How Hospitals Fuel Climate Change Winston Choi-SchagrinReporting on environmental health 🌎 It may be surprising, but the propellant gases in an inhaler or in anesthetic are greenhouse gases. Nitrous oxide, or “laughing gas,” has 300 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide. And the main ingredient in an inhaler is a hydrofluorocarbon, a class of […]
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Find the perfect gift for better living:The 2021 Well Holiday Gift Guide More from the Well newsletter Saying goodbye to ‘Fat Dad’ Nine years ago Dawn Lerman reached out to me with a story about growing up with a chronic dieter. Her father, Al Lerman, was a “Mad Men”-era advertising legend linked with a number […]
The Times is hosting a live audio conversation on Twitter about the coronavirus vaccine and children at 5 p.m. ET on Monday, Nov. 8. To tune in, follow @nytimes and look for a notification at the top of the Twitter app at that time. Click on this link to set up a reminder for the […]
When a devastating second wave of coronavirus infections hit India in the spring, hospitals were overwhelmed with sick patients and crematories struggled to bury the dead as the bodies piled up. Now India is celebrating one its most important holidays — Diwali, the festival of lights — and many fear another wave of infections as […]
Pfizer announced on Friday that its pill to treat Covid-19 had been found in a key clinical trial to be highly effective at preventing severe illness among at-risk people who received the drug soon after they exhibited symptoms. The antiviral pill is the second of its kind to demonstrate efficacy against Covid. It appears to […]
WASHINGTON — The federal government has canceled its contract with a troubled Covid-19 vaccine manufacturer that ruined millions of doses and had to halt production for months after regulators raised serious quality concerns. The decision marks a stark reversal of fortune for the politically connected contractor, Maryland-based Emergent BioSolutions, and an abandonment by the government […]
South Korea said on Thursday that it would hospitalize even asymptomatic high school seniors with Covid if they are taking the country’s high-stakes college entrance exam later this month, as the drive to vaccinate younger people lags and teenagers account for nearly a quarter of all Covid patients. The decision comes as South Korea experiences […]
new video loaded: Young Children Receive First Dose of Covid-19 Vaccine transcript Back transcript Young Children Receive First Dose of Covid-19 Vaccine Across the country, parents and their young children lined up to receive Covid-19 vaccines after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the Pfizer-BioNTech shot for children aged 5 through 11. “Done […]
For the first time at a major United Nations climate conference, human health is emerging as a leading issue, a reframing that brings climate change’s far-reaching and long-lasting effects to the forefront. Although health has been addressed at conferences going back to the first U.N. environmental summit in 1992, never before has it held such […]
For 10 years, I have hosted Thanksgiving for my extended family. My brother and his family always join us. This year, my wife and I were excited to welcome everyone to our new apartment in Manhattan. But my brother dismissed the idea: He said his family, including his wife and teenage daughters, are afraid to […]