How I Hold It Together: ‘Distress Walks’ and More
A senior staff editor for Well shares six simple tips for staying happy, healthy and balanced.
A senior staff editor for Well shares six simple tips for staying happy, healthy and balanced.
CVS and Walgreens, two of the nation’s largest retail pharmacy chains, said on Wednesday that they had reached tentative agreements to pay about $5 billion each to settle thousands of lawsuits over their role in the opioid crisis, a development that could signal the beginning of the end of years of opioid litigation. Since 2013,…
Researchers warned an expert panel of the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday that flawed readings on devices measuring oxygen levels in the blood — especially among Black and dark-skinned patients — might have contributed to deaths during the coronavirus pandemic. Panelists, in turn, urged the federal agency to raise accuracy standards and to alert…
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans, eyeing a midterm election victory that could hand them control of the House and the Senate, have embraced plans to reduce federal spending on Social Security and Medicare, including cutting benefits for some retirees and raising the retirement age for both safety net programs. The Republican Party is billing the moves…
Lawmakers are seeking to make online assistance of suicide a federal crime, pushing to hold accountable both individual users and the tech companies and websites that allow such content on their platforms. A bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives on Monday, the Stop Online Suicide Assistance Forums Act, comes amid rising concern over…
The key to enjoying exercise after a fitful slumber is to start early and keep it simple.
A Visit to a Dude Ranch The patient was a slender, energetic man who looked younger than his 62 years, Azar noted when he met the man the following week. Informed by the results of the biopsy, the infectious-disease doctor asked the patient the same questions the C.D.C. raised about his recent travel. Had he…
A pediatrician in Mount Zion, Ill., sent a video of a 6-month-old named Natalie to a colleague for advice: The infant’s belly was puffing and retracting with every pant as she struggled to breathe, her nostrils flaring and bubbles forming on her lips. Like dozens of Dr. Caitlyn Berg’s patients in recent weeks, Natalie was…
But the tally also underestimates the number of abortions in some ways. It does not include people who ordered pills from other overseas websites. Aid Access is the largest such provider, but others have recently started or expanded. The data also excludes women who got an abortion outside the formal health system in another way,…
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