How to Pick a Word of the Year to Help You Get the Most Out of 2022
To get the most out of 2022, try choosing a word that can help you make thoughtful decisions and nudge you toward positive change.
Former Biden Advisers Urge a Pandemic Strategy for the ‘New Normal’
Now, with the Omicron variant fueling an enormous new surge, they wrote, the United States must avoid becoming stuck in “a perpetual state of emergency.” The first step, they wrote, is recognizing that the coronavirus is one of several respiratory viruses circulating, and developing policies to address all of them together. To be better prepared…
Women’s Periods May Be Late After Coronavirus Vaccination, Study Suggests
Shortly after coronavirus vaccines were rolled out about a year ago, women started reporting erratic menstrual cycles after receiving the shots. Some said their periods were late. Others reported heavier bleeding than usual or painful bleeding. Some postmenopausal women who hadn’t had a period in years even said they had menstruated again. A study published…
Covid Treatments Including Paxlovid Are Rationed as Cases Spike
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, scarce ventilators and protective equipment faced strict rationing. Today, as the pandemic rages into its third year, another precious category of products is coming under tight controls: treatments to stave off severe Covid-19. There is a greater menu of Covid pills and infusions now than at…
Scientists Endorse Covid Boosters, But to a Point
“People that are vaccinated really are doing very well in terms of hospitalization,” said Michel Nussenzweig, an immunologist at Rockefeller University in New York. Omicron has made it clear that preventing all infections is a lost cause, he added. If the vaccines prevented infection and spread of the virus, regular boosters might make sense. “But…
Every Pore on Your Face Is a Walled Garden
Your skin is home to a thousand kinds of bacteria, and the ways they contribute to healthy skin are still largely mysterious. This mystery may be getting even more complex: In a paper published Thursday in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, researchers studying the many varieties of Cutibacterium acnes bacteria on 16 human volunteers…
Portobello, Cremini and Maitake Mushroom Recipes
When I was a vegetarian in high school, I got so sick of badly prepared portobello mushrooms! Watery stuffed portobellos, fibrous grilled portobellos, dry portobello sandwiches, spongy portobello salads. I avoided them for a while, not realizing just how good they could be. The portobello is a plain old brown mushroom, but harvested a little…
That Expensive Bourbon You Bought May Be a Fake
“I saw one collection that was in its entirety fake, and it had all been gathered 20 to 30 years ago,” she said. “There are some really well-known fakes that keep popping up.” Reliable statistics on the size of the problem are hard to come by. Ms. Graham-Yooll dismissed as hyperbolic a 2018 study claiming…
Does My Boyfriend Like Me, or Does He Like That I’m a Twin?
A reader wonders whether a friend’s suggestion might have some truth to it.
That Vintage Dress on the Red Carpet? There’s More to the Story.
The red carpet is a financial exchange — the most high-profile of red carpets, at least. If the E! Network has at least one microphone-wielding staffer on standby, there is serious money on the table. But like many financial exchanges, its transactions are often opaque. Fashion brands pay undisclosed amounts of money for celebrities to…