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Health Matters: Cancer surgery leads to disfigured limb

Certain diseases are more popular than others, which may sound like a strange statement, but to those in health care, this is a well-recognized phenomenon. I speak of popularity in terms of media attention, research efforts into cures, charitable organizations aiming to support this research, ...

'Thunderbolts' is Marvel, and Florence Pugh, in high gear

As they so often do in Marvel Land, worlds collide in "Thunderbolts." But in this refreshingly earthbound iteration of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the collision isn't a matter of interplanetary strife. "Thunderbolts" has been touted as the unlikely meeting of two of the dominant forces in ...

Letters Against Isolation

By ZOE GRAMANA 8-18 Media Special to the Journal Most seniors in nursing homes are isolated, with just doctors and nurses and maybe a few visitors from time to time to keep them company, and some of them don’t even have those, and even if they do, visitors typically come only little ...

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with crisp-fried shrimp tacos

By CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Shrimp is payday food for many, but Raul Ortega figured out how to make the shrimp taco affordable by using fewer shrimp while optimizing flavor. At Mariscos Jalisco, Ortega's food truck in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, ...