Scrolling past dozens of baby carriers online, I couldn’t find one that would allow me to strap an infant to my chest using only one hand. In a few months, my wife, Lisa, would give birth to our first child, and I was searching for the perfect carrier to ease my anxiety as an expectant […]
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A nasty cold hit New York City and much of the country this summer. It arrived just when life seemed good again. Or at least when life seemed like it maybe could become good again. It was that halcyon window of summer — after vaccine second doses but before “breakthrough” and “Delta variant” had fully […]
I met Mr. Kale on the checkout line at Whole Foods in TriBeCa more than two years ago. It was in the cards — sort of. A few hours earlier, my friend, Stephanie, had told me on the phone that she was now a practicing Wiccan — a modern witch who dabbled in “white magic,” […]
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 […]
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 […]