When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that would punish California doctors for spreading false information about Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, he pledged that it would apply only in the most “egregious instances” of misleading patients. It may never have the chance. Even before the law, the nation’s first of its kind, takes…
Years before, the patient had fallen in the bathtub, broken his ribs and punctured a lung. Blood filled his chest and collapsed the lung. He had to be rushed to the hospital. Patients who are stuck in bed while in the hospital are at risk of developing blood clots in the veins of their legs…
About 30 minutes into “Stutz,” a new Netflix documentary from Jonah Hill, the movie’s slick veneer cracks open to expose a deeper artifice. We see Hill and his therapist, the 70-something Phil Stutz, shot in crisp black and white, sitting side by side in what appears to be Stutz’s Los Angeles office. Hill has long…
Acting to address “a crisis we see all around us” toward the end of a year that has seen a string of high-profile crimes involving homeless people, Mayor Eric Adams announced a major push on Tuesday to remove people with severe, untreated mental illness from the city’s streets and subways. Mr. Adams, who has made…
Dr. Thambisetty said the two deaths add to questions about lecanemab’s safety issues “in real world clinical practice where patients are likely to be sicker and have multiple other medical conditions in contrast to carefully selected patients in clinical trials.” Nonetheless, the data on lecanemab, which Dr. Gandy noted attacks a different form of amyloid…
Emerging as the Senate’s leading staff expert on tobacco control legislation, Mr. Pertschuk was recruited by Senator Warren G. Magnuson, the Oregon Democrat who was chairman of the Commerce Committee. Mr. Pertschuk served as a counsel to the committee from 1964 to 1968 and as chief counsel and staff director from 1968 to 1977, when…
If you ever see me on the streets of New York City, there’s a chance I will be wearing one of my favorite T-shirts: It’s from Roberta’s in Brooklyn, and it has the restaurant’s name in the style of a death-metal band emblazoned over a skull, a sword and, of course, a pizza. I treasure…
Headliner Torrisi Bar & Restaurant Unlike his partners in Major Food Group, Mario Carbone and Jeff Zalaznick, Rich Torrisi is not moving to Miami, the current focus of this now-global restaurant company. “I’m happy to be doing what we started to do,” Mr. Torrisi said, referring to Torrisi Italian Specialties, his homage to Italian American fare…
For the past year or so, all the restaurant obsessives I know have been particularly obsessed with figuring out what post-pandemic diners want. Convenience or ceremony? No-contact ordering or tableside trolleys? Service charges to fund higher wages or smaller portions to allow lower prices? Nobody agrees. For all the predictions floating around, I don’t know…
Hoping for More I worked three teaching jobs and slept in our apartment’s unheated kitchen to give my teenage children the bedrooms. I had scant time for food shopping, insufficient time to sleep, zero time for anything else. We subsisted on rice, beans, pasta, tuna, peanut butter. It seemed absurd to hope for more —…