How Can I Clear Congestion? What to Know About Treatment and Causes
Seasonal allergies, pet dander, temperature changes and sinus infections are just a few potential triggers for this common problem. Here’s what experts say can help.
Seasonal allergies, pet dander, temperature changes and sinus infections are just a few potential triggers for this common problem. Here’s what experts say can help.
Paul Berg, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who ushered in the era of genetic engineering in 1971 by successfully combining DNA from two different organisms, died on Wednesday at his home on the Stanford University campus in California. He was 96. His death was announced by the Stanford School of Medicine. After his breakthrough with DNA,…
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — On a quiet street corner, a sign marks the birthplace of a beverage behemoth: Here, in 1954, the Tri-City Beverage Corporation bottled its first case of Mountain Dew. The soda was originally uncolored and lemon-lime flavored, and its inventors used it as a mixer with bourbon. “Mountain dew” is also a…
Heather Rendulic was 23 when she suffered a stroke that disabled her left side. Ten years later, her left arm and hand remain so impaired that she cannot tie her shoes, type with two hands or cut her own food. But for an extraordinary month, while participating in an innovative study, she suddenly was able…
The psychologist Lisa Damour shares advice on how to connect, what healthy emotions look like and when to step in.
Calling It Quits is a series about the current culture of quitting. One morning, in fall 2020, Francesca Camacho drove away from her 12-hour night shift as a critical care nurse at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and tried to merge onto the highway. The day’s work, in her words, was “just very terrible.”…
For Greg Rice, ketamine was transformative. The drug, approved decades ago to sedate patients during surgery, was increasingly being used to treat mental health conditions like his depression. Since his teenage years, Mr. Rice had cycled through a long list of medications. Searching for relief, he sometimes abused his prescriptions and experimented with LSD, psychedelic…
Some men have told her, flat-out, that they would never date someone with herpes, but what bothers her, too, are the ones who say, “I’m so sorry this happened to you.” “I don’t want people to feel sorry for me,” she said. “I wake up every day and I’m fine.” Scientists have worked on herpes…
Lynn Rivers, a Democrat from Michigan, opened up about her diagnosis with bipolar disorder during a radio call-in show when she first ran for Congress. Her opponents had been hinting she had mental health problems. She decided, spur of the moment, to let it out. “Finally, I just said, ‘Are you asking me if I…
It’s time to show these overlooked muscles more love.