Dr. Theodore Rubin, a psychoanalyst and writer whose short novel “Lisa and David,” about two teenagers finding love at a therapeutic school, was made into an Academy Award-nominated movie, and who became the public face of psychotherapy in postwar American popular culture, died on Saturday in a nursing home in Manhattan. He was 95. His…
Most American teenagers — across demographic groups — see depression and anxiety as major problems among their peers, a new survey by the Pew Research Center found. The survey found that 70 percent of teenagers saw mental health as a big issue. Fewer teenagers cited bullying, drug addiction or gangs as major problems; those from…
Last week, Modern Love and WBUR hosted a Valentine’s Day event at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. The actor William Jackson Harper read Ryan Pfeffer’s essay, “Your Dog Has Seen Me Naked,” in front of a live audience. Listen to Mr. Harper’s reading on this week’s Modern Love podcast. Mr. Pfeffer is the associate…
Karl Lagerfeld stole his famously pampered cat, Choupette, and was not ashamed to say so. “Choupette belonged to a friend of mine who asked if my maid could take care of her for two weeks when he was away,” Mr. Lagerfeld, the designer who died in Paris on Tuesday, told The Cut in 2015. “When…
You (or your employer) pay for health insurance every month. In exchange, you assume that if you have any health-related needs, they’ll be covered. Yet there are gaps in the system that your provider may not want to pay for. Now, a wave of medical start-ups want to fill in those gaps. As Silicon Valley…
“When I heard Mickey sold the ski area,” Dave Hahn, a longtime member of the Taos Ski Valley ski patrol said, “I remember thinking, ‘That’s funny, a lot of us thought we owned it.’ ” He was kidding, of course, but there was a poignancy to Mr. Hahn’s remark. Taos locals and longtime visitors to…
A post-cesarean wound infection can occur when bacteria get into the incision wound. Doctors can treat surgical wound infections with medications and proper wound care. An estimated 3–15 percent of woman develop an infection in their cesarean incision wounds. This article looks at the causes and types of wound infections after a cesarean, risk factors,…
Sleep — that absurd, amazing habit of losing consciousness for hours on end — is so universal across the animal kingdom that we usually assume it is essential to survival. Now, however, scientists who repeatedly disturbed the sleep of more than a thousand fruit flies are reporting that less slumber may be necessary for sustaining…
What’s black, white and striped all over — except for its head? Horses wearing zebra coats on a farm in Britain. The animals weren’t attending a masquerade. They were dressed for studies investigating a mystery that has puzzled scientists for more than a century. With solid coats of brown or gray, “most mammals are pretty…
One of the most exciting moments of pregnancy for many women is feeling the baby move for the first time. Often, it can be difficult for a woman to distinguish these first movements from other sensations, such as indigestion or gas. However, when a woman is certain that she is feeling the fetus move, she…