He broke up with you and left. How to live now? How to be happy? What will happen to you? Sadness, despair, loneliness, questions, and hopes. What if we get together?! If he sees me more often, he will come back to me! It is much easier to get over a breakup if you do…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageAn empty Covid-19 testing site next to W.V.U.’s Coliseum in July. The university said it was moving all undergraduate courses online through Sept. 25 following reports of parties held over the Labor Day weekend.Credit…Kristian Thacker for The New York Times For reopened U.S. universities, parties and pushback are upending…
Claire Ko and Eugene Kwak didn’t want a woodland cabin or beach house as their weekend getaway from Manhattan. They dreamed of living on a working farm. Never mind that neither had any experience farming. After years of shopping at the Union Square Greenmarket, they had become increasingly curious about where their food came from.…
CAPRI, Italy — On a sweltering Monday morning in August, half an hour before a ferry to Capri was scheduled to depart from a harbor in Naples, dozens of sweating people crowded on the dock, their face masks in various states of ineffectiveness. The ferry ride to Capri, an island off the coast of southern…
ImageMany coronavirus testing sites do not screen children. One that does, outside Chief Sealth High School in Seattle, swabbed 1-year-old Quentin Brown late last month. Credit…Elaine Thompson/Associated Press When Audrey Blute’s almost 2-year-old son, George, had a runny nose in July, she wanted to do what she felt was responsible: get him tested for coronavirus. It…
It has been a prolonged period of retail carnage: storied names declaring bankruptcy, mass market brands closing thousands of stores, tens of thousands of shop employees furloughed or laid off, garment workers in dire straits. More ominous still are the predictions that we will never shop the same way again. For Jamie Salter and David…
Covid-19 patients who are 80 or older are hundreds of times more likely to die than those under 40. That’s partly because they are more likely to have underlying conditions — like diabetes and lung disease — that seem to make the body more vulnerable to Covid-19. But some scientists suggest another likely, if underappreciated,…
Philadelphia, September 8, 2020 – Early findings from researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) show that convalescent plasma appears to be a safe and possibly effective treatment for children with life-threatening cases of COVID-19. The results were published online Friday by the journal Pediatric Blood and Cancer. To date, no therapies have been proven…
LA JOLLA, CA–Cutting calories significantly may not be an easy task for most, but it’s tied to a host of health benefits ranging from longer lifespan to a much lower chance of developing cancer, heart disease, diabetes and neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s. A new study from teams led by Scripps Research Professors Bruno Conti,…
Widespread use of contraceptives and, to a lesser extent, girls’ education through at least age 14 have the greatest impact in bringing down a country’s fertility rate. Education and family planning have long been tied to lower fertility trends. But new research from the University of Washington analyzes those factors to determine, what accelerates a…