She has bilateral pneumonia and acute respiratory distress. The doctors explain her inflammation to me as a “cytokine storm” that is ravaging her body. Her decline is steep, only 17 days between diagnosis and death. Looking back at our messages over those 17 days, I am struck by a reversal: I am the one reaching…
She gave an interview to The Daily Show in 2014, claiming vaccines are “full of toxins.” The title of the segment was “An Outbreak of Liberal Idiocy” and compared the progressive anti-vaccination movement to conservative climate-change denialists. “You can line up the doctors from here to down the block refuting me, but I’m not going…
How the reporter Matt Richtel spoke to adolescents and parents for this series In mid-April, I was speaking to the mother of a suicidal teenager whose struggles I’ve been closely following. I asked how her daughter was doing. Not well, the mother said: “If we can’t find something drastic to help this kid, this kid…
Ashley Garza recalls her teenage years in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, when she ate commercial gummy bears in raspas, a shaved-ice dessert, and as dulces enchilados, a Mexican American snack of chamoy- and chile-coated candies. “When I was in high school, people were selling little Ziploc bags of gummy bears with chamoy,” she…
Expectant parents who have lost their baby through miscarriage or stillbirth often have no idea what to say to friends and family members, much less what to do with their grief. How can you help them? What should you say or do? In this guide, we will tell you what you can send a couple…
‘Whole life net zero’ When the brothers and developers Robert and Stuart Godwin set out to build room2 Chiswick, an 86-room hotel in London that opened in December 2021, they knew they wanted to operate on a net-zero emissions basis, but decided to expand on the concept and account for its construction and eventual demolition…
As the kitchen evolved from a work space hidden from guests to the place where everyone wants to congregate, the kitchen island became a must-have for many homeowners. It’s easy to understand why: An island doesn’t just provide an extra work surface and add space for storage and appliances — it creates an area where…
“Frying chicken is a common culprit,” says Bruce D. Bouch, a fire-program specialist at the U.S. Fire Administration. Cooking is the leading cause of residential fires, and burning grease is particularly dangerous. When you see oil smoking in a pan, it’s on the verge of combustion. Animal fats like lard tend to smoke around 370…
The outbreak in Beijing is another blow to the already stumbling Chinese economy. Waves of selling hit the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets on Monday, driving down by 4.9 percent in a single day the CSI 300 Index of large Chinese companies’ share prices. While the entire city of Shanghai has been locked down for…
Visionaries is a limited series that looks at figures who are trying to transform the way we live. Dr. Rachel Hardeman’s journey to understanding community health care began in Cuba, where she studied medicine and public health at the Latin American School of Medicine from 2002 to 2004. “That’s really where I learned not just…