House lawmakers hammered Dr. Robert Califf, the head of the Food and Drug Administration, during a budget hearing on Thursday over the agency’s handling of the infant formula shortage exasperating families across the nation. His appearance before a House subcommittee occurred just a day after President Biden invoked the Defense Production Act and authorized the…
In the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, bottlenose dolphins barrel through a soft, bushy coral. Looks like fun, but maybe it’s medicine. Dolphins may rub on specific corals and sponges to treat their skin, researchers reported Thursday in the journal iScience. These stationary sea creatures may serve as drive-by pharmacies, dispensing a chemical…
Several factors are most likely contributing at once. And many of these issues disproportionately impact lower-income families, which may partly explain the racial differences in puberty onset in the United States, the researchers said. A new normal? For decades, medical textbooks have defined the stages of puberty using the so-called Tanner Scale, which was based…
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My girlfriend and I will soon be 30. We’ve been dating for two years, about half of that time exclusively. One night, we were spit-balling about our future. I assumed we’d get married relatively soon. But my girlfriend surprised me: She said she loves me, but she doesn’t think being in a monogamous relationship for…
Now, when Snapchat users search for “fenta,” “xanax” or other drug language, the results are blocked. They are redirected to an in-app video channel with content from nonprofit groups and the C.D.C. that addresses “fentapills” — the dangers of purported OxyContin, Percocet, Xanax and Adderall. According to Facebook’s latest community standards report, it took action…
Scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet on Thursday to debate whether to recommend a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to children ages 5 to 11. The Food and Drug Administration authorized the booster shot for this age group on Tuesday. The C.D.C.’s advisers are also expected to endorse…
Sun, sand, sightings of celebrities in their natural habitats: Tourists have long descended on Los Angeles for some combination of the above. If you’re keen on that cocktail, rest assured, it remains on offer — wrest your way into a coastal hot spot like Nobu Malibu or Giorgio Baldi and you can indulge with abandon.…
Matt WinkelmeyerGetty Images The champagne was flowing in the greenery-filled Ardor at the West Hollywood EDITION on May 18, 2022, when ELLE, Hulu and Polo Ralph Lauren toasted Hollywood’s brightest rising stars. A cocktail hour for the ages, ELLE‘s Hollywood Rising event lured celebrities in from the heat of Sunset Boulevard into an intimate party…
One morning in March, Emma Rogue hopped in the black Nissan Rogue she shares with her brother and pulled out from a parking spot across the street from her Lower East Side vintage shop, Rogue, and set her Waze for the Goodwill in South Hackensack, N.J. She had recently updated the voice on the app…