Trainers-to-the-stars and a ‘clean eating’ restaurant on offer at The Well

A pricey health and wellness club with celebrity practitioners will open this spring at 2 East 15th St. The Well will feature a gym, spa, wellness space, health coaches and practitioners of East and West medicine in its 13,000-square-foot space. Along with yoga, meditation, traditional and private training sessions, the gym will offer high intensity… Read More »

Evidence-Based Satire

By SAURABH JHA Sequels generally disappoint. Jason couldn’t match the fear he generated in the original Friday the 13th. The sequel to the Parachute, a satirical piece canvassing PubMed for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing parachutes to placebo, matched its brilliance, and even exceeded it, though the margin can’t be confirmed with statistical significance. The… Read More »

'Widespread and dangerous': Facing medical uncertainty, doctors tell patients it's all in their heads

But that doctor was proved wrong when an MRI showed that the girl had acute flaccid myelitis or AFM, a polio-like disease that’s struck hundreds of children since 2014. Erin Olivera, mother of a child with AFM and founder of a private Facebook page for parents of 400 children with the disease, says Bailey’s experience… Read More »