If anyone is the queen of sleep anxiety, it might be me. I spend the night lying awake, unable to shut my brain off from ruminating thoughts. They either prevent me from falling asleep for hours, wake me up in the middle of the night, or act as an alarm clock well before my iPhone …
Skin-care packaging makes a lot of promises. Words like “anti-aging,” “firming,” and “illuminating” are all assurances you may see plastered on bottles and tubes. And then there’s “pollution-fighting,” becoming ever more present on sunscreens, moisturizers, foundations, and more. And it’s not just marketing, say experts. “Just like waste and industrial pollution contaminates our natural environment, …
When Barbara Corcoran turned 70, she famously threw herself a mock funeral. “Everybody thought it was a publicity stunt,” the puckish real estate mogul and Shark Tank producer/co-star says today. “I just did it to shock the shit out of my friends. And they were shocked. If they had one moment of thinking I was …
Do you spend more time in bed with your laptop, answering Slack messages, than you do with your partner? Then it may be time for a reality check. When our romantic relationships carry too much of the burden of our professional life, it can lead to resentment, jealousy, and, ultimately, a breakup—especially when we expect …
I still don’t know how the “Enchanted Moonlight Library” sleepcast episode ends. Which, I suppose, is the point. A sleepcast is exactly what it sounds like: a podcast intended to help you doze off. Or, perhaps I have heard “the end” and never knew it; Headspace, the mental health app housing the audio content, slightly …
There are about 790,000 total knee replacements and 544,000 hip replacements done every year in the U.S.—and those numbers are expected to grow as the population ages, according to the American College of Rheumatology. Intended to help relieve pain and improve function, knee and hip replacements are considered two of the most successful medical interventions …
Hunter “Ratch” Ratchford is an Alabama college student with 42,000 followers on TikTok. That’s where he posts, pretty much exclusively, about Zyn, a brand of flavored oral nicotine pouches that come in bright round cans and flavors like cool mint, citrus, and cinnamon. Three years ago, says Ratch, one of his fraternity buddies introduced him …
The Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit this week has been visited by leaders in women’s health who have no shortage of advice for anyone looking to improve their longevity and health span. During a panel on how women can reclaim their midlife, Debra Whitman, executive vice president and chief public policy officer at AARP and …
Twenty-three years ago today, 343 members of the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Now even more have died from illnesses related to their rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero. In a ceremony last week, 32 FDNY members’ names …
In the quest for longevity, a new study proposes a novel pathway to extend life. In an animal study, researchers found that mice given a drug to inhibit a protein associated with aging lived nearly 25% longer and were less likely to develop cancer than mice in the control group. While the results do not …