Shopping for Desk Lamps

Since the pandemic struck, improvised home offices have been put through their paces. If your work-from-home setup is ready for an upgrade, the right desk lamp is a good place to start. Beyond providing light exactly where it’s needed, “the task light becomes one of the things that creates your little work office at home,”…

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Indian Designer Manish Arora’s Downfall

In September, Manish Arora, a fashion designer once described as the “John Galliano of India,” announced that he was creating a pop-up restaurant in Paris, his adopted hometown, for the Holi festival. An Instagram slide show, featuring the brightly colored maximalism that is the Indian designer’s signature, depicted Mr. Arora with assorted friends sampling traditional…

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Low levels of choline in pregnant Black American women associated with higher levels of stress

AURORA, Colo. (November 16, 2020) – Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found that many pregnant Black Americans have low levels of choline, an essential nutrient that aids in prenatal brain development. Stress caused by institutional racism may play a role. The study, out now in Schizophrenia Bulletin, also found that…

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Preventing heart disease should be a priority for people with Type 2 diabetes

DALLAS, Nov. 16, 2020 — Even when risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease are optimally controlled, adults with Type 2 diabetes still have a greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease compared to the general population, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association’s flagship journal Circulation. “Previous studies have shown that people…

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