Pregnant and breastfeeding women respond to the first dose of the coronavirus vaccines more slowly than other women, and mount a less potent defense against the virus, according to a new study. After the second dose, however, their response looks almost normal. The results, published this month in the journal Science Translational Medicine, suggest that…
Details
Good morning. Melissa Clark took to the pages of The Times this week to give us a terrific look back at her last five years cooking with an electric pressure cooker. Of course there are recipes — for pork stew with red wine and olives (above), for tomato-braised chickpeas with tahini, for rice pudding. But…
Details
In the intervening years, the types of prescription drugs available — and their prices — have changed. Revlimid is just one of several very expensive cancer drugs. About 1.5 million Medicare beneficiaries qualified for the catastrophic benefit in 2019, often running up thousands of dollars in bills. Many piece together financing by applying for foundation…
Details
Merck has granted a royalty-free license for its promising Covid-19 pill to a United Nations-backed nonprofit in a deal that would allow the drug to be manufactured and sold cheaply in the poorest nations, where vaccines for the coronavirus are in devastatingly short supply. The agreement with the Medicines Patent Pool, an organization that works…
Details
We will tell you how to prevent split ends and what to do if they have already appeared. The problem of thinning hair and split ends is becoming more acute as the summer comes to an end. The sun, saltwater from the sea, chlorinated water from the pool, high humidity, and pleasant refreshing breeze slowly…
Details
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Maria Ryadova recalled being in a dusty room inside the Alexander Palace, hopping from one floor beam to another and peering into the dark chasm beneath, on the day she and her team of workers made a momentous discovery. A pile of broken blue tiles had been hiding in the darkness.…
Details
In my first apartment in New York, my roommates and I didn’t have a table, so we ate on the couch, side by side, squashed in front of the television with takeout containers of pad kee mao from the Thai restaurant across Second Avenue balanced on our laps. So in my next apartment, the one…
Details
When Nicole Pellegrino was married on Sept. 4, she wore an opal ring that belonged to her mother, Diane Pellegrino, as her “something blue.” But for Ms. Pellegrino, 28, the tribute to her mother, who died from cancer in August 2017, did not end there. At the wedding in Annapolis, Md., the bride also “saved”…
Details
Back in January, Vogue posted a video documenting a day in the life of a TikTok star named Dixie D’Amelio. Inside her antiseptic luxury apartment, D’Amelio, then 19, scrambles eggs, applies eye shadow and delivers a monologue sprinkled with false bravado. Dixie drafted to fame behind her younger sister, Charli — but while Charli has…
Details
WASHINGTON — An expert committee advising the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday recommended that regulators authorize Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds, bringing about 28 million children a major step closer to becoming eligible for shots. If the F.D.A. follows the panel’s advice in the coming days, as is expected, the Biden administration…
Details