But symptoms like fatigue are often not recognized as being related to myocarditis. And Dr. McManus suspects that the fatigue that sometimes follows a bout with Covid-19 might be caused by this heart problem. “We think of Covid-19 and influenza as respiratory diseases, and in fact they are,” said Dr. Bruce M. McManus, an emeritus […]

In the movies, birth is usually an emergency. It begins with the woman’s water breaking, at the worst possible moment. She appears to be barely in labor, and yet she is rushed, through gridlock traffic, to the hospital. There she becomes angry, and the pain is her husband’s fault. She yells at him, perhaps even […]

Women appear to have more side effects after vaccination than men. A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in February, examined the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines and found that 79 percent of the side effects reported to the agency came from women, even though only 61 percent of the vaccines had […]

“I’ll often say the risk of getting a blood clot with birth control pills is kind of similar to having a really serious reaction to penicillin,” said Dr. Raegan McDonald-Mosley, an obstetrician-gynecologist and the C.E.O. of Power to Decide, a group devoted to reducing unintended pregnancy. She frequently discusses blood clot risk with her patients, […]

Dr. Meyer, a devoted Quaker, needed a little more time and spiritual consultation, but also made peace, grateful for Noah. “We both decided,” Dr. Prizant said, “to look at having just one child as an opportunity to have more resources to serve many more children through our work.” A Crack in the Glass Reading the […]