He and other researchers also said that patients may be missing out on lung-cancer screening because they just don’t know about it. It has not received as much attention as other cancer screenings, like mammograms, colonoscopies and Pap tests. Some doctors may not encourage it as strongly, and especially with former smokers, may not take…
Turning Bitter Fruit Sweet A blue dawn as I think about how life will proceed without 80-year-old me. How to make those dim vapors disperse? Eggs, coffee, a thin slice of toast and — dare I open a jar of my homemade marmalade? With the inordinate work to make the jam — slicing countless sour…
Being treated by family members as irrelevant — the attachment trauma, or being a witness to ongoing patterns of abuse — creates another kind of psychological pattern. People’s identity is formed around questions like “What did I do wrong?” or “What could I have done differently?” That becomes the central preoccupation of their lives. The…
“Yes,” Meghan said, “this was very, very clear.” Later, we learned just how clear it was. She recalled what she told her husband: “It was like, these are the thoughts that I’m having in the middle of the night that are very clear, and I’m scared, because this is very real. This isn’t some abstract…
Headliner Kuxé In redoing one of his Toloache locations, the chef and restaurateur Julian Medina and his business partner, Louis Skibar, have given culinary voice to their staff. The menu features a snapshot of home cooking from about 10 cooks, many from the Puebla, Mexico, area, with dishes like tacos de birria, tostadas, various moles,…
Fred Marcus, who was a longtime wedding photographer in New York, often said: “When the wedding is over the photographs will last forever. So will the relationships we made at that event.” Decades later both statements still ring true. In January, the Fred Marcus Studio celebrated 80 years in business. The studio, which has always…
The “After” may soon be upon us. With the news that vaccinated people can start hugging and gathering indoors again, the promise of enough vaccine supplies for every American adult in May, and with some of the hardest-hit countries now well into vaccine distribution, things are starting to look up. And while our definitions of…
Proponents of remote audits say they can do the same thing virtually. Peter Miller, president of Dynamic Compliance Solutions, of New Jersey, which helps life science companies comply with F.D.A. regulations, says his remote audit kit can do a great inspection. The kit features a tiny 360-degree camera, which an on-site host carries on a…
The fantasy repeats. I am in a crowd, nodding but only half listening to the conversation. The liquid in my glass has warmed to an unappealing temperature. My feet hurt from impractical shoes — maybe heels, maybe some kind of heavy, embellished boot. I wave across the room at an acquaintance, and my stacks of…
In the hustle to score an elusive vaccine appointment, the leftover dose has become the stuff of pandemic lore. Extra shots — which must be used within hours once taken out of cold storage — have been doled out to drugstore customers buying midnight snacks, people who are friends with nurses and those who show…