Health

For months, Ramesh Balwani’s lawyers have tried to distinguish him from Elizabeth Holmes, his former girlfriend and business partner at the failed blood-testing company Theranos. Ms. Holmes was found guilty of defrauding the start-up’s investors in January. Mr. Balwani is seeking a different outcome in his own fraud trial. But on Tuesday, in closing statements …

Closing Statements Begin in Trial of Elizabeth Holmes’s Ex-Boyfriend Read More »

As the Covid death rate worldwide has fallen to its lowest level since the early weeks of the pandemic in 2020, it may be tempting to conclude that the coronavirus is becoming irreversibly milder. That notion fits with a widespread belief that all viruses start off nasty and inevitably evolve to become gentler over time. …

Think All Viruses Get Milder with Time? Not This Rabbit-Killer Read More »

It’s a moment many parents have anxiously awaited for months: Children younger than age 5 are now eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus, among the last Americans to qualify. Without access to vaccines, parents of young children have confronted nearly impossible choices since the pandemic began. Many children were kept from schools, family gatherings and …

Vaccines for Young Children Are Coming, but Many Parents Have Tough Questions Read More »

Scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting on Saturday to decide whether the benefits of Covid vaccines outweigh the risks for children under 5, the last Americans to qualify for the shots. The meeting, which will be streamed live here, is scheduled to begin at 10 am Eastern time. The …

CDC Is Expected to Recommend Vaccines for Young Children Read More »

Something was wrong with the foxes. That was what callers to the Dane County Humane Society in Wisconsin kept saying in April, as they reported fox kits, or young foxes, behaving in strange ways: shaking, seizing or struggling to stand. The kits, which were often lethargic and wandering by themselves, also seemed unusually easy to …

Avian Influenza Is Affecting Wild Mammals Read More »

For Jacqueline Almeida, next week cannot come soon enough. She has watched friends roll their eyes when she asked to meet them outdoors. She has tried unsuccessfully to convince her sister to vaccinate her son. She was told by strangers on Twitter that putting her daughter in a mask was tantamount to child abuse. And …

A Better Way to Measure Immunity in Children Read More »

This year Father’s Day will fall on June 19, or Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved Black people in the United States after the Civil War. And for Michael D. Hannon, an associate professor of counseling at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, that is “an awesome coincidence.” “We can celebrate Black …

Navigating Fatherhood as a Black Man Read More »

Abbott Nutrition, which worsened a baby formula shortage in the United States when it temporarily shut down a Michigan plant in February because of the presence of bacteria, said it had again stopped production at the plant, this time because of flooding during a severe storm. The company said on Wednesday that it was forced …

Abbott Baby Formula Plant Again Stops Production, This Time Because of Flooding Read More »

WASHINGTON – The only Americans still not eligible for coronavirus vaccines – babies, toddlers and preschoolers – appear on the verge of finally getting cleared to receive them after an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday to recommend the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for the group. The FDA appears …

FDA Panel Recommends Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines for Younger Children Read More »

Grindr, the social networking app, sent a pop-up message about the risk of monkeypox to millions of European and American users. A sex party organizer in New York asked invitees to check themselves for lesions before showing up. And the organizers of the city’s main Pride celebrations posted a monkeypox notice Sunday on their Instagram …

Monkeypox Is Spreading in New York, Making Urgent Education Read More »