Ejection fraction (EF) measures the percentage of blood your left ventricle pumps out with each heartbeat. A typical range is 52% to 72% for males and 54% to 74% for females. An EF below 40% indicates ...

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To coincide with this year's Reith Lectures, entitled the Triumph of Technology, You and Yours asked what has been the most significant technological innovation since 1800. From the hundreds of ...

Shiva Naipaul’s newly reissued book of reportage, “Journey to Nowhere,” from 1980, is far less interested in the trope of the charismatic cult leader than in the mechanisms of belief.