As more states open up and people return to work, companies are looking for guidance on how to keep workers safe from infection. Some experts suggest looking to what may seem an unlikely model: the adult film industry. It survived a different pandemic — an outbreak of H.I.V. infections in the late 1990s that almost…
It’s a question that has haunted scientists since the pandemic began: Does everyone infected with the virus produce antibodies — and if so, how long do they last? Not very long, suggests a new study published Thursday in Nature Medicine. Antibodies — protective proteins made in response to an infection — may last only two…
WASHINGTON — Pregnant women exposed to high temperatures or air pollution are more likely to have children who are premature, underweight or stillborn, and African-American mothers and babies are harmed at a much higher rate than the population at large, according to sweeping new research examining more than 32 million births in the United States.…
This article is part of our latest Pride special report, featuring L.G.B.T.Q. voices on the challenges and possibilities of these troubled times. Alexander Chee is the author of “How to Write an Autobiographical Novel” and “Queen of the Night.” The first weekend of the coronavirus shutdown in March, my husband, Dustin, and I made calls…
Big dogs, older dogs, dogs with flat faces and certain breeds are all at higher risk of illness or death in hot weather. Using veterinary hospital records of dogs under care in 2016, British researchers found 395 cases of heat-related illness. More than 40 percent of them happened in July, during the European heat wave…
In 1993, after wrapping up her 10th sleepaway summer at Camp Louise, in Maryland, Dr. Megan Wollman-Rosenwald realized that she didn’t want the experience to end. So she found a way to game the system: She went to medical school, then returned in 2016 to her childhood mainstay as an on-site doctor for one week…
Around the world, millions of domestic workers were abruptly sent away when coronavirus shutdowns and social distancing orders were imposed. Now as communities begin to reopen, many people are wondering when it will be safe to open their houses again to domestic helpers. If you are an employer worried about the health risks of letting…
Unbeknown to most patients, their race is incorporated into numerous medical decision-making tools and formulas that doctors consult to decide treatment for a range of conditions and services, including heart disease, cancer and maternity care, according to a new paper published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The unintended result, the paper concludes,…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageA National Health Service ad in Birmingham, England, this month.Credit…Mike Kemp/in PIctures, via Getty Images Oversold and underperforming: How Britain’s new contact-tracing system went wrong. When Britain unveiled an ambitious new contact-tracing system to help pinpoint clusters of infections as they emerge, Prime Minister Boris Johnson described it as…
ImageBoxing up toffee at the Enstrom Candies factory in Grand Junction, Colo. As workplaces reopen, some employees must choose between returning to work before they feel safe doing so, or forfeiting their job, and with it health insurance.Credit…Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times Last month, Patti Hanks faced a wrenching decision: go back to…