Category: Health & Wellbeing

Some patients could be living with the aftereffects for years to come. Recent research into another persistent, mysterious disease might help us understand how to…

View More What If You Never Get Better From Covid-19?

A Times reporter caught the coronavirus during the New York City outbreak last April. But the acute phase of the illness was just the beginning.A…

View More My ‘Long Covid’ Nightmare: Still Sick After 6 Months

Researchers have banded together to find safe, virtual ways to teach the principles of microbiology and epidemiology.Researchers have banded together to find safe, virtual ways…

View More Amid One Pandemic, Students Train for the Next

Something about some men just makes it difficult to keep that mask where it should be.Something about some men just makes it difficult to keep…

View More Is Mask-Slipping the New Manspreading?

As alcohol consumption increased, so did the risk of the potentially fatal heart rhythm disorder.As alcohol consumption increased, so did the risk of the potentially…

View More Just One Drink a Day May Increase Risk of Atrial Fibrillation

Pregnant women with blood pressure readings above 140/90 had deficits on tests of mental agility 15 years later.Pregnant women with blood pressure readings above 140/90…

View More Hypertension During Pregnancy Tied to Later Cognitive Decline

Seeing a shot go in someone’s arm is largely devoid of drama, but the surrounding choreography and presentation of the moment can be fascinating.Seeing a…

View More The Strange Voyeurism of Watching Someone Else Get Vaccinated

He predicted the “worst is yet to come” in the pandemic and expressed frustration with the politicization of mask-wearing and mitigation efforts.He predicted the “worst…

View More Exit Interview: C.D.C. Head Redfield Reflects on His Time on the Job