WUHAN, China — President Xi Jinping strode onstage before an adoring audience in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing less than three weeks ago, trumpeting his successes in steering China through a tumultuous year and promising “landmark” progress in 2020. “Every single Chinese person, every member of the Chinese nation, should feel proud…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageMedical workers on Friday at a convention center in Wuhan, China, that has been turned into a makeshift hospital.Credit…Cnsphoto, via Reuters An American in Wuhan has died from the coronavirus. A United States citizen has died from the new coronavirus in Wuhan, China, in what appeared to be the…
One patient, admitted to a hospital in Wuhan, China, infected at least 10 health care workers and four other patients with the coronavirus that has sickened more than 34,000 people, killed 700 and reached two dozen other countries. The case was just one disturbing detail in a new report on 138 patients in Wuhan that…
With an intense flu season in full swing, hundreds of thousands of coughing and feverish patients have already overwhelmed emergency rooms around the United States. Now, hospitals are bracing for the potential spread of coronavirus that could bring another surge of patients. So far, only a dozen people in the United States have become infected…
For more than a month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been offering to send a team of experts to China to observe its coronavirus outbreak and help if it can. Normally, teams from the agency’s Epidemic Intelligence Service can be in the air within 24 hours. But no invitation has come —…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageWearing protective gear near the cruise ship Diamond Princess in Yokohama, Japan, on Friday. Cruise companies like Royal Caribbean are taking precautionary measures due to the impact the coronavirus is having on these large ships.Credit…Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters Royal Caribbean bars passengers from China. The cruise company Royal Caribbean announced Friday…
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…
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…
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.…
