BY MANDY OAKLANDER JUNE 6, 2019 Plastics have for years been used to make nearly everything that surrounds us. But along the way, they escaped the confines of packaging and objects and settled in the environment, the food we eat and the air [...]
BY JAMIE DUCHARME JUNE 3, 2019 It’s a Wednesday evening in Brooklyn, NY, and bars are dead. Tea-candle-dotted tables sit empty, waiting for a happy hour rush that isn’t. But tucked away on a side street, hours before its midnight closing time, a [...]
BY HEATHER BANKOS 9:22 AM EDT This spring, 31-year-old Heather Bankos donated her uterus through a research program at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, becoming about the 70th woman to do so worldwide. Bankos does not know the identity of her recipient, [...]
BY MARKHAM HEID MAY 29, 2019 Way back in the late 1990s—not long after home Internet use became widespread in the U.S.—researchers started turning up links between time spent on computers and poor mental health. A 1998 study in the journal CyberPsychology and Behavior found heavy [...]
BY ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN JULY 1, 2015 The effects of having a few drinks can differ person to person, but often people may not realize just how risky their drinking patterns are, or what that alcohol is doing to them under the hood. There [...]
SIDE HUSTLE SCRUBS, MD|PHYSICIAN | OCTOBER 18, 2018 I want you to do me a favor. Pretend we’re meeting each other for the first time. You have to describe who you are in 10 words or less without mentioning any relationship to another [...]
BY ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN JULY 5, 2017 Exercise is just as good for the brain as it is for the body, a growing body of research is showing. And one kind in particular—aerobic exercise—appears to be king. “Back in the day, the majority of exercise studies [...]
LINDA GIRGIS, MD | PHYSICIAN | OCTOBER 9, 2018 Recently, my inbox has been overfilled with offers for programs, yoga, meditation, and a whole host of mindfulness training opportunities to combat physician burnout. I think by now everyone knows that doctors are fighting [...]
ByElizabeth BernsteinApril 2, 2018 10:12 a.m. ET You’re feeling depressed. What have you been eating? Psychiatrists and therapists don’t often ask this question. But a growing body of research over the past decade shows that a healthy diet—high in fruits, vegetables, [...]
The New England Journal of Medicine TO THE EDITOR For 30 years, end-of-life experts, including bioethicists1 and clinical researchers,2 have maintained that dying without artificial hydration is more comfortable than having dehydration relieved by intravenous fluids. The review article by Lowell (Jan. 31 [...]