Choosing a Word of the Year: Top Themes of 2022
Picking a word of the year helps you focus on the positive changes you’d like to make in your life, no matter what 2022 might have in store.
Picking a word of the year helps you focus on the positive changes you’d like to make in your life, no matter what 2022 might have in store.
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday stepped up his administration’s response to a coronavirus surge driven by the Omicron variant, sending what he said is urgently needed help to overwhelmed hospitals and pledging to provide Americans with free tests and masks as the country enters the pandemic’s third year. Mr. Biden said he was directing…
DetailsFor decades, researchers have suspected that people infected with an exceedingly common virus, Epstein-Barr, might be more likely to develop multiple sclerosis, a neurological illness that affects a million people in the United States. Now, a team of researchers reports what some say is the most compelling evidence yet of a strong link between the…
DetailsResearchers in Scotland reported on Thursday that pregnant women with Covid were not only at greater risk of developing severe disease, but also more likely to lose their fetuses and babies in the womb or shortly after birth, compared with other women who gave birth during the pandemic. The risk of losing a baby through…
DetailsAs a cardiologist, Dr. Califf spent decades leading clinical trials at the Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina. Most recently, he led clinical policy and strategy for Verily, the life sciences arm at Alphabet, the parent company of Google. During the hearing, he emphasized the value of existing data, much in patients’ electronic medical…
DetailsHarrison Snow began bartending at age 18, in Providence, R.I. Nearly three years later, in 2020, he was behind the bar at the Paris Seaport Bar & Creperie in Boston. That job proved a stroke of luck, because the restaurant’s cocktail menu was supervised by a man ever-dressed in retro sport shirts and porkpie hats…
DetailsCourtesy of the subjects; Getty Images Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “Fashion has basically operated in this black box for so long,” says New York State Senator Alessandra Biaggi. She’s talking about the way that, unlike the finance, food, and automotive industries, fashion has been able…
DetailsBut other trans health specialists are concerned by the sharp increase in adolescents who are referred to gender clinics, and worry that the desire for hormones and surgeries may be driven partly by peer influence on social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube. “The kids presenting these days are very different than what I was…
DetailsI’m on a broccoli-cooking spree, and last week, I was mesmerized by a whole head of chartreuse-colored romanesco — the whirling, psychedelic, beautifully repetitive structure. When I posted it to Instagram, the cookbook author Domenica Marchetti called it “the M.C. Escher of vegetables,” and the journalist Julia O’Malley told me she refers to it as…
DetailsHow do you know if your skin is really dry and sensitive, and how to choose the right care for your sensitive skin? Should you call your skin sensitive? There is a general definition of sensitive skin – it is hyper-reactive skin, characterized by overreaction in response to stimulating factors. To put it simply, the…
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