Fast food chains have tried for years to woo health-conscious diners by mixing lighter fare like salads and yogurt with the usual burgers, fried chicken and shakes. But as menus swelled over the past three decades with grilled chicken wraps (McDonald’s) and “fresco” burritos (Taco Bell), many options grew in size and the calories and…
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COLORADO SPRINGS — The last thing Morgan Stickney remembers from before her lower leg was amputated is lying on a hospital gurney waiting for the anesthesia to take hold. With a debilitating fear racing through her mind, she asked her surgeon to hold her hand. They talked about swimming until she passed out. “It’s the…
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — There’s a new war raging in health care, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake and thousands of lives in the balance. The battle, pitting drug companies against doctors and patient advocates, is being fought over the unlikeliest of substances: human excrement. The clash is over the future of fecal microbiota…
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LONDON — Beginning this summer, women and girls at hospitals across England will be offered free tampons and other sanitary products, health officials announced on Sunday, in what advocates called “a big step forward” in the effort to end period poverty. The decision by N.H.S. England comes less than a year after the British Medical…
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The Valentino fall/winter 2019 show is about to begin. Catch all the action, from start to finish, below. Justine Carreon Justine Carreon is the market editor at ELLE.com covering fashion, Dutch ovens, and fashion again.
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PARIS — On Saturday in Paris the barricades went up at the foot of the Champs-Élysées, as they have every weekend since November, in anticipation of the marching of the “Yellow Vests” and their economic protest. The stretch of avenues from the Tuileries through the Place de la Concorde and the Élysée Palace to the…
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Image Ronan, left, and Erwan Bouroullec, with a model of the fountains they have designed for the traffic circle on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.CreditJulien Mignot for The New York Times PARIS — When the colorful, fantastical fountains by Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle were unveiled in 1983 beside the Georges Pompidou Center, many…
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PARIS — After holding immersive Tommy Now extravaganzas from New York to Los Angeles, London and Shanghai, Tommy Hilfiger rolled into Paris on Saturday night to be host of a runway show in the global capital of fashion for the first time in his five-decade career. “We have taken our see-now, buy-now show concept all…
DetailsMany people consider logging everything that they eat to be a tedious task. However, this effective weight-loss technique takes much less time than most people think, according to a recent study. Tracking what you eat more regularly appears to increase weight loss. Obesity is now a common health issue. According to the Centers for Disease…
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