Hair mask is not a rare product, but still not everyone knows how to use it properly. Today we will share the secrets of hair repair, which only hair stylists know. The mask can be applied to dry hair A more popular option is to apply the mask to damp hair, dried with a towel.…
Gatorade is sold as an exercise enhancement drink. It contains rehydrating electrolytes but also has a high concentration of sugar. With this in mind, is drinking Gatorade good or bad for people’s health and sports performance? Gatorade is classified as a “sports drink.” Scientists at the University of Florida developed the drink in 1965 with…
Gender Letter helps you keep up with the world, and the women shaping it. Tell me what you think at dearmaya@nytimes.com. Two doors. When Christine Blasey Ford and her husband remodeled their California home, she insisted on installing a second door — a second egress from which she could escape, if necessary. It was a…
As a 12-year-old, Lois and her two siblings helped care for her invalid father until he died of diabetes at 51. She vowed then to become a doctor and to find a cure. “I saw death and dying as a child,” she once recalled. Years later, Dr. Jovanovic, after 29 weeks of pregnancy, gave birth…
For more than 40 years, Morningside Ministries operated a nursing home in San Antonio, caring for as many as 113 elderly residents. The facility, called Chandler Estate, added a small independent living building in the 1980s and an even smaller assisted living center in the 90s, all on the same four-acre campus. The whole complex…
“Here’s what men don’t get about the #MeToo movement: It is not about women, it’s about us,” Wade Davis, a former N.F.L. player turned educator and activist, said at the New Rules Summit. By “us” he meant men. Women “are laying themselves bare to awaken us, so we can do better,” he said to a…
Drugs kill thousands of people in the United States and globally every year. New research may help develop more effective methods to curb the epidemic. Researchers reveal that drug overdose rates have been on the rise for several decades. “The drug overdose epidemic” normally brings to mind prescription opioids and illegal drugs such as cocaine…
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…
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…