Should You Take Paxlovid? What to Know About the Covid Treatment
We asked experts about who should take the antiviral medication, how well it works and where to get it for free.
Can Dieting Actually Lead to Long-Term Weight Loss?
We asked experts to explain what diets can (and can’t) do for our health.
Common Shares His Favorite Books and Music Influences
“Invisible Man” “made me feel seen and heard,” the rapper-actor says. “I can return the favor.” His new book, “And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving and Taking Care of Self” is out this month.
The Quest to Unlock New Haven’s Pizza Moment
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. New Haveners and Yale graduates alike size one another up with a handshake and a single question: What’s your favorite pizza place? The answer can say a lot about a person. A traditionalist might go…
Was This Man’s Weakness Related to Recent Oral Surgery?
His doctor had darker suspicions.
Lloyd Austin’s Hidden Diagnosis: Why Some People Keep Serious Illnesses Private
The U.S. defense secretary is facing scrutiny after failing to immediately disclose to the White House his recent prostate-cancer diagnosis and a related hospitalization, a breach of protocol for which he has apologized. But while the secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, as a cabinet member, faces certain expectations about what he must disclose publicly regarding…
Women With Depression During or After Pregnancy Face Greater Suicide Risk, Even Years Later
What the research shows A research team analyzed records of nearly a million women in Sweden’s national medical registries from 2001 through 2017, comparing 86,551 women who had perinatal depression with 865,510 women who did not. The groups were matched by age and year they gave birth. In two studies, the team found that depression…
‘Gas-Station Heroin’ Sold as Dietary Supplement Alarms Health Officials
The young father headed across the parking lot to join the other parents meeting their children’s new preschool teachers. After a few steps, he began sweating and twitching. As the sky reeled, he staggered back to the car, desperate to lie down in the back seat and breathe, hidden by tinted windows. “Did you take…
The New York City Style of Mayor Eric Adams
In past interviews, the mayor has claimed to be a Men’s Warehouse and Century 21 shopper; as Brooklyn borough president, a less-svelte Mr. Adams favored boxy, off-the-rack silhouettes, his fashion sense appearing to amplify on the campaign trail, culminating with a new ear piercing to commemorate his first day in office. “Mayor Adams always dresses…
An Oatmeal Cookie Recipe for Raisin Haters
It may come as a shock to legions of chocolate chip devotees, but there’s a small but passionate faction of cookie lovers who prefer oatmeal raisin. It’s not that we just tolerate oatmeal raisin cookies, nor that we think of them as a dignified second best. It’s that we would, in fact, brush past a…