Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria in NoHo has a new executive chef, Preston Madson, who was at Barbuto and Freeman’s. And he has taken a new approach to focaccia. Working with Marco Riggi — a purveyor of some ancient strains of triticum wheat in Caltanissetta, Sicily — the restaurant is importing stone-ground organic timilia flour,…
“I saw you.” I swallowed hard and looked up at my therapist. I began a rapid mental inventory of where I’d been in the week since our last meeting. Had I done anything incriminating? I finally licked my dry lips and asked, “Where?” “At spin class,” she said, calmly. Spinning was something that she had…
When Bianca Garcia and Alaia Kleiner, two twenty-somethings living in Chicago, went to a friend’s birthday party a few months ago, they were greeted by a line of about 15 women clamoring for one thing: tooth gems. “People were having, like, their entire mouth covered,” Ms. Garcia said. Tooth gems are exactly what they sound…
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Kaiser Permanente, the California-based health system that is preparing to open one of the few American medical schools not connected to a university, was set to announce Tuesday that it would waive tuition for every student in its first five graduating classes. Kaiser Permanente, which has its own hospitals, clinics, doctors and insurance plan, is…
IMAGE: This is Georgia Tech and Coulter Department researcher Gabe Kwong (r.) next to a liquid nitrogen storage vat in his lab. view more Credit: Georgia Tech / Allison Carter Too often, it’s only after a transplanted organ has sustained serious damage that a biopsy reveals the organ is in rejection. A new screening method using…
“The good news is that, since the Millennium, there have been reductions in blood pressure and cholesterol levels and in rates of smoking across adults in the United States. However, these rates leave much room for improvement, and the average BMI has gone up, with the greatest rise for women,” said Dr Sanne Peters, Research…
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Healthy white blood cells, called “T-cells,” play a crucial role in how the body fights follicular lymphoma. That’s according to the results of a study led by Mayo Clinic hematologists Zhi Zhang Yang, M.D., and Stephen Ansell, M.D., Ph.D., that was published in Cell Reports. T-cells are a key part of the…
Washington, DC – February 19, 2019 – Infections with a Human Papillomavirus (HPV) cause 99 percent of cervical cancer cases, and the disease’s first sign is often the appearance of precancerous lesions on a woman’s cervix. But bacteria may play an important role, too. New research suggests that the cervical microbiome may influence HPV infection…
Ten states and the District of Columbia now allow the sale, possession, and use of marijuana for recreational purposes, and 33 states and the District of Columbia allow medical marijuana. Critics argue that marijuana dispensaries are magnets for crime. A new study found an association between marijuana dispensaries and increases in rates of crime and…