The 33-year-old former Amazon software engineer accused of hacking Capital One made little attempt to hide her attack. In fact, she effectively publicized it. It’s one of many riddles swirling around Paige Thompson, who goes by the online handle “erratic.” Well-known in Seattle’s hacker community, Thompson has lived a life of tumult, with frequent job changes, reported estrangement from family...

A Weston man who worked as a child therapist is facing multiple counts of possessing child pornography.

Xavier Soto has been desperately looking for answers since his 23-year-old partner, Jeimily Morales, died last June at a hospital in Puerto Rico, nine days after the pair returned from a vacation to the Dominican Republic. Soto, 27, believes Morales, the mother of a 4-year-old boy, was in good health during their trip in the neighboring Caribbean island. She had...

A Miami-Dade police lieutenant previously charged with molesting an underage girl is back behind bars after more allegations surfaced.

Days after the suicides of two student survivors of the Parkland school shooting, community leaders were frantically putting extra services in place Wednesday to try to connect with those hard-to-reach students who are averse to traditional therapy.

A North Miami police officer accused of shooting and wounding a severely autistic man’s caretaker will face a second trial on three of the four charges he previously faced, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

“I just go to the gym and juggle. Just a way to escape everything,” Barry Goldmeier said. He’s one of thousands of government employees furloughed during the shutdown. News4’s Shomari Stone spoke to a therapist about other ways furloughed workers can cope with the stress.

Activists urging more states to ban gay conversion therapy for minors are expecting major gains in 2019, thanks to midterm election results and the buzz generated by two well-reviewed films.

Whenever Brittany Hawley went to class, her loyal service dog Griffin was there. If she needed her cell phone, Griffin would fetch it. Even when she assisted patients as part of an internship, Griffin was there helping out as well. So it’s only fitting that when Hawley receives her master’s degree in occupational therapy from Clarkson University next month, Griffin...

Commissioners investigating the causes of the Parkland school massacre heavily criticized the actions of a sheriff’s deputy assigned to the school campus, calling him a coward for not confronting the gunman.

A young boy in Miami Gardens wants kids like him to speak up about their pain and anxiety. He’s getting his message out through his published book, Asthma Sucks. The book is one of three books following his struggles with severe asthma, anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

In an interview on the “Today” show on Thursday, the 33-year-old recalls his mental health struggles. At his lowest point, in October 2014, soon after a DUI arrest that led to a rehab stint, Phelps was so depressed he did not leave his room for several days and even contemplated suicidal.

Chest tightening. Uncontrollable shaking. Feeling like you’re breathing through a tiny straw. These are just some of the ways that 17-year-old Zach Crites experiences anxiety. Crites’ mom, Allison Heber, noticed that he had a higher level of anxiety when he was in elementary school. “His attendance in elementary school was abysmal,” Heber told TODAY. “And it was because he would...