Scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are taking up a thorny challenge on Thursday: Who qualifies for the new Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus booster and why? On Wednesday evening, the Food and Drug Administration authorized booster shots of the vaccine for people over 65 who received their second at least six months earlier.…
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The 21st night of September, the Autumn equinox and the Mid-Autumn Festival, I split a rich, flaky mooncake with my partner. It’s officially fall this week, but it doesn’t feel like it yet. In Los Angeles, it’s hot. And there are still tons of beautiful eggplant and tomatoes at the farmers’ market, including teeny, sweet…
DetailsExperts question whether we can describe a toxic relationship the way we talk about gambling or alcohol. But some have found that framework to be a helpful step in the road to freedom.
Linda Evangelista, the supermodel made famous in the 1990s, said she had become “brutally disfigured” and “unrecognizable” after a cosmetic body-sculpting procedure that had turned her into a recluse. “Today I took a big step towards righting a wrong that I have suffered and have kept to myself for over five years,” she wrote in…
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A scientific task force on Thursday called for jettisoning a common measure of kidney function that adjusts results by race, providing different assessments for Black patients than for others. The adjustment may make Black patients seem less ill than they really are, according to many experts. Instead, doctors should rely on a race-neutral method for…
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On Monday, the White House announced that come November, it will lift the ban on most travelers from the European Union, China, Iran, South Africa, Brazil and India, as long as they can show proof of vaccination and a negative coronavirus test. The new rules were widely celebrated by many countries whose citizens have been…
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MILAN — Climate Week had just begun in New York when seemingly half the fashion journalists, retailers and related style professionals in the city boarded a Delta flight to Milan — most for the first time since February 2020, just before the world came to a virus-induced halt. Despite all the talk that has been…
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Ms. Collins’s next trip to the United States, in New York’s Hudson Valley, included yet another walk with Mr. Steuer, this one down the wedding aisle at FEAST at Round Hill, an events in Washingtonville, N.Y., where they were married July 22. It was the first time the bride and groom had met each other’s…
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Fashion Week is back in full force, and there’s a lot to see. Blink (or scroll too fast on Instagram) and you’ll miss the details: tiny bags, tall shoes, feathered hats, leather capes and diamond dog collars. So as part of a new series, Wow Moment, we’ll spotlight things we saw on the runways that…
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