With No Way to Identify Omicron and Delta Patients, US Doctors Struggle With Treatment Decisions

Most U.S. doctors have no way to determine which variant of the coronavirus a patient is carrying, a distinction that could mean the difference between life and death. High-risk patients carrying the Delta variant could benefit greatly from two particular monoclonal antibody treatments shown to reduce hospitalization and death. But those medications would most likely…

The First of the Year

We adjust. We make last-minute plans. We move on. My husband Tony and I spent New Year’s Day in New Orleans; work aside, we hadn’t traveled beyond New York in nearly two years, and the idea of discovering a different city — one where it was warm enough to eat and drink outside; one that…

The Benefits of Working Out for Strength

*** In the last decade, the women’s fitness industry has started to change, slowly but steadily. As a culture, we still aren’t fully comfortable with women choosing to increase rather than decrease their size. Women’s bodybuilding remains a kind of sideshow sport, due in part to a fundamental lack of understanding of “Why?” Why would…

A Mille Crèpes for Lunar New Year

The newly discovered millipede Eumillepes Persephone actually has more than 1,000 legs. But a mille crèpes cake? Not so many layers. The cake is the signature of Lady M, a confectioner with boutiques in New York and other cities in the United States and China; this year they’re making one covered and layered with red…

No Need for Another Spoon

A new double-sided mixing spoon expands the definition of all-purpose by having a handle that widens into a convenient tasting spoon. Made from a solid piece of sustainable teak, it’s one of a new wardrobe of tools sold by Sur La Table: a cook’s spoon, a larger shallow spoon and a strainer spoon, each $19.…