Why It Matters: Poverty is a big killer. In 2019, more than 8 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty, subsisting on less than $2.15 per day, and about half the world on less than $6.85 per day. Poverty has insidious effects on housing stability, education, health and life expectancy. The pandemic drove … Read more
El bebé de Sherri Willis-Prater tenía dos meses de nacido y ella estaba a punto de regresar a trabajar en la cafetería de una escuela de Chicago. Pero cuando una noche subió el pequeño tramo de escaleras para ir a la cocina, casi se desploma, jadeando para respirar. En el hospital, a Willis-Prater, quien en … Read more
Similar scenes played out across the country this spring as medical, dental and physical therapy students assembled to offer tributes to whole-body donors and their families. At the ceremonies, students perform music, light candles, read letters and share art. (A heart diagram from Ms. Zhang’s anatomy studies, overlaid with her whimsical drawings of books, tree … Read more
Every morning, as millions of Americans light up the gas stoves in their kitchens to heat some water or griddle their hash browns, they aren’t just sending delicious breakfast smells wafting through their homes. The blue flames also emit harmful pollutants like nitrogen dioxides, as well as planet-warming gases. So a team of scientists from Stanford … Read more
Members of the Sackler family, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma, will receive full immunity from all civil legal claims — current and future — over their role in the company’s prescription opioids business, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Tuesday. The ruling gives the family the sweeping protection that it has been demanding … Read more
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced entrepreneur who was convicted of defrauding investors at her failed blood testing start-up Theranos, is expected to report to a federal prison in Texas on Tuesday to begin her 11-year, three-month sentence. Ms. Holmes is expected to report to FPC Bryan, a minimum-security prison camp for women located roughly 90 minutes … Read more
Despite the high hopes for the new tests, there are many questions. Some critics say that a focus on treating younger people is misplaced because they may not comply with taking a statin or another drug for the rest of their lives. It can be difficult for young people to focus on possible threats to … Read more
Two people in the United States have died with probable cases of fungal meningitis and more than 200 others are at risk after an outbreak of the infection among patients who had surgery in Matamoros, Mexico, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. At least 220 people in the United States who … Read more
Sherri Willis-Prater’s baby boy was 2 months old, and she was about to return to her job at a school cafeteria in Chicago. But as she walked up the short flight of stairs to her kitchen one evening, she nearly collapsed, gasping for breath. At the hospital, Ms. Willis-Prater, who was 42 at the time, … Read more
After a woman gives birth, the baby’s well-being usually becomes the focus of family attention, and the mother’s health often recedes as a priority. Many busy new mothers don’t make it to their postpartum visit with an obstetrician or midwife, even though recent medical guidelines say they should do so within three weeks of the … Read more