Andrew Campbell almost passed up the chance to be married for free on Feb. 12 in Atlanta. “I’m from the South, and my mom has always been all about decorum,” he said. He saw a flier advertising free weddings, posted at the Fulton County Courthouse where he and his fiancé, Alejandro Arriaga Ariza, went to…
On Feb. 14, Ms. Smith and Mr. Aspiazu returned to the park to marry. Ms. Smith, in a backless yellow chiffon gown under a winter white wrap, was escorted down a park walkway by Rahul; Mr. Aspiazu, wearing a dark suit with a yellow tie, awaited them with Mr. Jean-Louis, their officiant. Ms. Salvin, Ms.…
For Michelle Kayati and Lacy Hawkins, a low-key wedding was the plan all along. “This is not our first rodeo,” Ms. Kayati said, meaning that she and Mr. Hawkins were each previously married. Forgoing pageantry is one thing; slipping into a wedding dress you inexpertly stitched together yourself and finding your fiancé frantically chopping wood…
A close friend of Nicholas Rowe’s once told him, “You’re going to fall in love with the girl who shuts you up.” Chalk one up for that friend. “Everyone thinks I’m funny, but Jess has a lot of sass, and getting her to laugh was very much a challenge,” Mr. Rowe said. In 2016, Mr.…
A week before Nicole Saracino had surgery on her right ankle in May 2017, she logged onto her dating profile and clicked Stephen Hayman into her life. “He was a real gentleman, very polite and very caring,” said Ms. Saracino, 30, who works in the northern part of Queens in New York as a pharmacy…
China is requiring some travelers arriving from overseas to receive an invasive anal swab test as part of its coronavirus containment measures, a move that has outraged and shocked several foreign governments. Japanese officials said on Monday that they had formally asked China to exempt Japanese citizens from the test, adding that some who had…
[Sign up for Love Letter, our weekly email about Modern Love, weddings and relationships.] In the first stage, denial, I refused to accept that my parents’ divorce was happening. I would drag my feet along with my mother or father to open houses and real estate agents’ offices. With a book or granola bar in…
A new review of existing evidence proposes eight hallmarks of environmental exposures that chart the biological pathways through which pollutants contribute to disease: oxidative stress and inflammation, genomic alterations and mutations, epigenetic alterations, mitochondrial dysfunction, endocrine disruption, altered intercellular communication, altered microbiome communities, and impaired nervous system function. The study by researchers at Columbia University…
Patients’ electronic health records convey crucial information. The application of natural language processing techniques to these records may be an effective means of extracting information that may improve clinical decision making, clinical documentation and billing, disease prediction and the detection of adverse drug reactions. Adverse drug reactions are a major health problem, resulting in hospital…
PHILADELPHIA – Intellectual disability puts individuals at higher risk of dying earlier in life than the general population, for a variety of medical and institutional reasons. A new study from Jefferson Health examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected this group, which makes up 1-3% of the US population. The study, published today in the…