Surgeons in New York have successfully attached a kidney grown in a genetically altered pig to a human patient and found that the organ worked normally, a scientific breakthrough that one day may yield a vast new supply of organs for severely ill patients. Although many questions remain to be answered about the long-term consequences…
For David L. Culp, the walk is a daily practice, not for its exercise value, but in pursuit of insight. The familiar route he has taken most days, over some 30 growing seasons, is around his two-acre garden in Downingtown, Pa., along the paths he created. He walks the sloping site in search of ideas…
“Men love shortcuts, they like noninvasive, minimal downtime devices that they don’t consider cosmetic but more like upkeep,” said Dr. Frank, who has also seen an increase in male clientele. “Ten years ago these machines didn’t exist, now they do.” Dr. Arash Moradzadeh, a plastic surgeon in private practice in Beverly Hills, Calif., suggests truSculpt…
When Jim Lewis was told earlier this month that his 90-year-old mother, who lives in a nursing home outside of Boise, Idaho, tested positive for Covid-19, he wondered if she had gotten the virus from an unvaccinated employee. And he had reason to worry. A little more than half of the workers in the home,…
I don’t have a first oyster memory. It has been crowded out by so many others, vivid and indelible, that followed. There was a fried-oyster po’ boy that I once asked a cabdriver to make a detour for on the way to the airport. I had him stop and wait for me outside Domilise’s in…
WASHINGTON — The campaign to vaccinate young children in the United States against the coronavirus will not look like it did for adults. There will be no mass inoculation sites. Pediatricians will be enlisted to help work with parents. Even the vials — and the needles to administer doses — will be smaller. Biden administration…
Ms. Lembersky has also had luck with Italian-language resources like Salute Lazio, which has a map of pharmacies that conduct virus tests in the region of Lazio, as well as MedInAction, where users can book testing “house calls” throughout Milan and Rome. Meanwhile, the travel medicine company AmbiMed maps out — and allows users to…
Frazer HarrisonGetty Images After last year’s Women in Hollywood event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we knew we’d have to pull out all the stops to make 2021’s event even more special. This year, guests descended upon the Dolby Family Terrace at the new Academy Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles to…
The New York City Board of Health declared racism a public health crisis on Monday, passing a resolution that directed the Health Department to take steps to ensure a “racially just recovery” from the coronavirus pandemic. The resolution called on the department to work with other agencies to root out systemic racism within policies, plans…
The New York City Board of Health declared racism a public health crisis on Monday, passing a resolution that directed the Health Department to take steps to ensure a “racially just recovery” from the coronavirus pandemic. The resolution called on the department to work with other agencies to root out systemic racism within policies, plans…