How to Make a Staycation Feel Like an Actual Break
A ‘mental flip’ can help make your time off more restorative, even if you’re not traveling far.
A ‘mental flip’ can help make your time off more restorative, even if you’re not traveling far.
Yadira Salcedo was born in Mexico to parents who did not know how to swim. As a child, she nearly drowned when she waded too deep in a backyard pool. Now a mother of two in Santa Ana, Calif., Ms. Salcedo is “breaking the cycle,” she said, making sure Ezra, 3, and Ian, 1, never…
Sleep needs shift throughout the lifespan. Experts offer tips to get more rest — no matter how old you are.
Sue Johanson, the blunt, bawdy and beloved Canadian sex educator and host of the long-running television call-in program “Sunday Night Sex Show” and its American counterpart, “Talk Sex With Sue Johanson,” died on June 28 at a care facility in North Toronto. She was 92. Her death was confirmed by her daughter Jane Johanson. Sue…
Laws in 20 states have left the fate of clinics in doubt and families with transgender children searching for medical care across state lines. July 6, 2023 David and Wendy Batchelder hate the thought of putting their spacious house in West Des Moines, Iowa, on the market, disrupting the routines of their six children or…
A new shortage of a type of penicillin crucial to the fight against syphilis is alarming infectious disease experts, who warn that a protracted scarcity of the drug could worsen the U.S. epidemic of the sexually transmitted infection. The shortage, announced by the drugmaker Pfizer in a letter last month, involves Bicillin L-A, a long-acting…
The diet staple of the ’70s is jiggling back into the mainstream — bringing with it a host of health benefits.
Why It Matters As more than a dozen states banned abortion in the past year, women with unwanted pregnancies have turned in growing numbers to self-managed medication abortions. But the arduous and time-consuming methods needed to procure the drugs create delays, often meaning pregnancies are more advanced by the time the drugs arrive. The new…
On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration gave full approval to the drug Leqembi for patients who are in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, and Medicare said it would cover 80 percent of the cost of the $26,500-per-year medication. The decisions by the two federal agencies will vastly increase access to the drug but…
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday gave full approval to the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, and Medicare said it would cover much of its high cost, laying the foundation for widespread use of a medication that can modestly slow cognitive decline in the early stages of the disease but also carries significant safety risks. The…