We’ve all seen guide dogs that can direct blind people around obstacles and tell them when it is safe to cross the street. Perhaps you also know of guide dogs for the deaf, which can alert people to a ringing phone, a doorbell or a smoke alarm
First, he tore up his dog toys. Then shredded the furniture, clothes, schoolbooks — and, finally, any semblance of family unity. James, a chocolate-brown pointer mix, turned from adorable pet to problem child in a matter of weeks.
Several years ago, after having to drive for too long behind a truck full of stinking, squealing pigs being delivered for slaughter, I gave up eating meat. I’d been harboring a growing distaste for the ugliness that can be industrial agricultu
By HIROKO TABUCHI, DAVID E. SANGER and KEITH BRADSHER
Japanese officials and safety workers struggled to reassert control over badly damaged nuclear reactors and avert calamity on Tuesday, after the situation at the stricken Fukushima plant appeared to verge towards catastrophe. Radiationn levels shot
When Harold Richards, 81, arrived at the hospital emergency room in Ann Arbor, Mich., he expected a long wait. After all, he’d been through the emergency room drill before. The patient in the worst condition would be seen first, he knew, and t
Even as workers race to prevent the radioactive cores of the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan from melting down, concerns are growing that nearby pools holding spent fuel rods could pose an even greater danger.
As radiation levels rise at the crippled reactors in northern Japan, a basic question arises: how long can workers keep struggling to ward off full meltdowns?
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez is known to have expressed little patience for imported leisure pursuits like golf or Scotch whisky tippling. Now he has reserved some ire for another practice that is beloved in Venezuela: breast
Congress continues to debate the impact of the federal health care law, with a House subcommittee holding a hearing on Thursday about the effect of the law on the nation’s employers.
The McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division of Johnson and Johnson, which has been besieged by manufacturing problems and recalls of children’s Tylenol and other over-the-counter medicines for more than a year, reached a consent decree with the Fo
This week marks the beginning of Lent, when many of us choose to abstain from meat or dairy products — making this the perfect time to try new vegan dishes, writes Martha Rose Shulman in this week’s Recipes for Health.
HOUSTON — Representative Gabrielle Giffords is “making leaps and bounds” in her neurological recovery, after being shot in the head on Jan. 8 in Tucson, her doctors said Friday at a news conference.
A panel of independent experts has harshly reviewed the World Health Organization’s handling of the 2009 epidemic of H1N1 swine flu, though it found no evidence supporting the most outlandish accusation made against the agency: that it exaggera
As the scale of Japan’s nuclear crisis begins to come to light, experts in Japan and the United States say the country is now facing a cascade of accumulating problems that suggest that radioactive releases of steam from the crippled plants c
Mexico put its schoolchildren on a diet at the beginning of the year. But as often happens with New Year’s resolutions, there are many ways to cheat. Here is some of what is allowed for sale in schools under new guidelines that are intended t
We learned this week from a federal bribery case, of all places, that the going rate in 2008 to park a dying person in a hospital bed in Brooklyn was $772.80. That fee was enough to cover hospice care and, if the charges are true, a payoff to a stat
The federal government told state attorneys general that it had run out of a crucial execution drug and was exploring alternatives, dashing states’ hopes of obtaining a federal supply of the drug.
As a medical student and later during my residency, I trained for some time in a medical center known for its research and clinical trials. Every week, patients with rare diseases and cancers that had not responded to standard therapy arrived from a
