Spring is here — and if you’re among the estimated one in four adults in the United States who suffer from seasonal allergies, your sneezing and scratching may have already started. With climate change affecting temperatures and plant growth, you may need to be on the lookout earlier than ever before. It can be hard…
With tree pollen counts already hitting peak levels in some parts of the United States, now is the time to start preparing for — and treating — your spring allergy symptoms. But before you head to a pharmacy, consider some measures you can take at home. And if you do need to resort to medication,…
The contestants warmed up with stretches and squats in front of City Hall, carefully repositioned croissants and glasses on their trays and tightened their aprons as pop music blared from loudspeakers. Then, they were off. On Sunday, for the first time in over a decade, Paris revived a tradition: an annual race of cafe and…
Good morning. If you make biscuits (above) today — and you ought to — they ought to be terrific. But if you make biscuits today and do so again next weekend and the weekend after and the weekend after that, they will be terrific, the best biscuits ever. This is a matter of practice related…
Most people, study after study shows, don’t take the medicines prescribed for them. It doesn’t matter what they are — statins, high blood pressure drugs, drugs to lower blood sugar, asthma drugs. Either patients never start taking them, or they stop. It’s a problem that doctors call nonadherence — the common human tendency to resist…
Set between the Colosseum and the tracks leading to Termini station, Rome’s Esquilino neighborhood occupies the Esquiline Hill, one of the city’s seven ancient mounds. In the Roman era, it served as a paupers’ cemetery. In the late 19th century, much of the neighborhood was razed to make room for a bourgeois residential district populated…
Most people, study after study shows, don’t take the medicines prescribed for them. It doesn’t matter what they are — statins, high blood pressure drugs, drugs to lower blood sugar, asthma drugs. Either patients never start taking them, or they stop. It’s a problem that doctors call nonadherence — the common human tendency to resist…
Cancer is not just an intrusive, malignant replication of cells that “lives desperately, inventively, fiercely, territorially, casually, and defensively” in the body, as Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote in “The Emperor of All Maladies,” but it always carries with it a whiff of death. At its best, cancer is something to be vigilant about and to contain….
I started buying eggs by the 30-pack in quarantine and never stopped. If there’s eggs in the fridge, I can put dinner on the table: baked eggs, eggs kejriwal, kimchi eggs, romesco eggs. (For context, there’s only two of us in this household. We just really love eggs.) “Everyone loves a shakshuka moment” was more…
Have you ever been told you have the gift of gab? Did your school report cards suggest you pipe down in class? Perhaps you’ve been called a chatterbox on an occasion or two? If you answered yes to one or more of those questions, you might be a yapper. Terms like yapper, yap and yapping…
