How to Ease Neck and Back Pain From Travel
Backache after a long car ride? Sore neck from trying to sleep on a plane? Try these tips before the next time you head out of town.
First Polio Case in Nearly a Decade Is Detected in New York State
A case of polio has been identified in an unvaccinated adult man in Rockland County, officials said. The New York State Department of Health and its Rockland County counterpart confirmed that the infection was transmitted from someone who received the oral polio vaccine, which has not been administered in the United States since 2000. Officials…
Deep in a Covid Wave, Europe Counts Cases and Carries On
ROME — Customers in the Rome bookstore paid no attention to the circular stickers on the floor instructing them to stamp out Covid by maintaining “a distance of at least 1 meter.” “These are things from the past,” said Silvia Giuliano, 45, who wore no mask as she browsed paperbacks. She described the red signs,…
Weekly Health Quiz: Parechovirus, Childhood Immunization and Dental Health
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
‘Best Foot Forward’ Is a Story About, and By, People With Disabilities
Casting the right actor for a role often means finding someone who matches the character description in a script, but Josh Sundquist didn’t know if that was possible for his series “Best Foot Forward.” “It sounds silly in retrospect, but this was four years ago,” Sundquist recalled recently. “At the time, it simply didn’t occur…
Why Biden’s Second Booster Wasn’t Enough to Prevent Infection
President Biden’s coronavirus infection is a stark illustration that the Covid vaccines, powerful as they are, are far from the bulletproof shields that scientists once hoped for. Mr. Biden has received multiple doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine; his most recent shot, a second booster, was on March 30. Studies suggest that those doses will provide…
Covid’s Risks Are Concentrated Among Americans of Biden’s Age
President Biden is 79, and Americans his age and older have made up larger and larger shares of those dying from Covid in recent months. The virus has taken advantage of falling immunity caused by the time elapsed since many older people’s last vaccinations, and the Omicron variant has evolved a growing ability to skirt…
When ‘New Art’ Made New York the Culture Capital
When I was a kid in the early 1960s, my Eisenhower-Republican physician-father always had the latest copies of his favored subscription publications on his home office desk: Time, Life, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Mad magazine. To me, Time and Life pegged him an engaged citizen; JAMA, as a conscientious professional. But…
Welcome to Chicago, Hot Dog Town, U.S.A.
CHICAGO — Before leaving the city for graduate school, Heidi Ratanavanich got a shoulder tattoo of a Chicago-style hot dog. Painterly and bright, the tattoo depicts a poppy-seed bun cradling a shiny frankfurter, which is topped with a squiggle of yellow mustard, neon-green sweet pickle relish, chopped white onion, two tomato slices, a pickle spear,…
Eggplant Five Ways
“No other vegetable is so content to abandon itself to your will,” Ruth Reichl wrote of eggplant in her 2015 cookbook, “My Kitchen Year.” Though if you’re skeptical, here’s one way to quickly gain some confidence: Start with her simple eggplant salad, which I’ve made so many times since first reading about it I’ve lost…