“This illness is incurable, it’s terminal, and it’ll finally kill you. Inform your kids, inform your loved ones, they should know the reality.” Dr. Phil Stieg’s verdict got here after my mind surgical procedure at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York Metropolis. He’d extracted a lime-size mass from my proper parietal lobe — glioblastoma, a…

Figuring out whether or not somebody has Alzheimer’s illness normally requires an prolonged diagnostic course of. A physician takes a affected person’s medical historical past, discusses signs, administers verbal and visible cognitive exams. The affected person could endure a PET scan, an M.R.I. or a spinal faucet — exams that detect the presence of two…

This column is a part of a collection for the Design special section of The New York Instances. Readers are invited to ship inquiries to [email protected]. After a column I wrote final summer season that touched on Ping-Pong tables, a reader requested if I might suggest firms supplying a pinball machine for his dwelling. In…

Daffodils are blooming, temperatures are rising, days are lengthening — all positive indicators of spring. However one other, much less welcome change is afoot: At 2 a.m. on Sunday, most individuals in the US will “spring” their clocks ahead by one hour. For many people, this transition is tougher than it’s once we “fall again”…

Alcohol-related liver illness is the leading cause of demise from extreme consuming — and whereas it’s curable within the earliest phases, many individuals don’t notice they’ve it till it’s too late to reverse. Annual deaths attributable to the illness are on the rise in america, having climbed 39 p.c in recent times, based on new…

Twins are a bonanza for analysis psychologists. In a area perpetually in search of to tease out the results of genetics, setting and life expertise, they supply a pure managed experiment as their paths diverge, subtly or dramatically, by means of maturity. Take Dennis and Douglas. In highschool, they have been so alike that mates…

Two years in the past, German medical doctors stumbled throughout information stories of a person being investigated for receiving scores of coronavirus vaccines with no medical clarification. Then adopted a flurry of hypothesis about what he had been as much as. Because it turned out, prosecutors had been trying into whether or not he had…

Norovirus is extraordinarily contagious, and, as anybody who has had it might probably inform you, extraordinarily disagreeable. Cases of the sickness — which may trigger nausea, abdomen ache and diarrhea — are on the rise in the United States, in response to knowledge from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. Right here’s what to…