OAKLAND, Calif. — On March 5, 2020, my family attended our sixth grader’s school music performance, then went straight to dinner and a concert at Yoshi’s, a local jazz club, to celebrate my husband’s birthday. We didn’t know at the time it would be our last family outing for more than a year. The following…
A group of nearly 60 major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association, called on Monday for mandatory vaccination of health care workers. As the highly contagious Delta variant drives a new surge of coronavirus cases, vaccination is an ethical obligation for health care workers, the groups said in a…
The game of first lady fashion is one played 12 months a year, at pretty much any time, watched by a global mass of avid spectators who care for reasons national, personal and political. Participants are drafted as soon as they get their jobs, whether they like it or not. Jill Biden has famously been…
Perhaps this week is the one where I can — and perhaps you can — get out of a breakfast rut (yogurt and strawberry jam, in my case), and discover something new for the first meal of the day: breakfast udon, say; or everyday pancakes; or breakfast bars with oats and coconut. There are thousands…
The sultry days are in full swing, and this means that it is time to analyze the condition of your makeup bag as thoroughly as possible. The main task is to get rid of or put aside those products that are not suitable for use on hot days. Oily and full coverage foundations, silicone bases…
My horse was ready to bolt — his ears pricked, his muscles tense. A few feet ahead, a herd of wild horses stared back at us; they’d been unaware of us for most of our ascent from the valley below. Horned lizards shuffled in the sagebrush beneath us, but my horse’s gaze remained locked on…
If you’re mixing cocktails for friends and don’t want to keep going to the freezer for ice, an ice bucket is essential. “I tend to use them for entertaining,” said Julie Reiner, a founder of Social Hour Cocktails and an owner of the bars Clover Club and Leyenda, in Brooklyn. “I use one when I’m…
Longer term, most patients with A-fib can be effectively and safely treated with medication, usually drugs called beta blockers and calcium blockers that help the heart sustain a normal rhythm. Patients are also given an anticoagulant to prevent blood clots. Several currently popular anticoagulants, including Xarelto (rivaroxaban), which Mr. Hallick takes, have persistent anti-clotting effects…