Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Wednesday evening that Kirk will be given an award at the ...

Health behavior experts have a question: If loneliness results in the same risk of dying early as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, could the strategies that greatly reduced smoking in the United ...

Leading a company can sometimes be a lonely proposition — you have to remain a little dispassionate, a little bit apart, and make decisions that affect your staff, choices only you can make. But a new ...

More U.S. adults ages 45 and older are feeling lonely, according to an AARP study. The survey, published Wednesday, found that 40 percent of respondents said they felt lonely. In 2010 and 2018, 35 ...

Loneliness can be dangerous. And the holidays for many can be a breeding ground for the kind of aching loneliness that causes both mental and physical issues. “Increased risk for cardiovascular ...

It took Kiran Desai nearly 20 years to write her new novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. I mean this as a sincere tribute when I say I'm amazed it only took her that long. Desai's near 700-page ...

You probably ask some version of this question when you see a friend around campus. And it does its job fairly well, despite its simplicity. But when I ask the men in ...

Kiran Desai’s third novel has been a long time in the making, said Lucy Scholes in The Daily Telegraph: its predecessor, “The Inheritance of Loss”, won the Booker Prize back in 2006. But despite this ...

Loneliness isn’t just a personal struggle—it’s a workplace challenge that quietly erodes trust, creativity, and performance. As a leader, you can counteract it by embedding connection directly into ...

A massive European study has uncovered a powerful connection between hearing loss, loneliness, and memory decline. Researchers at the University of Geneva found that older adults with hearing ...

Click here for the original audio and to read more. The United States is in an "epidemic of loneliness," according to the surgeon general. And while social media is often blamed for making people feel ...

One of the best predictors of your happiness at work is whether you have colleagues that you are close with. You don’t necessarily need to be friends with your colleagues—that is, you may not want to ...