Giving climate change a worthy amount of attention can seem a daunting task. The scope of the problem is colossal; the obstacles to equitable solutions myriad. Yet we know the time for ignoring global warming has long passed. This Earth Day (Thursday), make a resolution to learn more about our collective planetary problems, along with…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. The pandemic has reshaped our reality. To gain a better understanding of this transformation, Elizabeth Dias and Audra D. S. Burch, correspondents for the National desk, recently spoke with people across the country about their…
The Biden administration on Friday lifted restrictions on the use of fetal tissue for medical research, reversing rules imposed in 2019 by President Donald J. Trump. The new rules, disclosed by the National Institutes of Health, allow scientists to use tissue derived from elective abortions to study and develop treatments for diseases including diabetes, cancer,…
Scott Cohen was on a ventilator struggling for his life with Covid-19 last April when his brothers pleaded with Plainview Hospital on Long Island to infuse him with the blood plasma of a recovered patient. The experimental treatment was hard to get but was gaining attention at a time when doctors had little else. After…
But symptoms like fatigue are often not recognized as being related to myocarditis. And Dr. McManus suspects that the fatigue that sometimes follows a bout with Covid-19 might be caused by this heart problem. “We think of Covid-19 and influenza as respiratory diseases, and in fact they are,” said Dr. Bruce M. McManus, an emeritus…
Sophia Antipolis – 17 April 2021: Elevated blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes increase the risk of heart disease. But a large study today reveals that in people with these conditions, increasing activity levels is associated with a reduced likelihood of heart events and mortality. The research is presented at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2021, an…
Dr. Lipman said that as the team had studied her blood samples, the pieces began to fall into place, and they realized that she appeared to have the same problem that they knew had been occurring in Britain and Europe after patients received the AstraZeneca vaccine, mostly in young women. They switched from heparin to…
“I let people lean on me as the coach,” said Becs Gentry, one of Peloton’s running instructors. Since she records classes while running herself, Ms. Gentry uses her own internal battles as motivators. If she feels exhausted she’ll say: “I know this sucks, guys, but we are gonna do this together. Don’t let me down.”…
LONDON — In my last column, I described how the past year had made me a more flexible cook: more democratic, less judgmental. It got me thinking generally about the way certain vegetables are described, the adjectives they are often associated with. Why is an eggplant deemed “mighty,” for example, while leeks are often prefaced…
I have always had a large bust, but I am about to undergo a bilateral mastectomy. I do not intend to undergo any reconstruction. I want to try to make the best of this transition and embrace the fashion options a flat chest offers woman that were never available to me. I am looking for…