During the course of their four-year relationship, Dr. Alexis Catherine Gomez and Dr. Taylor Francis Baumann have been new friends and best friends and then boyfriend and girlfriend. Dr. Gomez, 30, who is known as AC, and Dr. Baumann, 29, are both resident physicians in internal medicine and pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in…
In the years leading up to 2019, Lane Harris watched the landscape around her home in Ithaca, N.Y., become overgrown. Weeds crept up the raised bed in the backyard. Woody shrubs bombarded the lilac bush. The fig tree was ailing. Since then, it has become a different picture entirely. The weeds were cleared away, replaced…
In 2012, after Hurricane Sandy devastated much of the Rockaways in Queens, Nicole Russell, a longtime resident of Arverne by the Sea, a community there, began making pizzas out of her home. She did this in part to please her sister, Joan, a pizza lover who had recently learned she had cancer. When Joan declared…
Ms. Hunt’s transition from publicist to D.J. was a slow metamorphosis. She grew up in Chesapeake, Va., and graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English literature and African-American studies in 2003. Just after, she moved to Mexico City to teach. She hoped to become a D.J. there, too. “But I bought…
The stimulus package signed by President Biden on Thursday provides new options for Americans who need health insurance — and new resources to help lower costs for those who are already insured. Few of these changes apply to Americans who get insurance at work or through Medicare. But if you buy your own insurance, have…
While I was at Columbia, Muriel earned a high school equivalency diploma and began applying to college the day I graduated. She went on to become a psychologist, and her years of schooling initiated a ritual that lasted for over a decade. When I drove home from work, I would find her waiting at the…
Three weeks after Jennifer Camilla Berger and Jesse Prestwood-Taylor began dating in summer 2014 they came down with a bout of food poisoning together. (They blame an avocado). “My parents are both doctors,” she said. “I know what to do when I feel sick. Rest, hydrate, ibuprofen.” Her unflappable, kind nature, with the help of…
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – March 12, 2021 – The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is investigating how cats with chronic kidney disease could someday help inform treatment for humans. In humans, treatment for chronic kidney disease — a condition in which the kidneys are damaged and cannot filter blood as well as they should —…
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2021 — Journalists who register for the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will have access to nearly 9,000 presentations on topics including agriculture and food, chemistry and the future of plastics, COVID-19 lessons learned, health and medicine, renewable energy and fuels, sustainability and more. ACS Spring 2021 will be…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – As research into genetic causes of disease began to grow, Le Bonheur Pediatrician-in- Chief Jon McCullers, MD, knew it was time to start building a pediatric DNA biorepository. So in 2015, Le Bonheur’s Children’s Foundation Research Institute (CFRI) created the Biorepository and Integrative Genomics (BIG) Initiative and began collecting DNA samples from…