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
One survey found that cranberry sauce and turkey are the most-disliked Thanksgiving foods. Placating Picky Palates There’s always one at the table. You know, the person who while everyone else was chowing down on turkey and yams on Thanksgiving... News 03 Dec 2021 | 11:33
The author with a patient using the IrisVision assistive technology. Photo courtesy of Lighthouse Guild OT Can Help People With Visual Impairments Occupational therapy, commonly called OT, is a form of therapy for people with temporary or permanent disabilities that uses... News 02 Dec 2021 | 02:57
Perfecting COVID Pills That giant whoooshing sound you heard last Thursday was not an approaching Atlantic hurricane. It was the global sigh of... News 05 Nov 2021 | 11:59
Students return to school in Ozone Park, Queens on September 21, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Mono-Mania Remember high school? Remember your first kiss? Remember the follow up: Friends with mono, better known as the kissing disease?... News 29 Oct 2021 | 11:04
Blueberries and blackberries have high antioxidant values. Feeding an Aging Brain Once upon a time, neurologists believed that after a certain age, say, 30, your brain would begin to shrink, taking your... News 06 Oct 2021 | 01:05
Janice M. Horowitz, author of “Health Your Self: What’s Really Driving Your Care and How to Take Charge.” Photo courtesy of Janice Horowitz Down the Medical Rabbit Hole It’s hard to believe that laughing could send me deep into a medical maze. But so it did about a year ago one night in March.... News 22 Sep 2021 | 11:53
Dr. Ashutosh K. Tewari, chair of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Photo courtesy of Mount Sinai Conversation is the Strongest Medicine Against Prostate Cancer One of the serious “side effects” of the pandemic is disruption of other medical care, including screening for prostate,... News 18 Sep 2021 | 10:49
