It was a small trial, just 18 rectal cancer patients, every one of whom took the same drug. But the results were astonishing. The cancer vanished in every single patient, undetectable by physical exam, endoscopy, PET scans or M.R.I. scans. Dr. Luis A. Diaz Jr. of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, an author of a…
Older adults typically carry less debt than younger ones because people tend to shed debt as they approach and enter retirement. But in recent decades, each cohort of seniors has been more indebted than the previous one. “There’s a group of older people in financial distress,” said Annamaria Lusardi, an economist at the George Washington…
Pride month got off to a fashionable start on Wednesday, when Coach hosted a rainbow-hued party at the Monster, a venerable gay bar across the street from the Stonewall Inn. Saucy Santana performed before a youthful crowd that included Bowen Yang, Joel Kim Booster and Tommy Dorfman. Also that night, the Guggenheim held a party…
On the January evening when the superintendent introduced staff from Generations Family Health Center, the nonprofit health care group that was to provide services in the school, the visitors peered out of Zoom screens with cheery smiles. The plan was for licensed therapists from Generations to work in a space on the school’s third floor.…
Kelsey O’Hagan first heard about the Gerber Photo Search from a nurse at a doctor’s appointment for her now-12-month-old son, Everett. “She said, ‘Oh my god, you have to submit him, he’s so cute, he’s got such a good personality, and you could win $25,000,’” said Ms. O’Hagan, a 30-year-old stay-at-home mother from Methuen, Mass.…