The Supreme Court seems poised to temporarily allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a woman’s health is at risk, according to a copy of what appeared to be the opinion that showed up briefly on the court’s website on Wednesday. The unsigned opinion dismissed the case on procedural grounds, stating that the court, for now,…
In an unusual move, federal health officials revised their recommendations for who should receive the vaccine against the respiratory syncytial virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended last year that adults age 60 or older could receive a single lifetime dose of an R.S.V. vaccine, in consultation with their health care providers. On…
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Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, chair of the Senate health committee, called on a government watchdog to investigate why insurance companies are still charging women for birth control — a move that thrust access to contraceptives back into the spotlight. In a letter to the Government Accountability Office, the senator noted that insurance…
It was a Tuesday night in June, and Sabrina Fuentes, the frontwoman of the band Pretty Sick, was about to make her usual Tuesday night rounds in Lower Manhattan. That meant hitting a bar or two with the idea of ending up at Studio 151, a sushi restaurant above the nightclub Nublu. As the night…
I’ve long hoarded the fat from every strip of bacon, every duck breast or leg I cook, decanting the drippings into jars like drops of a golden elixir. Almost every potato that enters my house gets the duck fat treatment for roasting. I smear bacon fat on the bread to ennoble a classic BLT. And…
Based on the reviews, you’d think this down alternative comforter was five times more costly than it is. Sizes: Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, Oversized Queen, King, Oversized King, California King Colors: 10 options Material: Polyfill Customer review: “I’m a mighty picky person; when shopping, I have a certain criteria that must be met, and…
Hello! Mia again, filling in for Melissa Clark today. She’ll be back with us next week. When I moved into my first New York City apartment (on 112th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue), there was enough space in my teensy galley kitchen for exactly one kitchen appliance. Would it be a microwave? A food…
My grandmother’s funeral and my niece’s first-birthday party are scheduled for the same date and time in New York. (The baby is my brother-in-law’s daughter.) Neither side will shift the start time by even an hour. We live in California with the rest of my family, so my husband, two children (7 and 9) and…
Federal health officials warned that the risk of contracting dengue in the United States has increased this year, a worrying sign as global cases of the mosquito-borne disease hit record numbers. In the first half of this year, countries in the Americas reported twice as many cases as were reported in all of 2023, the…