“So how long is this going to take?” I asked facialist Melanie Simon, while eyeballing my rather swanky spa suite at the Surrey Hotel’s Cornelia Spa. It was a Monday evening, and I knew that Simon was only in New York just three times a year; she splits her time...
Christina D’Ambrosio, a teacher, suffered rhabdomyolysis after a grueling spin class. Sam Hodgson for The New York Times Three years ago, Christina D’Ambrosio went to her first spin class, pedaling fast on a stationary bike to the rhythms of popular music as an...
American doctors have been noticing an increase in osteoarthritis of the knee. They have suspected two driving forces: more old people and more people who are overweight. A study published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues that’s...
