A prescription for yogurt. Meet Your Microbiome Remember the last time your doctor prescribed an antibiotic? Chances are a prescription for yogurt came right along with... News 22 Apr 2022 | 02:08
What Color is Your Memory? You know those thoughts that come from time to time, making you smile as you remember? The Greeks had a word for it, νημονικός... News 10 Apr 2022 | 11:07
Citi Bike racks in front of The Seafire Grill on East 48th Street. Photo courtesy of The Seafire Grill Letters to the Editor BIKE RACKS AND RESTAURANTS As of the issues of March 31 - April 6, you have now covered two disturbing aspects of Open Dining:... News 05 Apr 2022 | 09:58
Dr. Gunda Georg of the Department of Medical Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. Photo via University of Minnesota website The Male Pill In the 62 years since The Pill appeared, it has been a resounding success at giving women a way to control fertility. By... News 25 Mar 2022 | 02:25
Living Safe and Well Alone Live alone? You’re not alone. Several recent surveys show that almost half of all Manhattan tenants are singletons. It’s... News 18 Mar 2022 | 12:06
Bonding With Babies It’s a fairly well-known view that it may take two to make a baby, but once the deed is done and delivered, one of the pair... News 04 Mar 2022 | 03:16
Photo via Amazon.com Bridging the American Islands James Hime is an Arkansas-born, sometime-New Yorker and currently world-traveled Texan whose first book, “The Night of The... Voices 16 Feb 2022 | 03:42
Washing COVID Away Two years and a lifetime ago, when COVID first burst into our lives, handwashing became the order of the day as we scrubbed... News 26 Jan 2022 | 04:02
Meeting the Morning After At the close of Pandemic Year II, December 31, 2021 was clearly an evening in need of champagne. Lots of champagne. Which... News 30 Dec 2021 | 03:19
One survey found that cranberry sauce and turkey are the most-disliked Thanksgiving foods. Placating Picky Palates There’s always one at the table. You know, the person who while everyone else was chowing down on turkey and yams on Thanksgiving... News 03 Dec 2021 | 11:33
Sutton Area Community holiday lights. Photo courtesy of SAC Holiday Lights: The Season of Stars and Candles Manhattan is many things. One thing it isn’t is Flynn Land. Two weeks ago, Michael Flynn, the general who served for a time... News 02 Dec 2021 | 03:37
Perfecting COVID Pills That giant whoooshing sound you heard last Thursday was not an approaching Atlantic hurricane. It was the global sigh of... News 05 Nov 2021 | 11:59
Students return to school in Ozone Park, Queens on September 21, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Mono-Mania Remember high school? Remember your first kiss? Remember the follow up: Friends with mono, better known as the kissing disease?... News 29 Oct 2021 | 11:04
Blueberries and blackberries have high antioxidant values. Feeding an Aging Brain Once upon a time, neurologists believed that after a certain age, say, 30, your brain would begin to shrink, taking your... News 06 Oct 2021 | 01:05
Stairway and escalator work nearing completion at Grand Central Terminal, August 20, 2020. Photo: Trent Reeves / MTA Construction & Development Staying Safe on the Stairs According to the U.S. Census, about half of American homes have staircases. Here in Manhattan, where most of us live in apartments,... News 02 Sep 2021 | 08:18
