Cold and Flu Season is here, and there’s a few things to do to make it less miserable. Photo: Master1035 Freepik How to Beat the Common Cold Achoo! Got a cold? You’re not alone. Your eyes may be the window to your soul but your nose is a door to the rest of your... News 06 Jan 2023 | 02:39
Telemedicine has become everyday normal for patients since COVID. Happy New (Medical) Year Track the history of medicine from leeches to MRNA vaccines, and you will find yourself on a steadily inventive path that... News 29 Dec 2022 | 10:33
Radha Metro-Midkiff, executive director of the Manhattan headquarters of Integral Yoga. Photo courtesy of Integral Yoga Institute Caring for the Spirit as Well as the Body In the words of Sri Swami Satchidananda, a spiritual teacher from India and founder of Integral Yoga, the perfect or divine... News 23 Dec 2022 | 10:30
Alan Alda as Hawkeye and Jamie Farr as Klinger in “M.A.S.H.” Photo: CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Pleasing Prescriptions Are you a serious M*A*S*H fan? If so, you’re likely to remember either the live or repeatedly re-run Season 6 Episode 25... News 16 Dec 2022 | 03:02
Image by prostooleh on Freepik Faithful Friends When is Fido more than a friend? According to the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), when he’s working to “perform... News 02 Dec 2022 | 03:16
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine administered at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan, December 14, 2020. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office The COVID Scoreboard What a difference three years make. On January 21, 2019, when the first U.S. case of COVID 19 was confirmed, we knew literally... News 18 Nov 2022 | 10:37
A post-Paxlovid positive home test. Photo: Michael Oreskes COVID Times Two Here’s the story: You catch COVID, or, more accurately, COVID catches you. Luckily, it’s happening now rather than two years... News 26 Aug 2022 | 08:56
Men at the protest at Foley Square on May 3. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Men and Abortion When it comes to choice, where are the men? If you believe what you’re likely to read, they’re over there on the other side,... News 20 May 2022 | 10:09
A prescription for yogurt. Meet Your Microbiome Remember the last time your doctor prescribed an antibiotic? Chances are a prescription for yogurt came right along with... News 22 Apr 2022 | 02:08
Dr. Gunda Georg of the Department of Medical Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. Photo via University of Minnesota website The Male Pill In the 62 years since The Pill appeared, it has been a resounding success at giving women a way to control fertility. By... News 25 Mar 2022 | 02:25
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (third from right) poses in Union Square with representatives of ten local organizations for which she helped allocate funding. Photo: Abigail Gruskin community organizations Maloney Secures $6.3 Million For 10 Community Organizations Jumbo-sized checks aren’t just for lottery winners or skilled game show contestants; in Manhattan, they’re for organizations... News 24 Mar 2022 | 05:45
Living Safe and Well Alone Live alone? You’re not alone. Several recent surveys show that almost half of all Manhattan tenants are singletons. It’s... News 18 Mar 2022 | 12:06
Washing COVID Away Two years and a lifetime ago, when COVID first burst into our lives, handwashing became the order of the day as we scrubbed... News 26 Jan 2022 | 04:02
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio in early December. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office De Blasio’s Vaccine Mandate Leaves Some Part-Time Workers and Small Business Owners Confused By now, most New Yorkers are aware of former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s employer vaccine mandate, which required that by December... News 07 Jan 2022 | 03:23
Meeting the Morning After At the close of Pandemic Year II, December 31, 2021 was clearly an evening in need of champagne. Lots of champagne. Which... News 30 Dec 2021 | 03:19
