Weekly Health Quiz: Exercise, Alcohol and Low-Carb Diets
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
She Was Training for a Marathon. Suddenly, She Could Barely Walk.
A Notably Swift Decline It was late afternoon by the time Dr. Jeremy Jaskunas, who was assigned to her care, first met the patient. She brought a diary detailing the symptoms of the past few weeks, along with a huge stack of results from all her emergency-room and lab visits. He set those aside to…
C.D.C. Pleas for Pregnant or Breastfeeding People to Get Vaccinated
In an urgent plea, federal health officials are asking that any American who is pregnant, planning to become pregnant or currently breastfeeding get vaccinated against the coronavirus as soon as possible. Covid-19 poses a severe risk during pregnancy, when a person’s immune system is tamped down, and raises the risk of stillbirth or another poor…
How Accurate Are At-Home Covid Tests?
In the early months of the pandemic, getting a coronavirus test typically required visiting a health care center, a laboratory or a dedicated testing site, a process that sometimes involved long lines and waiting a week or more to get the results. Americans can now take rapid virus tests from the comfort of their own…
How I Hold It Together: Birds, Boxing and More
Six ways I’m staying happy and healthy.
Why Is Making Plans So Hard Right Now?
There’s not enough momentum.
YouTube Bans Anti-Vaccine Misinformation
But creating a new set of rules and enforcement policies took months, because it is difficult to rein in content across many languages and because of the complicated debate over where to draw the line on what users can post, the person said. For example, YouTube will not remove a video of a parent talking…
Most U.S. Health Workers Are Complying With Vaccine Mandates
Hundreds of sought-after nurses are leaving some U.S. hospitals that have established vaccine requirements for all employees, involving some protests and legal opposition. But most workers, especially at large hospital chains, appear to be complying with the policies. New York hospitals and nursing homes are grappling with the state’s Monday deadline for workers to have…
The Melting Face Emoji Has Already Won Us Over
Of the 37 new emojis approved this year, one has stood out as a visual proxy for our collective malaise.
Why Exercise Is More Important Than Weight Loss for a Longer Life
In other studies from Dr. Gaesser’s lab, though, overweight and obese people with significant health problems, including high blood pressure, poor cholesterol profiles or insulin resistance, a marker for Type 2 diabetes, showed considerable improvements in those conditions after they started exercising, whether they dropped any weight or not. Seeing these results, Dr. Gaesser began…