Anxiety is a strange beast. As a psychiatrist, I have learned that anxiety and its close cousin, panic, are both born from fear. As a behavioral neuroscientist, I know that fear’s main evolutionary function is helping us survive. In fact, fear is the oldest survival mechanism we have. Fear helps us learn to avoid dangerous…
SEATTLE — On an overcast day in Seattle, a few dozen medical staff members, students and emergency workers with symptoms of the fast-spreading coronavirus spent their lunch break driving to a parking garage. The UW Medicine’s Medical Center Northwest has turned part of the first floor of their four-story parking garage into a mobile testing…
As people self-quarantine, work from home and generally wall themselves off from the outside world, Joe DeSimone is preparing to travel the globe. In the last few weeks, the 30-year-old game design instructor from Austin, Texas, has booked two flights — to London and Toronto — and has getaways to Nashville and Los Angeles in…
Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was in the hot seat — again. It was his third time testifying before a congressional committee in three days, and Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz was demanding to know who in the government was responsible for making sure Americans with coronavirus…
Hello, friends of Five Weeknight Dishes. During these strange days, are you spending more time than usual in the kitchen? I certainly am, what with all the canceled events, plus the added job of getting food on the table — not just at dinner! — for those of us sticking close to home. Fortunately NYT…
[Sign up here to receive Love Letter, a weekly newsletter about relationship highs, lows and woes, in your inbox every Friday.] Netflix’s reality romance show “Love Is Blind” is one of the very few examples of reality TV actually getting it right. We all rooted for Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton as we watched them…
With the spread of the coronavirus comes another ailment: anxiety about every single symptom. Is your nose feeling itchy because you’re trying not to touch your face, because you picked up the flu — or is it, just maybe, the coronavirus? As spring nears, allergies may be triggering symptoms that can make it difficult to…
The three giant drug distributors are negotiating a deal with the states to end thousands of opioid lawsuits nationwide, in which they would pay $19.2 billion over 18 years and immediately submit to stringent monitoring requirements to assure that suspicious orders for prescription opioids would be halted. But although pressure is building to settle the…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration moved on Friday to drastically speed up coronavirus testing, approving a commercial test that will allow many labs around the country to begin processing as many as 4,000 samples a day, and introducing an emergency hotline for laboratories. The administration also announced new partnerships with companies developing tests that can…
Here’s what you need to know: ImagePresident Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times The Trump administration announces steps to speed up testing. The Trump administration moved on Friday to dramatically speed up coronavirus screening, introducing an emergency hotline for private laboratories and new partnerships with companies developing tests that can…