Final week, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, chair of the Senate well being committee, referred to as on a authorities watchdog to analyze why insurance coverage corporations are nonetheless charging girls for contraception — a transfer that thrust access to contraceptives back into the spotlight. In a letter to the Government Accountability Office, the senator…

Due to a rental automobile mishap, it was effectively after darkish by the point Catherine Dupree and her father arrived in Canakkale, a metropolis in northwestern Turkey, throughout a trip in 2006. As they drove across the metropolis, attempting in useless to navigate to their lodge (this was effectively earlier than the times of dependable…

If you happen to’ve ever had bother getting a prescription drug, chances are high you’ve run right into a pharmacy profit supervisor. These firms, referred to as P.B.M.s, play a vital however typically hidden function in deciding which medication you will get and the way a lot you’ll personally need to pay. They’re middlemen within…

Should you put on a smartwatch or health tracker, you probably have already got entry to a gradual stream of knowledge about your coronary heart well being. Past fundamental coronary heart fee monitoring, sensible watches and fitness trackers also can measure and monitor coronary heart fee zones, coronary heart fee variability and coronary heart fee…

Immunotherapy has remodeled most cancers remedy. It tinkers with the immune system to assault malignancies which have evaded the physique’s pure defenses. This advance presents an alternative choice to treating most cancers with surgical procedure or chemotherapy and radiation, which might assault wholesome tissue and trigger excessive unintended effects. The remedy just isn’t solely scientifically…

Times Insider explains who we’re and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes collectively. Some writers goal to develop one space of experience over the course of their careers. Anna Holmes has accomplished the other, following her curiosity wherever it leads: politics, relationships, intercourse, ladies and gender points, race, tradition…

Your grandma’s brownies, the scent of rain on a pine forest, a whiff of cardamom — smells could be highly effective time machines, unlocking recollections virtually like magic and transporting you to particular moments extra vividly than imaginative and prescient or listening to. However similar to imaginative and prescient and listening to, our sense of…

May the drug used to deal with erectile dysfunction assist ladies who’ve difficulties with arousal? It’s a query that sexual drugs researchers have puzzled over since no less than the late Nineteen Nineties, when the Meals and Drug Administration authorized sildenafil, often called Viagra, for males. Docs prescribe sildenafil off-label to some feminine sufferers, both…