Tag: Fitness
Medicare Tries to Combat Fraud. Now Insurers Are Fighting Back.
“How’s the knee?” one bowler asked another across the lanes. Their conversation in a Super Bowl ad focused on a Biden administration proposal...
DNA From Beethoven’s Hair Unlocks Medical and Family Secrets
It was March 1827 and Ludwig van Beethoven was dying. As he lay in bed, wracked with abdominal pain and jaundiced, grieving friends...
U.S. Organ Transplant System, Troubled by Long Wait Times, Faces an...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it seeks to break up the network that has long run the nation’s organ...
Why Are Public Restrooms Still So Rare?
When a visiting friend asked if I wanted to go on a run in Philadelphia, I did a lot of planning. Not just...
Warren Boroson, Who Surveyed Psychiatrists on Goldwater, Dies at 88
Warren Boroson, a journalist who conducted a survey of psychiatrists that declared the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, Barry M. Goldwater, mentally unfit to...
Report of Wuhan Market Samples Found Covid and Raccoon Dog Genetic...
On Jan. 12, 2020, Chinese investigators combing a market for clues about the outbreak of a mysterious new illness in the city of...
Overlooked No More: Lilian Lindsay, Britain’s First Female Dentist
When the headmistress at the North London Collegiate School told Lilian Lindsay that she should become a teacher, and that she would block...
The Surgeon General’s New Mission: Adolescent Mental Health
In December 2021, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a rare warning: Mental health challenges were leading to “devastating effects” among young people. His...
‘We Were Helpless’: Despair at the CDC as the Covid Pandemic...
In early March 2020, as the nation succumbed to a pandemic, a group of young scientists walked out of the Centers for Disease...
Candida Auris, a Deadly Fungus, Spread Rapidly During Pandemic, CDC Says
A deadly fungus that is considered an urgent public health threat by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spread at an “alarming...
