Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spoken of an “existential threat” that he said can destroy the nation. “We have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world,” Mr. Kennedy said at a hearing in January before the Senate confirmed him as the secretary of Health and Human Services. And on Monday he…
Blanca, the Brooklyn tasting counter that since 2012 has served rarefied and highly individual cooking under the glassy stare of a taxidermic tuna head, will close at the end of the week. Carlo Mirarchi, one of the owners and the original chef, said that the landlord had decided not to renew the lease on Blanca’s…
It was gray and drizzly in Houston — a perfect day to be sucked into an alternate universe. A mysterious statue of a bearded man encrusted head to toe in pastel shells, barnacles and other sea life caught the attention of two visitors. One of them, a young boy, uttered a few words into a…
André Soltner, the influential French chef who died at 92 in January, was remembered warmly by family and friends for his frugal habits, though a memorial to celebrate him on Saturday afternoon in Manhattan was anything but. A 16-piece orchestra perched above the cathedral-size ballroom at 583 Park Avenue welcomed guests to their gilt chairs…
Thousands of pounds of liquid egg substitutes sold under two popular brand names have been recalled because of the potential risk of contamination with a cleaning solution, federal safety regulators said. Cargill Kitchen Solutions in Lake Odessa, Mich., recalled about 212,268 pounds of products under its Egg Beaters and Bob Evans labels because they may…
Good morning. I took a walk through the flower district of Manhattan the other day, West 28th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. The sidewalk was impossibly crowded with people and plants and cuttings. A seller picked up a pot of grass by its leaves and the pot dropped to the ground, revealing its roots….
The measles crisis in West Texas has claimed the life of another child, the second death in an outbreak that has burned through the region and infected dozens of residents in bordering states. The eight-year-old girl died of “measles pulmonary failure” at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, according to records obtained by The New York…
Etsy has been flooded with hats and candles asking the question: “Has Anyone Seen My Lorazepam?” Social media is rife with videos of people enunciating “lorazepam” in a faux Southern drawl. Lorazepam even made a cameo on a recent episode of “Saturday Night Live,” when the actress Chloe Fineman raucously shouted the word during a…
Dr. Howard Luks didn’t think much about agility — the ability to move quickly while changing speed and direction — until movements that used to come easily became more challenging. Dr. Luks, 61, works as an orthopedic surgeon and is an avid trail runner and climber. During his outdoor workouts, he began to struggle with…
Until this year, Dr. Leila Myrick had never seen a case of measles. She doesn’t remember professors in medical school talking about the virus. When she saw photos of the characteristic red rash on practice board exams, she flipped back through her textbooks to figure out what it was. “Most practicing doctors, in today’s day…