health

The 95-year-old Pope Emeritus "is very sick" due to his advanced age

Science tells us that by the time you are about 60 years old, 75 percent of your health outcomes are determined by your choices. That’s genetic self-engineering: Each healthy act switches on youth-promoting genes and switches off genes that cause...

Concerns for Queen Elizabeth II’s health are growing, as it appeared to be deteriorating on Thursday.  Buckingham Palace announced that she has been placed under medical supervision. and that her doctors are “concerned”. The queen, who is 96, has not...

Everywhere you look on the internet you see celebrities posting their pictures “without make-up”. Of course, in most cases this is actually not true, they’re wearing what most women wear on a daily basis: makeup that looks natural, but it’s...

by Maya Miller, with additional reporting from  Lisa Song, Lylla Younes,  Ava Kofman and Al Shaw for Propublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.   You may be one of...

In times BC (Before Coronavirus) we often sat on the porch with beverages, filled the bird feeder, invited some company and enjoyed a summer evening. Now, our company is of the four-footed or winged kind. We all learn what we...

According to legend, the icon of the Madonna, known as Salus Populi Romani was painted by St. Luke himself and brought from Jerusalem to Rome by St. Helena during the 4th century. Like the Salus Populi Romani, the miraculous crucifix’s...

I am writing to you from Bergamo, Italy, at the heart of the coronavirus crisis. The news media in the US has not captured the severity of what is happening here. I am writing this post because each of you,...

I was born in Milan, raised in a small city in the area of Monza, and on the day of the Coronavirus outbreak in Italy, I was about to spend an (almost) carefree weekend in Trentino Alto-Adige, a region till...