When Renee Seman learned she had Stage 4 breast cancer in 2014, she set a goal for herself: to use her remaining time to run marathons. Six of them, in fact, in New York, Chicago, Boston, Berlin, Tokyo and London. Together, they constitute the Abbott World Marathon Majors, a collection of the most distinguished marathons…
Often, the goal when making drinks at home is to, well, drink at home. It’s not to try a new technique, buy an obscure bottle you’ll use only a quarter ounce of, or wait 20-plus minutes for a cocktail — that’s what bars are for. There is, however, one major lesson to be learned from…
I am wondering how the spermicides on condoms affect my vagina. Is there a condom that is more vagina friendly? — Dominique McGrady, Comox, Canada [Have a question about women’s health? Ask Dr. Gunter yourself.] Short Take Spermicide can have negative effects on the vagina, and — maybe surprisingly — it doesn’t increase how well…
Good morning. I hope you’ll be getting first tracks at Mt. Hood in Oregon this weekend, pushing out of Timberline to hit Thunder to Phlox to Wingle’s Wiggle, then back up Pucci, en route Magic Mile. I hope you’ll greet sunrise at the edge of the Everglades, push down toward the Lostmans River, Watson’s Place,…
Food producers and manufacturers have the primary responsibility of ensuring that their products are safe. One incident of recall is enough to cause financial ruin and tarnish the reputation of a business. One way to prevent this issue is by deploying a food traceability system that can track and record the movement of ingredients during…
There comes a moment every winter when reality sinks in that the cold, dark days and long nights are nowhere near over. You can hardly remember a time when your apartment did not feel tropical, the unfortunate result of an overly ambitious radiator. And your relationship with that Amazon coat, which seemed so on-trend last…
I always liked myself better for what I could be than for what I was — especially when it came to my body. This started at age 3 in dance class, where the other girls, unlike me, had thin arms and legs. The other girls’ tights, unlike mine, didn’t dig into their waists like a…
Oakland, known as “The Town” in local parlance, is often defined by its differences from San Francisco across the bay. But the city — birthplace of the Black Panther movement — is a bubbling caldron of creative energy worth exploring on its own. Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, better known as Fantastic Negrito, is an Oakland-based musician…
For most of my adult life, every winter when awards season rolled around I would get primed and ready to have an epic night. Not because I was an Oscar-nominated ingénue about to walk the red carpet in Valentino couture and Bulgari earrings, but because my mom’s red carpet commentary was the stuff of legend.…
February 7, 2020 – Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) have been highly effective in reducing pneumonia and other invasive infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria. But rates of meningitis have shown little change, as pneumococcal strains not targeted by PCVs emerge as more important causes of meningitis, reports a paper in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal,…