Month: May 2022

After scandals in which doctors let unsupervised assistants operate on patients, the country is becoming one of the first to require cameras in operating rooms. View original article Contributor: John Yoon

When Rachel, a 35-year-old from Colorado, learned four years ago that she was pregnant despite taking birth control pills, she wanted to make sure it didn’t happen again. The stakes were high: in addition to not wanting kids, she has a uterine deformity that makes pregnancy risky. She terminated the pregnancy, then began looking for … Read more

Since the U.S. drug war was declared in 1971, various drugs have been identified as public enemy number one—from crack cocaine, in the 1980s, to prescription opioids in the early 2000s. Today, the primary villain is fentanyl, a synthetic opioid about 50 times more potent than heroin. In 2021, more than 71,000 people in the … Read more

A day after the country reported its first coronavirus outbreak, its leader reported the fatalities and said 187,800 people were in quarantine. View original article Contributor: Choe Sang-Hun

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

Linda Fernandez was 24 and seven weeks pregnant when she walked into an abortion clinic. She took some pills — it was a medical abortion — and then there was … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

The country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, ordered a national lockdown after a subvariant of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus was found in the capital. View original article Contributor: Choe Sang-Hun

Beauty, pain, race and money play out in Miami’s post-surgical recovery houses. View original article Contributor: Sandra E. Garcia

Decidedly anti-sensationalistic, Alison Leiby’s shrewd and funny personal monologue plays downtown. Uptown, a staged reading focuses on a gruesome case. View original article Contributor: Laura Collins-Hughes