After a year of virtual gathering, getting back to real-life relationships can be intimidating. These eight simple exercises can help. As we move through the spring of The Great Vaccination, many of us are feeling cautious optimism, and also its flip side: creeping dread. Maybe you have a sense of ambivalence about how to interact …
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Health Care as Infrastructure
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Health care makes some surprising appearances in President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, even though more health proposals are expected in a second proposal later this month. The bill that would help rebuild roads, bridges and broadband capabilities also includes $400 billion to help …
Has the Era of Overzealous Cleaning Finally Come to an End?
This week, the C.D.C. acknowledged what scientists have been saying for months: The risk of catching the coronavirus from surfaces is low. When the coronavirus began to spread in the United States last spring, many experts warned of the danger posed by surfaces. Researchers reported that the virus could survive for days on plastic or …
What Are Neopronouns?
Are you a person, place or thing? We have good news. A personal pronoun is a form of speech that stands in for a person or group of people. She is having opinions online; they are fighting in the comments; and, of course, as in the Prince song made famous by Sinead O’Connor, “Nothing Compares …
Covid-19 or Allergies?
Should I Have Spoken Up?
A reader wonders what she could have done to stop some troubling behavior she saw at a vaccine site. While waiting in a long line to get my Covid-19 vaccination, I noticed two boisterous white men ahead of me. At first I chalked up their noise to excitement. But as I waited, I realized they …
Music Therapy: Why Doctors Use it to Help Patients Cope
Music therapy is increasingly used to help patients cope with stress and promote healing. “Focus on the sound of the instrument,” Andrew Rossetti, a licensed music therapist and researcher said as he strummed hypnotic chords on a Spanish-style classical guitar. “Close your eyes. Think of a place where you feel safe and comfortable.” Music therapy …
We Weren’t Meant to Grieve Alone
We’ve been deprived of the last moments with loved ones and in-person gatherings to mourn together. What can we do to heal? Swans do it, chimps do it; even elephants and whales do it. They fall in love and then after their beloved dies, they grieve. Human beings differ only to the extent that we …
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Calls Mount for Biden to Track US Health Care Worker Deaths from Covid
Calls are mounting for the Biden administration to set up a national tracking system of covid-19 deaths among front-line health care workers to honor the thousands of nurses, doctors and support staffers who have died and ensure that future generations are not forced to make the same ultimate — and, in many cases, needless — …
12 Months of Trauma: More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died in Covid’s First Year
More than 3,600 U.S. health care workers perished in the first year of the pandemic, according to “Lost on the Frontline,” a 12-month investigation by The Guardian and KHN to track such deaths. Lost on the Frontline is the most complete accounting of U.S. health care worker deaths. The federal government has not comprehensively tracked …
‘Go Ahead and Vote Me Out’: What Other Places Can Learn From Santa Rosa’s Tent City
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — They knew the neighborhood would revolt. It was early May, and officials in this Northern California city known for its farm-to-table dining culture and pumped-up housing prices were frantically debating how to keep covid-19 from infiltrating the homeless camps proliferating in the region’s celebrated parks and trails. For years, the number …
How Barely-There Botox Became the Norm
Will starting injections in your 20s and 30s make you look older? Preventive Botox explained. Forget what you think you know about Botox. Once considered the not-so-secret tool of celebrities and the wealthy with a bad rap for freezing faces, the wrinkle-melting injections have become a commonplace activity of a normie class with money to …
What Is Normal Life?
And when will we get back to it? Want to get the At Home newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here. Welcome. What constitutes a return to “normal” life? Is it when schools and offices are open consistently? When we’ve reached herd immunity? When we no longer wear masks in the supermarket? On planes? (Will …
Is ‘Femtech’ the Next Big Thing in Health Care?
Start-ups and tech companies are creating products to address women’s health care needs. It’s still a small segment of the market, but growing. This article is part of our new series on the Future of Health Care, which examines changes in the medical field. Women represent half of the planet’s population. Yet tech companies catering …
Lecciones históricas sobre la resiliencia
Los brotes generalizados de enfermedades tienen el potencial de sacudir a las sociedades para que adopten nuevas formas de vida. Hace cinco años, decidí escribir una novela ambientada en las secuelas de una terrible pandemia. La novela era una historia alternativa, un western revisionista ambientado en el siglo XIX, y acabé investigando en abundancia sobre …
Born to Be Lazy? What Bears Can Teach Us About Our Exercise Habits
Scientists have found that grizzlies, like people, seem to choose the path of least resistance. Grizzly bears move across landscapes in much the same way as most people do, favoring flat paths over slopes and gentle speeds over sprints, according to a remarkable new study of grizzlies and how their outdoor lives compare to ours. …
Opportunities Out of the Tragedies of the Pandemic
When life is disrupted by crisis, some people see opportunities — for change, action, introspection — they might not otherwise. This article is part of a series on resilience in troubled times — what we can learn about it from history and personal experiences. About a year ago, just as the pandemic was hitting New …
Doctor Survived Cambodia’s Killing Fields, but Not Covid
Linath Lim’s life was shaped by starvation. She was not yet 13 when the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia and ripped her family apart. The totalitarian regime sent her and four siblings to work camps, where they planted rice and dug irrigation canals from sunrise to sunset — each surviving on two ladles of …
Events of 2020 Moved Medical Students to Political Activism
Inam Sakinah and her classmates will forever be known as the students who started medical school during the 2020 covid-19 pandemic. All of them had prepared for this step for years, taking hours of hard science classes in college, studying for the medical school admissions test and often volunteering, working or even getting master’s or …
California Counties a Hodgepodge of Highs and Lows in Vaccinating Vulnerable Seniors
Even as California prepares to expand vaccine eligibility on April 15 to all residents age 16 and up, the state has managed to inoculate only about half its senior population — the 65-and-older target group deemed most vulnerable to death and serious illness in the pandemic. Overall, nearly 56% of California seniors have received the …
Covid Victims Remembered Through Their Objects
The special project “What Loss Looks Like” presents personal artifacts belonging to those who have left us and explores what they mean to those left behind. Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. As the art director of the Well desk, I’ve …
What Loss Looks Like: Times Readers Share Artifacts of Remembrance
One in three Americans has lost someone to the coronavirus. “Those We’ve Lost” is a special series by The Times designed to put names and faces to the numbers. We also spoke to people the pandemic left behind. During this season of grief, you may be looking for ways to begin healing. We gathered advice …
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Relieved About a Friend’s Failure’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words Looking for Someone, Maybe You My boss at the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS wanted me to meet Susan. He said that she, a hardworking designer, needed to get out more. Imagining that meant “couldn’t get a date,” I felt more resigned …
Para este enfermero de cuidados paliativos, la vacuna de covid llegó demasiado tarde
SOBRE NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL Noticias en español es una sección de Kaiser Health News que contiene traducciones de artículos de gran interés para la comunidad hispanohablante, y contenido original enfocado en la población hispana que vive en los Estados Unidos. Use Nuestro Contenido Este contenido puede usarse de manera gratuita (detalles). Antonio Espinoza amaba a …