With vaccines still months, maybe years, into the future, researchers are rushing to determine whether existing drugs can be used to treat the coronavirus. In the United States, only one — remdesivir — has been shown to be effective in speeding recovery. In the new study, published in The Lancet, researchers at six public hospitals…
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Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. With no money to pay for college in post-World War II Scotland, 16-year-old June Almeida took an entry-level job in the histology department of a Glasgow hospital, where she learned to examine tissue under a microscope…
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When the Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency approval last week for an antiviral drug, remdesivir, to treat hospitalized coronavirus patients, many doctors were overjoyed. The drug is the first shown to be even mildly effective against the virus. But bafflement soon followed as doctors and hospitals tried to obtain the drug. Small community…
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Satish Gujral, one of India’s best-known artists, was always game to try something new. His early paintings reflected the violence and displacement that accompanied the partitioning of India in 1947 into the countries of India and Pakistan. Later he switched to murals and sculpture. He painted some portraits. And, though not formally trained as an…
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If you haven’t already watched a dozen fashion designers compete to expand their existing brands globally on Making the Cut, now’s the time—the entire first season is available on Amazon Prime for your binge-watching needs. The best part of the show, which is hosted by Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, is that the winning looks…
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The test kit was developed by a Rutgers University laboratory, called RUCDR Infinite Biologics, in partnership with Spectrum Solutions and Accurate Diagnostic Labs. The agency has come under fire in recent weeks for allowing myriad companies to offer diagnostic and antibody tests without submitting timely data for review, under its emergency use authorization policy…
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For more than half a century, in good economic times and bad, health care jobs in the United States just kept increasing. Economists and health analysts thought of them as nearly recession-proof: a buffer against the business cycle. But like so many other patterns, the coronavirus pandemic has broken this relationship. With the virus and…
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After several weeks of hospitalization (unrelated to Covid-19), my mother is back home, snug and settled in the same Brooklyn house where I grew up. To celebrate that, and Mother’s Day, I baked her a challah. It’s the same challah recipe I always use, rich with orange and olive oil, and very adaptable as long…
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Covid-19 has upended daily life in much of the world for so long that the idea of traveling to another country or state seems like the stuff of dreams. But in the last week or so, as the idea of opening up to travelers has gained traction, some countries are taking concrete steps. Yesterday, Australia…
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Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. I’m back from maternity leave, though “back” in the current moment means I’m quarantined at home with a laptop and an entire carafe of coffee. Thank you to Julia Moskin for filling in. If we haven’t yet met, I’m one of the Food editors at The Times. I…
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