May 24, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Credit.Chloe Cushman
By Candida Moss
Ms. Moss is a professor of theology at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. who is based in New York. She also studies disability theory and is a kidney transplant recipient.
âWhen can we meet?â As more people are vaccinated, my inbox grows ever more hopeful. Emails from conference organizers, employers, friends, family and businesses promise that we will soon âget back to normalâ and put the dark shadow of the pandemic behind us. Now that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined that masks are no longer necessary for the vaccinated, the spring has brought with it an optimistic news cycle that eagerly anticipates the post-Covid world.
Dental Medicine ’21, reflect on meeting each other in dental school.
(Courtesy of Touro College) It all started with a late-night group study session in the fourth-floor student lounge at the Touro College of Dental Medicine (TCDM).
When they first met in the fall of 2017, both Miriam Ivry and Daniel Nasimov were just first-year dental students focused solely on their future careers and ensuring they got the grades to get them there. With the idea of falling in love the last thing on either of their minds, the pair initially met through friends over stacks of textbooks and diagrams of teeth. Miriam and Daniel then grew closer together over the course of several study groups, forming a strong friendship that quickly developed into something more.
A few weeks ago, my wife Elie and I enjoyed our first post-COVID vaccine Shabbat lunch with friends a true pleasure. Dessert was served with hot tea very hot tea and as I sat waiting for it to cool, I pondered the following:
Jutting out into the Caspian Sea at the northeast end of Iran is Golestan, one of the 31 provinces of Iran. With a population of 1.8 million, it is a relatively rural area, heavily agricultural, with a strongly religious Muslim population. Many of the homes in Golestan are fairly primitive with outdoor plumbing and outhouses, indoor heating from stoves using coal and wood, and, not infrequently, farm animals sharing the homes of the farmers and their families.
By Bill Galluccio
May 18, 2021
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has lowered the recommended age for people to begin getting screened for colorectal cancer. The task force says that asymptomatic people who do not have a history of colon or rectal polyps or a family history of colorectal cancer should get screened when they turn 45.
The task force cited an alarming rise in cases of colorectal cancer in people under the age of 50. The number of cases in adults between the ages of 40 and 49 increased by almost 15% from 2000-2002 to 2014-2016. It s a major area of concern, and investigation theories abound, Dr.