The Food and Drug Administration on Friday called for a federal investigation of the process that led to the approval of a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease that has spurred sharp criticism from lawmakers and the medical community. In a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services’ independent Office of the Inspector General,…
VENICE — The International Monetary Fund took a step on Friday toward easing widening global inequality and helping poor nations get access to vaccines, saying its executive board approved a plan to issue $650 billion worth of reserve funds that countries can use to buy vaccines, finance health care and pay down debt. The decision…
Yousra Attia Wedding season is slowly making it back on everyone’s radars. With the plethora of celebratory ceremonies of love coming your way, planning is necessary. You need to brainstorm wedding gifts, make travel arrangements, figure out what makeup look you’ll replicating, and the most important of all, finalize your outfit. Of course, a dress…
After many months without physical connection, a post-vaccination summer has led many New Yorkers to usher in the season with a full-fledged return to public canoodling. While a P.D.A. sighting might have been off-putting before the pandemic, some see the increase in couples kissing, touching, hugging and grinding on the dance floors as a sign…
Largely freed from domestic travel restrictions, Americans have been flocking to national parks in record numbers this spring and summer. Several parks — including Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park — have already set monthly visitation records. Many sites are gearing up for their busiest years in history. And so, in place of…
Hello, friends, and happy cooking. I’m filling in for Emily this week and feeling excited about being in the kitchen again after trying Naz Deravian’s abdoogh khiar, a chilled buttermilk-yogurt soup with cucumbers, walnuts, raisins and herbs. It’s fun to have something new for dinner, especially when it requires so little work (and no stovetop…
In the latest volley of the debate over the origins of the coronavirus, a group of scientists this week presented a review of scientific findings that they argue shows a natural spillover from animal to human is a far more likely cause of the pandemic than a laboratory incident. Among other things, the scientists point…
It was still pitch black when Nadia Hamila, then a young schoolgirl, would roll out of her warm bed at 3 a.m. to accompany her father to the abattoir in northern London on the first morning of Eid al-Adha. Ms. Hamila, who at 40 is an entrepreneur and the owner of a Moroccan packaged food…
Mr. Pollack proposed to Ms. Loeb last summer, just as their designs were starting to attract attention. “I knew I wanted to marry her for a long time,” he said. But figuring out how, as they spent every day together working in their pajamas in the Morristown apartment, was a challenge. July 17 is his…
Others, including some who have been highly critical of the C.D.C.’s past school guidance, praised the new guidelines. “For the first time, I really think they hit it on the nose,” said Dr. Benjamin Linas, an infectious disease specialist at Boston University. “I think it’s science-based and right on the mark.” Dr. Linas said that…