Weekly Health Quiz: Ectopic Pregnancy, Heart Health and Toddler Tantrums

EAST LONDON, South Africa — Before he passed out amid the crush of bodies, Simbongile Mtsweni gasped for air as a gas that felt like fire crept into his nose and lungs. “When I came to,” he said, “I was on the second floor and started vomiting when I realized…

It was 2008 when Dom Matteo stepped on the scale and saw the number 300. That’s when he stopped weighing himself. In 2009, Stephen Box decided, ‘I’m just going to be fat forever. Whatever.’ After diligently trying to lose fat for thirty years, Katey Caswell was still morbidly obese. She…

In late 2012, the best-selling author and journalist Michael Pollan (“The Omnivore’s Dilemma”) was at a dinner party in Berkeley, Calif. Among his fellow diners was a prominent developmental psychiatrist, in her 60s, who spoke at some length about a recent LSD trip. This pricked up Pollan’s ears. His first…

The 21-year-old woman gasped as she read the headline: “The 16-Year-Old Girl Who Walks and Eats Tacos While on Life Support.” She scanned the article about a girl who had a mysterious illness that destroyed her lungs and who now needed a machine to breathe for her. “I need to…

As busy mamas, we don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to our skincare routines. That’s why it’s great to have some “go-to” natural beauty products that maximize our time and give us great benefits—ones that not only give us glowing skin but are also quick and easy to…

Vladimir Zelenko, a self-described “simple country doctor” from upstate New York who rocketed to prominence in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic when his controversial treatment for the coronavirus gained White House support, died on Thursday in Dallas. He was 48. His wife, Rinat Zelenko, said he died of…