A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday that the benefits of making a birth control pill available without a prescription outweigh the risks, a significant step in the decades-long push to make oral contraception obtainable over the counter in the United States. If the F.D.A. approves nonprescription sales…
DetailsF.D.A. advisers voted that the benefits of a nonprescription pill outweigh the risks. If the agency decides to move on the recommendation, the progestin-only contraceptive could be in stores within a few months.
Asparagus season sneaks up on me every year. I anticipate it so hungrily, so ardently, that I have to put it out of my head as May approaches. Stay calm, I tell myself on the way to the farmers’ market, asparagus will be here soon enough. Then, suddenly, there it is, in bunches and bunches…
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The Harmony of the Seas cruise ship, one of the biggest in the world, with its multiple-deck water slides, zip line and surf simulators, is a favorite among families. But the discovery of a hidden camera in a public bathroom during a recent sailing has many passengers questioning their enthusiasm after the F.B.I. said that…
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After Nike announced that it would not move forward with his lucrative sneaker deal, the artist Tom Sachs apologized in a statement to The New York Times for his treatment of former staff members in his studio. “These past few months have been a time of overdue reflection,” Sachs said. “It has been painful but…
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The Met Gala for dogs, otherwise known as the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, took place on Tuesday. Best in show went to Buddy Holly, a “fetchingly bewhiskered” petit basset griffon Vendéen. Although our Most Styles-ish roundups usually highlight adventurous fashion moments among humans, we decided to extend the same courtesy to our canine compatriots on…
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Five years ago, a small group of cancer scientists meeting at a restaurant in a deconsecrated church hospital in Mainz, Germany, drew up an audacious plan: They would test their novel cancer vaccine against one of the most virulent forms of the disease, a cancer notorious for roaring back even in patients whose tumors had…
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The team at Chanel has been busy, to say the least. Between staging the Met’s new Costume Institute exhibit honoring Karl Lagerfeld, longtime creative director, dressing a bevy of stars including house ambassadors Penélope Cruz and Blackpink’s Jennie for the Met Gala, and opening a brand-spanking-new 30,000 square-foot store in Beverly Hills, the quintessential French…
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In the opening monologue of “Queen Charlotte,” Netflix’s new “Bridgerton” prequel, the title character imagines being impaled by her whalebone corset. “If I move too much, I might be sliced and stabbed to death by my undergarments,” Charlotte, played by India Amarteifio, tells her brother with a scowl. The series’s characters are constricted by their…
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More than 20 years after scientists first released a draft sequence of the human genome, the book of life has been given a long-overdue rewrite. A more accurate and inclusive edition of our genetic code was published on Wednesday, marking a major step toward a deeper understanding of human biology and personalized medicine for people…
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