How to Strengthen Your Bones and Reduce Osteoporosis Risk
A new study predicts hip fractures will nearly double worldwide by 2050. Here’s how to avoid them.
For Queer Couples, Engagement Rings With Subversive Stones
“It has a great granite-like reflection on it, which is bright, but also rugged and rough,” said Mx. Valle, who paid $2,250 for the ring from Kris Averi, a jewelry line in New York. Haley Biemiller, a co-founder of the jewelry line Venvs, which specializes in “atypical” stones including salt-and-pepper diamonds, says another style favored…
FDA Approves ALS Treatment Despite Questions About Effectiveness
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved an experimental treatment for A.L.S., a severe neurological disorder that causes paralysis and death, despite questions about the therapy’s effectiveness. The treatment, conceived about a decade ago by two college students, was approved even though analyses by the F.D.A.’s reviewers concluded there was not yet sufficient evidence…
Selena Gomez Is Obsessed With These UGG Boots and They’re 62% Off on Amazon Now
What can’t Selena Gomez do? The Disney Channel star turned singer, dancer, and actor sells out stadiums on the regular—she even has a cooking show. She happens to be one of our generation’s coolest fashion icons while doing all those fabulous things. And, the fact that she can be stylish in the wintertime has earned…
South Korea Travel Guide: Exploring ‘The Land of Morning Calm’
Before South Korea became globally known for its beauty products, kimchi and pop groups, it was known as the Land of the Morning Calm. The name has long been used to refer to the Korean Peninsula, before the division of South and North Korea, because of its tranquil, temple-dotted mountains and serene forests where dawn…
Dreaming of Spaghetti and (Meatless) Meatballs
I love spaghetti and meatballs — making it, eating it, talking about it. That’s part of why I began obsessing over Anna Francese Gass’s new recipe for ricotta polpette before it was even published. Anna’s polpette are essentially ricotta dumplings, made from nothing more than cheese, bread crumbs and eggs, seasoned with parsley, salt and…
Overlooked No More: Maria Orosa, Inventor of Banana Ketchup
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Bright red, slightly sweet, slightly tangy, a popular Philippine condiment that’s almost like the real thing: It’s banana ketchup. Its creator, Maria Orosa, was an innovative food scientist and Filipino nationalist who…
A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes
Look up an image of a tumor on Google, and you’ll probably end up with a brightly colored cluster of cancer cells on a drab background of healthy tissue. But for Lian Narunsky Haziza, a cancer biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, the picture looks very different. A tumor may also contain…
A Devious Cellular Trick Cancers Can Use to Escape Your Immune System
He looked at human cells from breast cancers, colon cancers and melanomas and saw the same phenomenon. But blood cancers and glioblastomas, the deadly brain cancers, did not form the cell-in-cell structures. Perhaps, Dr. Carmi reasoned, it might be possible to prevent cancer cells from taking refuge. He decided to examine the genes involved in…
Physician Burnout Has Reached Distressing Levels, New Research Finds
Doctors were unevenly affected by the early stages of the pandemic. While emergency physicians and family physicians worked around the clock, constantly exposed to Covid-19, many physicians in other specialties were able to reach their patients through telehealth appointments and spend more time with their families. Combined with a possible optimism that the worst of…