Weekly Health Quiz: Weight Loss Diets, Mask Care and a Cancer Cure
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Flowers Are in Short Supply Around the World. Here’s How it Happened
The photographs of trashed flowers still haunt florists. In 2020, when much of the world went into lockdown because of the pandemic, many flower farms’ crops were discarded. Since no one knew what was going to happen, new crops were not planted as usual. Now, because of pandemic-related supply chain challenges, labor shortages and poor…
What is ‘Body Neutrality’ and Can It Change Your Work Out?
The key to staying active long term may be to care less about how you look and more about how you feel.
Hill House Home’s Fan-Favorite Nap Dress Now Has Pockets
We’ve known and loved the one and only Hill House Home Ellie Nap Dress since it dropped in 2019. The epitome of comfy and chic, this dress quickly became a fan-fave fashion piece for its comfortable, loose fit, perfect for frolicking in a field or brunching with friends. I mean, what’s better than a dress…
Why Nasal Covid Vaccines May Make Better Boosters
HYDERABAD, India — On the outskirts of this centuries-old Indian city, a world away from its congested roads and cacophony, the gleaming modern laboratories of Bharat Biotech are churning out a Covid vaccine that would be sprayed into the nose rather than injected into the blood. Currently available vaccines produce powerful, long-lasting immunity against severe…
What the ‘Active Grandparent Hypothesis’ Tells Us About Aging Well
Early humans had to move around often to hunt for food, the thinking goes, and those who moved the most and found the most food were likeliest to survive. Over eons, this process led to the selection of genes that were optimized by plentiful physical activity. Physical activity likewise appears to jump-start various cell processes…
Ashley Flowers Wants to Up the Ante of True Crime
Scott Greenstein, the chief content officer of SiriusXM, signed a partnership deal with Audiochuck last fall, which gives the satellite radio company the exclusive right to manage the podcast network’s advertising sales. In an interview, Mr. Greenstein noted that a lot of media is made by and for people in cities like New York, but…
A Cancer Treatment Makes Leukemia Vanish, but Creates More Mysteries
After the CD8 cells did their job, they remained in the blood but, unexpectedly, they turned into CD4 cells. And when the Penn investigators removed CD4 cells from the blood of Mr. Ludwig and Mr. Olson, they saw that those cells could kill B cells in the laboratory. The CD4 cells had turned into assassins…
Celebrating Ina Garten
Good morning. It’s Groundhog Day, and, whether the rodent bites the mayor or flees its shadow, winter will continue until March 20, and tomorrow will dawn much like this one and much like the one that will follow. The director Harold Ramis understood this, as do many of us who’ve been weathering the pandemic from…
Biden to Present Plan to Cut Cancer Death Rate in Half
WASHINGTON — President Biden will unveil a plan on Wednesday to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years — an ambitious new goal, senior administration officials say, for the cancer “moonshot” program he initiated and presided over five years ago as vice president. Mr. Biden and…