I Sent My Doctor a Selfie. Intentionally.

Larissa Jensen, the global beauty industry adviser at the research firm Circana, said the rise of these platforms is driven by consumers who are highly educated about ingredients and who have helped boost “clinical” skin care —- that is, brands started by dermatologists, aestheticians and other experts — over “natural” brands, formulated from naturally derived…

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New Gene Editing Treatment Cuts Dangerous Cholesterol in Small Study

The handful of patients had severe heart disease that had caused chest pain and heart attacks. After trying available cholesterol-lowering medications, they could not get their cholesterol as low as cardiologists recommended. So they volunteered for an experimental cholesterol-lowering treatment using gene editing that was unlike anything tried in patients before. The result, reported Sunday…

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A Perfect Lasagna

Good morning. At last, it’s oven weather where I stay. I set the thermostat low, put on a sweater under my apron and get to work: a Guinness pie, say, or a braised leg of lamb? Better yet, a perfect lasagna (above). Regina Schrambling wrote the recipe more than 20 years ago after studying scores…

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