A panel of experts said on Tuesday that a groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease was safe enough for clinical use, setting the stage for likely federal approval by Dec. 8 of a powerful potential cure for an illness that afflicts more than 100,000 Americans. The Food and Drug Administration had previously found that the…
“If you follow me on Instagram, you thought this book was going to be written in emojis, didn’t you?” Britney Spears asks at the end of her memoir, “The Woman in Me.” She has said that completing the recently published book — an account of her journey from Louisiana to the top of the pop…
Mixing the medical and the personal, several memoirists find literary analogies the best way to capture unwelcome visits to “unimaginable lands.”
Loud Love My husband is a bit of an introvert. Me? Not so much. Shortly after we moved from Brooklyn, N.Y. to Durham, N.C., a friend invited us to another person’s costume karaoke party. Knowing I really wanted to go dressed as members from the band Odyssey, my husband put on a wig, unbuttoned his…
Headliner Café Carmellini The chef Andrew Carmellini’s trajectory has been a steady climb, not a rocketing blastoff. Now, having reached cruising altitude after 30 years at the stove in New York, a city where his family has roots, he’s finally putting his name on a restaurant. It’s in a first-class building, formerly a bank and…
Everyone has comfort food. Here’s mine: juicy meatballs done Italian American style, served with homemade tomato sauce or piled on top of a spaghetti heap. I used to make a pot of meatballs when friends came over for dinner because it was cozy but not frumpy and everyone loved it. It was also very easy.…
In the early days of the pandemic, Jonathan Travis and his friend Ethan Rafii were visiting another friend’s country house outside New York City when they began to dream big. What if they pooled their resources and bought a shared house together? “To be candid, we were having a mushroom experience,” said Mr. Rafii, 38,…
Like other eco-conscious consumers, I try to buy secondhand often but, tragically, I lack the patience and keen eye necessary to really excel at thrifting. Admittedly, I’ve never been particularly good at sorting through racks of clothing for hours on end, and even the pieces I do manage to take home are left languishing in…
In June, grasping her white stuffed puppy with floppy ears and her red blanket printed with gray hedgehogs, Alexandra waited in the pre-op area. She was nervous, but “not as nervous as she is,” she said, pointing to her mother. Gabriela nodded and said, “I think I’m thinking too much.” Alexandra’s father sat quietly beside…
There are thousands on the market, but relatively few situations where they’re proven to be beneficial.