Here’s what you need to know: ImagePhuong-Danh Tran, a research associate at the RNA medicines company Arcturus Therapeutics in San Diego, conducting research on a vaccine for the coronavirus.Credit…Bing Guan/Reuters Russian hackers have been using spear-phishing and malware to target U.S., British and Canadian groups. Russian hackers are attempting to steal coronavirus vaccine research, the…
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When the Indian fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee debuted his fine jewelry at Bergdorf Goodman in January, he had big plans for promoting his collection. But the coronavirus outbreak forced him and the luxury department-store chain to make some big adjustments. Social-distancing rules in New York, for example, meant browsing at the Fifth Avenue store had…
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NEW DELHI — The Bangladeshi authorities have arrested the owner of a hospital who they said had sold migrant workers thousands of certificates showing a negative result on coronavirus tests, when in fact many tests were never performed. The authorities said they caught the hospital owner on Wednesday trying to sneak across the border into…
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Everyone the world over knows that travel has drastically changed. For many, the simple idea of travel is fraught, regardless of the current restrictions and border closures. But others still feel the need to get away, drawn to the appeal and respite of new — or familiar — sights and sounds and experiences. A few…
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The Italians have a wonderful expression for how our lives get upended when we least expect it: “lupus in fabula.” It means “the wolf in the fairy tale.” Just when life is going swimmingly, along comes a demon, a dragon, a diagnosis, a downsizing. Just when our fairy tale seems poised to come true, a…
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Jill Wenger, the founder of the boutique Totokaelo, described her former customers like this: “Mature. Women that were not interested in doing what everyone else was doing and looking like everyone else. They definitely had a distinct point of view. A lot of them were old punk rock.” These were the shoppers in the early…
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FaZe Clan, an esports lifestyle conglomerate, helped turn gamers into a new class of social media influencers. Now, several top executives behind FaZe Clan are leaving to start a competing organization called XSET. Since its founding in 2010, FaZe Clan has grown from a team of Call of Duty players to a multipronged media company,…
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My 24-year-old son and I bicker constantly over politics. He thinks I’m hypnotized by Fox News. I’m not, but I’m not impressed by his knee-jerk liberal positions either. I never doubted our love for each other. But when Covid-19 came, he began accusing his stepfather and me of not taking the virus seriously. (We’ve always…
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Have you thought about what you’d like your life to look like when you’re 84? When a leading health system leader put that question to Lewis A. Lipsitz, MD, Director, Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Lipsitz published an essay in…
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In the largest international study of its kind, researchers at the University of Alberta and Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital found that an accelerated renal-replacement therapy strategy did not reduce mortality after three months, compared to a standard strategy for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury. The Standard vs. Accelerated Initiation of Renal Replacement Therapy…
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