Dani Blum

5 days ago | nytimes.com | Maggie Astor |Azeen Ghorayshi |Dani Blum

People in the community called the remarks dehumanizing and warned they could perpetuate harmful stigma. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s remarks this week that autism "destroys" children have prompted outrage among many autistic people and their families. They said that they had done things he claimed were impossible - hold a job, write a poem, play baseball, go on a date - and added that the lives of people who did need help performing daily activities were still worthy of respect.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Karoun Demirjian |Dani Blum |Azeen Ghorayshi

In remarks laced with scientific inaccuracies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said on Wednesday that autism was preventable while directly contradicting researchers within his own agency on a primary driver behind rising rates of the condition in young children.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Rebecca Robbins |Dani Blum

U.S. regulators are trying to shut down the industry for compounded weight-loss drugs, which could result in higher costs or suspend treatment for patients. Copycat medications, produced through a process of mixing drug ingredients known as compounding, have spawned a multi-billion-dollar industry. Credit... Hilary Swift for The New York Times U.S. regulators are trying to shut down the industry for compounded weight-loss drugs, which could result in higher costs or suspend treatment for patients.

2 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Dani Blum

Do you want to throw your phone into a blender? Do you want to squeeze out five full seconds of your own attention without the heat of a blinking cursor, a twitching ad, an ambient anxiety underscoring every sentence? You can yearn for the apocalypse, or, maybe more pointedly, for the year 2010. Sleigh Bells are there with you, spiraling and scrolling. Consciousness might be a bit much right now, the band says. They’re grasping for a pause button. Sleigh Bells got so much right.

2 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Dani Blum

NEW YORK – Just once, Mr Matthew Slater would like to experience a hangover. But even if the 34-year-old finishes a bottle of vodka, he still wakes up feeling fine the next day. “Unless they know me, people don’t really believe me,” Mr Slater said. “It’s just kind of assumed that when you drink a bunch of poison, your body is going to react.”Mr Daniel Adams, 23, has also never felt queasy or shaky the morning after a night out.