She immediately sent an email to Bicket, telling the doctor that she was going to stop that medication and just use the others. Maybe it was this medicine that was causing the photophobia, the eye dryness and now the burning. “I’m fine with any short-term IOP-drop experiment you’d like to run,” Bicket wrote back. But…
Scientific understanding of the coronavirus variant is changing quickly. Here’s a recap of the most important findings.
Here’s what you need to know: Construction workers setting up tents outside Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston on Monday. Officials plan to use the tents to handle an overflow of Covid patients.Credit…Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle, via Associated Press Two court rulings on Tuesday cleared the way for local leaders who oppose a ban by…
In the past few weeks, the vast majority of the most highly engaged social media posts containing coronavirus misinformation were from people who had risen to prominence by questioning the vaccines in the past year. In July, the right-wing commentator Candace Owens jumped on the misstatement from Britain’s scientific adviser. “This is shocking!” she wrote.…
Un estudio en el que los participantes redujeron su consumo de ácidos grasos omega-6 en favor de una dieta rica en omega-3 mostró una esperanzadora reducción en la cantidad de días de migrañas al mes.
In Ohio, as in the rest of the country, private businesses can impose their own requirements on employees and patrons. Federal government employees are required to be vaccinated or face regular testing, but state and local government institutions set their own rules. In Ohio, more than 800 school districts and other local entities function independently,…
What is clear is that a confluence of factors — including Delta’s contagiousness and the fact that people under 12 are not yet eligible to be vaccinated — is sending more children to the hospital, especially in areas of the country where the virus is surging. “If you have more cases, then at some point,…
There is no better time than now to bump up the health resources for children in schools, experts say.
In classes, Messiah, an honors student, said “my mind would kind of feel like it was going somewhere else.” In a June appointment at Children’s National that the Times observed, Dr. Abigail Bosk, a rheumatologist, told him his post-Covid fatigue was more debilitating than simple tiredness. His athleticism, she said, should help recovery, but “it’s…
Dr. Marc Lieberman, an ophthalmologist and self-proclaimed “Jewish Buddhist” who, when he wasn’t treating glaucoma, organized a dialogue between Jewish scholars and the Dalai Lama, and who later brought sight back to thousands of Tibetans stricken by cataracts, died on Aug. 2 at his home in San Francisco. He was 72. His son, Michael, said…