Day: October 30, 2019

Meghan Markle Says British Tabloids Have Made Her Marriage to Prince Harry ‘Challenging’

(LONDON) — The Duchess of Sussex says her first year of marriage to Britain’s Prince Harry has been difficult because of the pressure from Britain’s tabloid press. In an interview broadcast Sunday, Meghan Markle told British TV channel ITV that her British friends warned her not to marry the prince because of the intense media…

American Women Are Dying. To Save Them, We Need to Depoliticize Women’s Health Care

Women’s health in the United States is in a state of emergency. In the last five years, the death rate among women ages 15 to 54 has steadily risen. An American woman today is 50% more likely to die in childbirth than her mother. Half of all U.S. counties lack a single obstetrician-gynecologist, and more…

The Director of the NIH Lays Out His Vision of the Future of Medical Science

Our world has never witnessed a time of greater promise for improving human health. Many of today’s health advances have stemmed from a long arc of discovery that begins with strong, steady support for basic science. In large part because of fundamental research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which traces its roots…

China, Harvard, Jessye Norman: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing

Oct. 1, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times1. The police shot a protester in Hong Kong, resulting in a split-screen contrast with the pageantry of China’s National Day.As Beijing celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Communist Party’s rule with…