An ingrown hair near the vagina develops when the tip of a pubic hair folds back into the skin at the root. This can cause a painful pink or red bump to appear. The bump may be hard or soft and pus-filled. It can also become itchy, inflamed, or infected. Although some ingrown hairs can…
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PARIS — Under the twinkling lights of the Eiffel Tower at dusk, below a row of 10 towering white palm trees reflected in the black mirror of an infinity pool, in front of rows of gawking onlookers gathered on the steps up to the Trocadero, the first model of the Saint Laurent show appeared —…
DetailsA genetic study of nearly half a million people concludes that height is «not just a correlated factor, but an underlying mechanism leading to varicose veins.» Women are at a higher risk of varicose veins, but new research suggests that height is also a factor. Varicose veins — also known as spider veins — are…
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Certain clichés, some more tenacious than others, define generations of Indian restaurants in the United States. It’s a font, the type stylized with curly, pointy-ended serifs. It’s a basket of cold, black-edged papad dressed up as bread service. Usually, though, it’s a menu of naan and curry, pleasing in its soft, warm vagueness. And so…
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Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In 1876, Hambletonian died, and he made the front page of The New York Times. Hambletonian was a horse: “the most celebrated sire of trotting horses in America,” as The Times put it. A father to 1,500,…
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Stage 3 breast cancer refers to cancer in the breast that has spread to several nearby lymph nodes. Doctors also describe breast cancer as stage 3 if a tumor is larger than 5 centimeters and cancer has spread to any lymph nodes, but not to distant organs. At stage 3, breast cancer may also spread…
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It was January 2017 when Denthew Learey asked his parents to meet for dinner at Hacienda Restaurant in Highland Falls, N.Y. He suspected his parents knew what he wanted to discuss. At 20 years old, he was “at that age,” as he put it, and he didn’t typically have serious conversations with them, but this…
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Among the general population it is only becoming recently known that women struggle to be diagnosed correctly and are often not believed when they have a health problem. Among women themselves, many are already aware that they are not given appropriate treatment or are not taken seriously when they go to the hospital or to…
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By Chris Wohlwend Sept. 26, 2018 As a sellout crowd jostled its way into the first big show of the 34th annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering on a late-January night in Elko, Nev., old friends backslapped each other and laughed about past gatherings. It was a rowdy, good-natured opening of what has become the premier…
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OTTAWA — For the seasonal salad at the popular Oz Kafe here, the shavings of Gouda cheese are a salty and delicious culinary accompaniment. To the United States, they are an element of an increasingly bitter trade dispute over dairy products, one that threatens to undermine its decades-long agreement with Canada. Canada’s longstanding policy of…
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