Tag Archives: health

Make Ice Ornaments At Home

At the close of a bruising winter, find ephemeral beauty with these easy-to-make homemade ice suncatchers. These mini ice sculptures, which you can fill with berries, seeds, leaves, sliced fruit or even materials from the craft box, reflect the light, like momentary, sun-catching crystals. You can make them and freeze them outside, in suitably cold […]

Can Long-Term Care Employers Require Staff Members to Be Vaccinated?

She endorses reimbursing staff members for time and expenses. But, she noted: “There’s good evidence from behavioral economics that offering money signals taking risks. These vaccines really are safe and effective, so we don’t want to solidify people’s fears.” Although Covid-19 cases and deaths are falling in long-term facilities, even those with high vaccination rates […]

Coronavirus Vaccine and BMI? Yes You Should Get Vaccinated.

Rebecca O’Neal didn’t believe she qualified for a Covid-19 vaccine. She had not realized that her turn had come. Last week, when she scrolled through the eligibility requirements for the state of New York, she noticed body mass index on the list. Body mass index, or B.M.I., is technically a measure of obesity. The quantifier […]

Cómo funciona la vacuna contra la COVID-19 de Oxford-AstraZeneca

La Universidad de Oxford se asoció con la empresa británico-sueca AstraZeneca para desarrollar y probar una vacuna contra el coronavirus conocida como ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 o AZD1222. En los ensayos clínicos se comprobó que la vacuna tenía una eficacia del 82,4 por ciento cuando se administraban dos dosis con un intervalo de 12 semanas. A pesar […]

Cómo funciona la vacuna contra la COVID-19 de Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson está probando una vacuna contra el coronavirus conocida como JNJ-78436735 o Ad26.COV2.S. Los ensayos clínicos demostraron que una sola dosis de la vacuna tenía una tasa de eficacia de hasta el 72 por ciento. La vacuna ha sido autorizada para su uso de emergencia en Estados Unidos y Baréin. Janssen Pharmaceutica, una […]

David Mintz, Whose Tofutti Made Bean Curd Cool, Dies at 89

After graduating from a Lubavitcher Yeshiva high school in Crown Heights, he attended Brooklyn College, briefly sold mink stoles, and ran a bungalow colony in the Catskills, where he opened a deli. It was after he opened his Manhattan restaurant, he said in one of many versions of the story, that “a Jewish hippie” tipped […]