Month: August 2019

A new TV Show from The New York Times on FX and Hulu. View original article Contributor:

The daughter of Indian immigrants went to M.I.T. and worked at Bain & Company before founding ClassPass. View original article Contributor:

Shabbat is a still point in our chaotic world, exactly the sanctuary my son needs it to be. View original article Contributor:

Test your knowledge of this week’s health news. View original article Contributor:

A third of U.S. adults are so stressed by the prospect of mass shootings that they avoid visiting certain places or attending certain events, according to a new survey from the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Harris Poll. The survey, released shortly after a pair of mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, … Read more

For its first few years on the market, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was approved only for young girls. Over time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has broadened its approval to include boys, as well as adults up to age 45—allowing more people to get the cancer-preventing vaccine, but also breeding confusion about … Read more

For families with food allergies, micro-managing daily life to avoid accidentally consuming the wrong food can be a huge burden. They scour labels. They avoid restaurants. They ban their kids from birthday parties, or refuse to enter sports stadiums, worrying that peanut shells littering the ground could trigger life-ending anaphylaxis. The resulting angst has driven … Read more

For many of Dr. Google’s most anxious patients–the ones who consult WebMD’s Symptom Checker more often than the weather report–Lisa Sanders is a household name. A physician and author based at the Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Sanders has been writing a column called “Diagnosis” for the New York Times Magazine since 2002. Each edition … Read more