The 46-year-old man showed up at hospital emergency room in Chicago, complaining that his left knee hurt. The X-rays above showed why. Fourteen years earlier, he’d been shot in the knee. That’s the image on the left. The bullet was not removed, and over the years his knee had ground it into tiny pieces, as…
E-cigarette maker Juul, which has vowed to make cigarettes obsolete, is near to inking a deal to become business partners with Altria, one of the world’s largest tobacco companies. The union — which would create an alliance between one of public health’s greatest villains and the start-up that would upend it — entails cigarette giant…
It happens that in a relationship one of the partners is emotionally dependent, and the other partner is emotionally distracted. The first one complains about the lack of time to be spent with the partner, whereas the other person feels the need for personal space. It is interesting that both aspects of this system have…
This article was reported and written in collaboration with ProPublica, the nonprofit journalism organization. Dr. José Baselga, the former chief medical officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, resigned under pressure on Wednesday as one of the editors-in-chief of Cancer Discovery, a prominent scientific journal, after he failed to accurately disclose his conflicts of interest…
“This is my first interview in nearly 10 years,” David Lee Roth said one recent morning. The Van Halen frontman’s trademark mane has been shorn to a bleach-blond crop, but neither time nor the long interval between interviews has mellowed Mr. Roth much. He shoulder-shimmied in the middle of Harry Cipriani and, in short order,…
IN: Craftwork As the temperature heats up, expect to see more artisanal craft details, experts say. “But on very minimalist silhouettes like at Loewe, JW Anderson, Victoria Beckham, and Jacquemus,” says Tiffany Hsu, Mytheresa Fashion Buying Director. Barneys New York Fashion Director, Marina Larroude agrees: “Nothing screams summer more than crochet and macramé. From Missoni…
A bowel obstruction is a blockage in the small or the large intestine. It is a potentially dangerous condition and has several causes. Someone with a full obstruction will find passing a stool or gas difficult, if not impossible. A partial obstruction can cause diarrhea. Obstructions cause a buildup of food, gastric acids, gas, and…
In the 1800s, thousands of Aboriginal Australians were the victims of a terrible trade in the name of science. Anatomists opened their graves and stole their skeletons. After massacres of Aboriginal Australians, police officers sold body parts to museums. Today, many of these bones lie far from home. “Our old people’s remains have been stolen…
Image Children who live with cats and dogs when they are infants are less likely to develop allergies later in childhood — and the more pets they have, the better, a Swedish study of 1,278 children has found. Researchers interviewed the parents of 249 of the children when they were 6 to 12 months old,…
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” the beloved American story about a middle-aged white man as a civil-rights hero, opened on Broadway last Thursday night and the nation’s celebrities came to pay homage. Among the dozens of eminences filling the Shubert Theater were Oprah Winfrey, Jessica Chastain, Huma Abedin, Tina Fey, former Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Jessica…