Doxycycline: What to Know About the ‘Morning-After’ Pill for STIs
Doxycycline can help prevent sexually transmitted infections. Here’s how to use it.
Paper Covid-19 Cards Are Going Away
The paper Covid vaccination cards were, for a time, a mainstay of American wallets — pulled out before bouncers, inspected at airport desks and shared with pride on social media accounts. But the days of the paper cards are over. The Covid-19 cards will “no longer be given out,” Dave Daigle, a spokesman for the…
Dissociation Is Big on TikTok. But What Is It?
Have you ever zoned out? Maybe you have experienced highway hypnosis, with no recollection of having driven from Point A to Point B. Or maybe you have zero memory of something you just read. These are mild forms of dissociation, which is the ability to disconnect from our thoughts, feelings, environment or actions. Dissociation can…
What Is Fentanyl? Some Key Facts About the Drug
Fentanyl has become a leading cause of death in the United States, an issue on the presidential campaign trail and the subject of major diplomatic efforts by the Biden administration. As Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and other top administration officials traveled to Mexico this week, in part to discuss strategies to stop the…
The Wegovy Shortage Drags On, Leaving Patients in Limbo
When Mark Basa needed his next dose of Wegovy, he worked his way down a list of 10 CVS stores within a 25-mile radius of his Peekskill, N.Y., home — and struck out at every one. In the 10 weeks he couldn’t find the drug, he regained the eight pounds he had lost on the…
Workers Exposed to Extreme Heat Have Few Protections
Anthony Soto, a 22-year-old baggage claim employee at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, crumpled to the floor near gate C15 after a seizure last October that he attributed to hot indoor conditions and strenuous lifting. In record-setting heat in Texas this past summer, Mr. Soto, who has epilepsy, had four more seizures that left…
Gun Deaths Rising Sharply Among Children, Study Finds
Julvonnia McDowell was making dinner one evening when she got a call saying that her 14-year-old son, JuJuan — a gentle boy who loved animals, who was so generous that he gave a pair of shoes to a classmate who was being teased — had been shot. He was visiting a relative’s home when another…
Food Industry Influence Could Cloud the U.S. Dietary Guidelines, a New Report Says
It is a long-running concern of government watchdogs: Some of the experts responsible for helping to craft the U.S. dietary guidelines also take money from big food and drug companies. A report published Wednesday by the nonprofit U.S. Right to Know makes those concerns plain. Nine of the 20 experts on the 2025 Dietary Guidelines…
Can Nasal Sprays Protect You From Covid? Some Experts are Skeptical.
Formulas are being touted online as an extra safeguard against the virus, but they’re not F.D.A. approved and some experts are skeptical.
How the Kaiser Permanente Strike Could Affect Patients
Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers, including pharmacists, lab technicians, therapists and housekeepers, went on strike Wednesday morning. Kaiser patients in California, Colorado, Oregon, Virginia and Washington State, where Kaiser health care workers are walking out, will be affected. Kaiser, whose health plans cover nearly 13 million people through a network of hospitals and…