Paris Journal: A French Dining Staple Is Losing Its Place at the Table

Agnes Dherbeys for The New York Times At Philippe Levin's bakery in Paris, traditional, slow-baked breads are still much sought after and business has never been better, he says. PARIS — The French, it seems, are falling out of love. Not with free...

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Antibiotics Maker in Deals for 2 Rivals

Cubist said it would pay Optimer shareholders $10.75 a share in cash upfront, and an additional $5 a share contingent on Optimer's meeting certain sales milestones. The total value of $15.75 a share is a premium of about 19 percent to Optimer's closing...

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United Nations May Fall Short in Food Aid for Syria

WASHINGTON — The United Nations' food agency said Tuesday that it might not be able to meet its goal of aiding three million Syrians in July. The agency, the World Food Program, had reached only 2.4 million people as fighting intensified in areas...

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Well: How Exercise Changes Fat and Muscle Cells

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Exercise promotes health, reducing most people's risks of developing diabetes and growing obese. But just how, at a cellular level, exercise performs this beneficial magic — what physiological...

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F.D.A. Strengthens Warnings on Lariam, an Anti-Malaria Drug

The Food and Drug Administration announced on Monday that a commonly used anti-malaria drug must carry the so-called black box warning on its label because of the danger that the drug could cause serious neurological and psychiatric side effects, some...

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Despite Two New Studies on Motives for Monogamy, the Debate Continues

The golden lion tamarin, a one-pound primate that lives in Brazil, is a stunningly monogamous creature. A male will typically pair with a female and they will stay close for the rest of their lives, mating only with each other and then working together...

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Program Compelling Outpatient Treatment for Mental Illness Is Working, Study Says

For some people with severe mental illness, life is a cycle of hospitalization, skipped medication, decline and then rehospitalization. They may deny they have psychiatric disorders, refuse treatment and cascade into out-of-control behavior that can...

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Well: Scientists Seek to Rein In Diagnoses of Cancer

A group of experts advising the nation's premier cancer research institution has recommended changing the definition of cancer and eliminating the word from some common diagnoses as part of sweeping changes in the nation's approach to cancer detection...

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News Analysis: The Hype Over Hospital Rankings

LAST week U.S. News and World Report released its annual list of "Best Hospitals." Web sites are being updated to celebrate victories. (Johns Hopkins ranks No. 1!) Magazines will be plump with advertising. (NewYork-Presbyterian is first in New York...

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G.O.P. Senators See an Upside in a Problematic Issue: Abortion

But what is bringing all these marquee political names together is not the Iowa State Fair or a Tea Party rally on the National Mall. Rather, they are all talking discreetly about how to advance a bill in the Senate to ban abortion at 20 weeks after...

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Recipes for Health: Two Tomatillo Salsas

Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times I've always had a weakness for green salsa made with tomatillos, so when I stumbled upon a stall at a small farmers' market selling beautiful firm, purple-tinged tomatillos last week, I bought them on impulse....

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Well: Understanding Eczema to Treat It

Summer is both a blessing and curse for millions of people afflicted with a common chronic skin condition called eczema. The dry, red and usually intolerably itchy patches often recede when the air is warm and damp and skin is exposed more often to sunlight....

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Obama Intends to Let Health Care Law Prove Critics Wrong by Succeeding

GALESBURG, Ill. — President Obama waved aside persistent Republican criticism of his signature health care law last week, saying in a New York Times interview that the overhaul would become vastly more popular once "all the nightmare scenarios" from...

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A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA

CLEWISTON, Fla. — The call Ricke Kress and every other citrus grower in Florida dreaded came while he was driving. "It's here" was all his grove manager needed to say to force him over to the side of the road. The disease that sours oranges and...

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