Pain control in infants and children has come a long way over the past few decades. Experts know how to provide appropriate anesthesia when children need surgery and understand the ways that even very young children express distress when they’re hurting afterward. There is a lot of evidence about reducing the pain and anxiety that…
Image Making time to exercise, like many good things in life, can be hard to accomplish unless it’s on autopilot. CreditDavid Swanson/The Philadelphia Inquirer, via Associated Press A $100 billion dollar health care package was proposed by congressional Republicans this past summer, and afterward endorsed by some Democrats. It aims to save money by encouraging…
Acne appeared sporadically at first when Sophia Steinberg was in the eighth grade, but within two years she said her face, chest and back were covered with embarrassing lesions of cystic acne. “I was very self-conscious, deeply insecure and anxious,” Sophia, a Brooklyn high school student, told me. “I would wake up ashamed for my…
Pre-Tribeca, no-Nolita downtown Manhattan in the mid-1970s was a place of quiet darkness and hidden clubs. Little Italy was still Italian and affordable when I moved to Elizabeth Street. One night I arrived home to find that my apartment had been broken into. My stereo and speakers were gone. More important, also missing was a…
The 2019 Golden Globes didn’t want any trouble. The previous two years, the usually bubbly event found itself responding to upheavals in politics and in the power structure of Hollywood. This year a big issue hanging over the awards ceremony was another awards ceremony: the Oscars, which is still without a host after a search…
Sandra Oh is no stranger to the Golden Globe stage. In 2006, the Grey’s Anatomy alum won a Golden Globe for best supporting actress in a drama for her role as Christina Yang in the cult-favorite medical drama. But this year, not only is Oh back at the Golden Globe (she already walked away with…
There’s always one color that seems to prevail on every major red carpet and for the 2019 Golden Globes it was all about nude. And not nude in the sheer, barely-there sense. For this year’s ceremony, celebrities reached for shades of nude, beige, pink, and cream. Ahead, 14 of the best nude looks from the…
• Following a lighthearted opening monologue from the hosts, Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg, Oh became emotional as she talked about diversity in Hollywood. “I wanted to be here to look out into this audience and witness this moment of change,” she explained. • “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born” won best song. • Oh…
Tonight’s Golden Globes mark one year since attendees signaled their commitment to fighting sexual misconduct and inequity in the workplace by donning Time’s Up pins and bringing activists — including Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, and Ai-jen Poo, the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance — to the ceremony as their…
Imagine being held up at gunpoint. Do you trust you could remember the perpetrator’s face? The gun? Or would you have a better recollection of how loud the birds were chirping at that moment? “The memory does not operate like a videotape machine faithfully recording every single detail,” said Richard J. McNally, a professor of…