My mother died after a two-year battle with cancer. Her palliative care nurse (for much of that time) helped me wash and dress her body, and signed her death certificate. Now, my father has revealed that he began a sexual relationship with the nurse shortly after my mother died. I feel the nurse betrayed her…
Advertisement Fashion Review Image Rick Owens, spring 2019.CreditCreditValerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times Sept. 28, 2018 PARIS — There’s no good way to write about fashion in the wake of the scorched-earth event that took place Thursday in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. No respectable segues into focusing on clothes. No agreed-on…
HONG KONG — A man in Hong Kong has been found to have a strain of hepatitis E that had only been seen previously in rats, researchers said on Friday. While rats have passed on several other illnesses to people, this was the first discovery in humans of the rat variation of hepatitis E, a…
If you haven’t visited a college campus, secondhand store or seen “Crazy Rich Asians,” in which one of the central characters possesses a Jamba Juice freebie card, you may not have heard: Thrift is cool. In hospitality, that spirit has worked its way from Airbnb mania to spinoff hotel brands and independent properties that promise…
Elaine Hoffman and Neil Ullman met three years ago as students at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, N.J. Ms. Hoffman, who lived in Berkeley Heights, N.J., thought Mr. Ullman, who resided in nearby Florham Park, might be the kind of classmate who could potentially become a “friend to spend some time with.” “He was very…
The model, TV personality and entrepreneur Heidi Klum keeps extraordinarily busy. As the longtime host, along with Tim Gunn, of “Project Runway” (until the two recently decided to leave the show to develop a new reality fashion series at Amazon Prime Video), Ms. Klum spent 16 seasons both guiding and chastising aspirational designers hoping to…
Q. Many medications should be taken on an empty stomach. How do you know when your stomach is empty? A. Two hours after eating is a crude rule of thumb. A more accurate answer depends on the drugs you are taking and your medical conditions. Doctors began studying gastric emptying times in the 1940s at…
A new, large-scale study published in The BMJ suggests that newer birth control pills can significantly reduce the risk of ovarian cancer among young women. Newer birth control pills may keep ovarian cancer at bay, reports new research. In the United States, ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate of all gynecologic cancers, according to…
With awards season approaching, stylists are at fashion weeks, scoping out looks for their clients, readying them to be at their best for months of parading down scads of red carpets. Harvey Weinstein may be banished, but the awards campaign machine he helped create grinds on. Now, a year into #MeToo, and after the emboldened…
I didn’t meet my girlfriend, Jessica, until 12 years after our daughter, Alice, was born. Let me explain. Nearly 25 years ago, I returned from a year of teaching English abroad, moved in with my mother and, lacking prospects, began driving a cab. One day I saw a newspaper ad seeking healthy men, 18 to…