How Women Feel About an Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill
Most potential consumers were excited by the prospect, though sticker price and safety were lingering concerns.
Despite Aspartame Warning, Beverage Companies Likely to Stick With It
About eight years ago, in response to customer concerns about possible health risks associated with the artificial sweetener aspartame, PepsiCo decided to remove the ingredient from its popular diet soda. Sales flopped. A year later, aspartame was back in Diet Pepsi. Today, the top three ingredients listed in the tiny print on the backs of…
New Yorkers Find De Blasio’s Separation News to Be Refreshing
Many New Yorkers weren’t impressed with Bill de Blasio as mayor. But the way he’s handling his separation from his wife, Chirlane McCray? “Inspiring.”
How To Avoid Hunching At Your Desk
It’s time to get up (and fidget).
Aspartame and Cancer: What to Know About the WHO’s Advice
Experts say there’s no need to panic about your diet soda habit.
988 Suicide Hotline: What to Know One Year After Launch
The contestants on “Celebrity Jeopardy!” were stumped in the fall when asked about the new “3-digit national hotline phone number for suicide prevention” in the United States, which debuted last July. “What is 311?” the comedian Iliza Shlesinger guessed, wrongly. As it turns out, she was not alone. It has been one year since the…
E.R. Visits for Teenage Girls Surged During the Pandemic
As the coronavirus pandemic dragged through its second year, an increasing number of American families were so desperate to get help for depressed or suicidal children that they brought them to emergency rooms. A large-scale analysis of private insurance claims shows that this surge in acute mental health crises was driven largely by a single…
Racism and Sexism Underlie Higher Maternal Death Rates for Black Women, U.N. Says
Medical school curriculums, for example, include erroneous claims that Black women’s nerve endings are “less sensitive” and require less anesthesia, and that Black women’s blood coagulates faster than that of white women, leading to delayed treatment for dangerous hemorrhages, according to the report. It also found that textbook illustrations of childbirth were depicted on European…
Logan Paul’s Energy Drink Under Scrutiny Over High Caffeine Content
Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, has asked the F.D.A. to investigate a popular beverage created by the YouTube influencers Logan Paul and KSI over its high caffeine content.
Coronavirus Spread Widely in Deer, and Perhaps Back to People, U.S.D.A. Says
Why It Matters: Deer could be a source of new variants. There is no evidence that deer play a major role in spreading the virus to humans, but the transmission of the virus from people to animals raises several public health concerns. First, animal reservoir could allow viral variants that have disappeared from human populations…