If hit podcasts, best-selling books and influencer tradition are any indication, hundreds of thousands of individuals are obsessive about longevity. However simply as essential as your life span is your well being span, or the variety of years you reside in good well being, mentioned Susan B. Roberts, the senior affiliate dean for analysis on…

The connections are commonsense however the conclusion is surprising. Bats eat bugs. When a deadly illness hit bats, farmers used extra pesticides to guard crops. And that, in response to a brand new examine, led to a rise in toddler mortality. In line with the analysis, published Thursday in the journal Science, farmers in affected…

The final time Alicia Kline walked unassisted was in January 2021. She is in fixed ache from hip arthritis and makes use of a walker and a wheelchair. The issue is her weight problems — her physique mass index, or B.M.I., is over 50. And for somebody like Ms. Kline, 54, of Studying, Pa., discovering…

The brand new tattoo could also be of an unfurling script, a daring geometric sleeve or a humorous illustration. Maybe it’s your first, or joins a medley: inked in honor of an individual, place or the spirit of self-expression. Getting a tattoo is much less fringe than it as soon as was: About 32 p.c…

Wegovy, the favored weight problems drug, could have one more stunning profit. In a big scientific trial, folks taking the drug in the course of the pandemic were less likely to die of Covid-19, researchers reported on Friday. Individuals on Wegovy nonetheless bought Covid, and on the identical charge as folks randomly assigned to take…

If January is the Monday of the calendar 12 months, then summer time is clearly its weekend — June is its Friday, July its Saturday and August its lazy, scrumptious, fretful Sunday. Which is why so many people presently discover ourselves within the grips of the “September Scaries.” These conversant in the idea of the…

Times Insider explains who we’re and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes collectively. For Catherine Pearson, no matter is taboo. As a reporter on the Properly desk of The New York Occasions, she has written about sexual libido differences in relationships, the male loneliness epidemic and postpartum depression. Once…