BMI Alone Is Not Enough to Assess Health, American Medical Association says
Body mass index has long been a standard, but controversial, measurement of weight and health.
Body mass index has long been a standard, but controversial, measurement of weight and health.
Why It Matters: Some people remain at risk. Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax have made it clear that they need time to make tens of millions of doses of the shots that would be available in the fall. “I think that’s what today’s discussion is about — how to best to come up with what goes…
Lawyers for the disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes said this week that she would be unable to afford to pay $250 each month to victims of her failed blood-testing start-up, Theranos, after leaving prison. Ms. Holmes, 39, began an 11-year, three-month prison sentence in Texas in May after she was found guilty last year of four…
In 1988, a 65-year-old man’s heart stopped at home. His wife and son didn’t know CPR, so in desperation they grabbed a toilet plunger to get his heart going until an ambulance showed up. Later, after the man recovered at San Francisco General Hospital, his son gave the doctors there some advice: Put toilet plungers…
The News A majority of Americans with health insurance said they had encountered obstacles to coverage, including denied medical care, higher bills and a dearth of doctors in their plans, according to a new survey from KFF, a nonprofit health research group. As a result, some people delayed or skipped treatment. Those who were most…
Dean’s essay caught my eye, too, because I spent much of the previous few years reporting on moral injury, interviewing workers in menial occupations whose jobs were ethically compromising. I spoke to prison guards who patrolled the wards of violent penitentiaries, undocumented immigrants who toiled on the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses and roustabouts who…
On a recent flight to Chicago, Allison Levy said she was “white-knuckling” the armrest as the plane rumbled and shook for brief periods of time. Ms. Levy, 47, who lives in Arlington, Va., started to take deep breaths and tried to reassure herself: “It’s like a bumpy road — it’s not a big deal.” But,…
The two will discuss their shared love of birding in a free live virtual event as part of The New York Times summer birding project.
The autopsy report for the track star Tori Bowie lists this rare and sometimes fatal complication of pregnancy.
Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were skeptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of whom ministered to ailments they did not understand. Poets especially ridiculed surgeons for being greedy, for taking sexual advantage of patients and, above all, for incompetence. In his “Natural History,” Pliny the…