Image At the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade, hours before we broke up. Dogs on Instagram It was a typical New York City love story: We met playing kickball, bonded over jazz and fantasy football and dog runs. We were together for a year, but Astoria is far from the Upper West Side. Weeknights became…
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There’s never a bad season for one of Diane von Furstenberg‘s signature wrap dresses, but with the weather oscillating between summery heat and blustery chill, autumn makes those staples especially essential. Right now, you can save up to 50 percent off of those dresses on the DVF site—plus DVF pencil skirts, sweaters, pants, and more—so…
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Earlier this year Henry, a new restaurant in the lobby of the Life Hotel on West 31st Street, quietly died. You wouldn’t know it to look around the place on any recent night at 8, when a seamless playlist of hip-hop and R&B unspools as servers carry stacked beef ribs to what seems like every…
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Dear Sugars, My husband and I have started trying to conceive a baby, our first. While at a recent family gathering, we got onto the topic of births, and I mentioned that I wanted my husband and my best friend with me during the labor and birth of our future child. After we were home,…
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1 of 40 Diana, visiting Barnados Children’s Charity on November 8, 1984; Kate in a Smythe blazer during her visit to Coach Core in Essex on October 30, 2018. Advertisement — Continue Reading Below 2 of 40 Diana in a Moschino suit while attending Sunday service at Sandringham Church on December 23, 1990; Kate in…
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Human papillomavirus or HPV is the name for a group of viruses transmitted by skin-to-skin contact. HPV can affect fertility in both men and women. It is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI), but people can also acquire it in other ways. According to the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),…
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A century ago, the scientist Karl Pearson was studying cemetery headstones when he noticed something peculiar: Husbands and wives often died within a year of one another. Though not widely appreciated at the time, studies now show that stress and despair can significantly influence health, especially that of the heart. One of the most striking…
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Laparoscopy is a surgical procedure that allows a doctor to see inside the body. When the procedure is part of fertility testing, the doctor is evaluating the structures of the reproductive system, including the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and uterus. Laparoscopy can help a doctor diagnose many conditions that affect fertility, such as: endometriosis blocked fallopian…
DetailsDo bacteria have an unlimited supply of nutrients in the gut? In the past, scientists tended to believe that the gut is a kind of paradise for these microorganisms; but, as it turns out, that assumption is incorrect — which is good news for us. Do our guts starve bacteria? If so, why and how…
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Our columnist, Jada Yuan, is visiting each destination on our 52 Places to Go in 2018 list. This dispatch brings her to two places: Australia’s Top End, which took the No. 12 spot on the list; and Tasmania, which took the No. 33 spot. They are the 42nd and 43rd stops on Jada’s itinerary. On…
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