For postmenopausal women, being “pear-shaped” may be healthier than being “apple-shaped.” Even in women with normal body mass index, the location of fat varies. Apple-shaped women have more fat around the waist, pear-shaped more around the hips and legs. Writing in the European Heart Journal, researchers studied 2,683 postmenopausal women with normal B.M.I.s, following them…
Image The designer Ralph Rucci, left, and his team working in the studio of his pattern maker, Nicolas Caito, in New York.CreditJackie Molloy for The New York Times In 2014 Ralph Rucci — the first American to show on the Paris couture schedule under his own name since Mainbocher in the 1930s, recipient of a…
One global study that investigated the role of iron in a variety of health conditions has found that excess iron may lead to a higher risk of bacterial skin infections. Excessive iron levels may be linked to skin infections such as abscesses. Iron is an essential mineral. All human cells contain some iron, but around…
Researchers have designed a brain aging model to investigate the factors that contribute to cognitive decline, borrowing principles from precision medicine. How can we tackle cognitive decline? Cognitive decline affects a person’s ability to focus, remember, and make decisions. Its severity can range from mild to severe, and it may lead to dementia, in the…
GORI, Georgia — Here are just a few of the fun facts that visitors learn during a guided tour of the Stalin Museum in Gori, the small Georgian town where the former Soviet leader was born. Joseph Stalin was a good singer. He wrote poems. During his reign, 9,000 state enterprises were started. One of…
Katherine Marie Dopulos and Nicholas Michael McCormick were married June 29 in Syracuse. The Rev. Dr. Brian E. Konkol, a Lutheran minister and the dean of Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel, performed the ceremony there. Mrs. McCormick, 28, is a lead analyst in the Syracuse office of Bank of New York Mellon. She graduated from Haverford…
Margaret Elizabeth Thornton and Nathan Bart Reeder were married June 29 at Nesselrod Bed and Breakfast in Radford, Va. The Rev. Rachel Wenner Gardner, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony. The bride, 32, is studying for a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy at the University of Virginia, from which she graduated and also received…
Kelly Ann McCampbell and David John Boyajian were married June 29 at the Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor at Casady School in Oklahoma City. The Rev. John Marlin, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony. The bride, 29, is a senior consultant in New York at Deloitte Consulting, where she works with national security clients.…
Rina Malia Cohen and Eric Jacob Weil are to be married June 30. Rabbi Yale M. Fishman is to officiate at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in West Orange, N.J. The bride, 29, will take her husband’s name. She is an account manager at BluPrint Digital, an advertising company in Los Angeles that specializes in theater.…
Lillian Cunningham and Jim Tankersley were married June 24 at Theodore Roosevelt County Park in Montauk, N.Y. The Rev. Nathan A. Barczi, a Presbyterian minister who is a college friend of the groom, officiated. Ms. Cunningham, 35, is a journalist at The Washington Post, where she has created and hosted several podcasts on American history,…