LA Times – The Trump administration has frozen hundreds of science, medical and other federal grants to UCLA worth nearly $200 million, citing the university’s alleged “discrimination” in admissions and failure to “promote a research environment free of antisemitism.”
The decision to pull funding comes after Atty. Gen.Pam Bondi and the Justice Department said this week that UCLA would pay a “heavy price” for acting with “deliberate indifference” to the civil rights of Jewish and...
VERYWELL HEALTH – You might start aging faster once you turn 50.
A new study found that organ and tissue aging accelerates around this age. However, not everything declines at the same rate: blood vessels start aging even faster than other parts of the body.
The new study analyzed tissue samples from 76 organ donors who had accidental traumatic brain injuries between the ages of 14 and 68.
The samples included various parts of the body: the...
KFF Health News – A little-known federal agency that sends more than $12 billion annually to support community health centers, addiction treatment services, and workforce initiatives for America’s neediest people has been hobbled by the Trump administration’s staffing purges.
The cuts are “just a little astonishing,” said Carole Johnson, who previously led the Health Resources and Services Administration.
She left the agency in January with the administration change and has described the sweeping staff cuts as...
The New York Post – WWE legend Hulk Hogan died of a heart attack, according to the Pinellas County Forensic Science Center records obtained by Page Six.
Hogan, 71, suffered from acute myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, and had a history of atrial fibrillation (AFib), the most common cardiac arrhythmia — or irregular heartbeat.
Per the records, the WWE Hall of Famer had a history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), which is a...
CNN – When Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac, they helped propel the band to a commercial and creative pinnacle.
For the couple, though, joining the band was the beginning of the end of their love story.
Nicks and Buckingham’s infamously tumultuous relationship, which began in the early 1970s, ended just two years into their tenure in Fleetwood Mac.
Though they’ve been broken up for nearly 50 years, their mutual antipathy remains as legendary as...
The Savannah River Site was built in 1951 as a means to produce material for nuclear weapons, primarily tritium and plutonium, to support America’s defense programs, according to the SRS website.
MAYO CLINIC NEWS NETWORK – For nearly three decades, Mayo Clinic researcher Christopher Evans, Ph.D., has pushed to expand gene therapy beyond its original scope of fixing rare, single-gene defects. That has meant systematically advancing the field through laboratory experiments, pre-clinical studies and clinical trials.
Several gene therapies have already received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and experts predict that 40 to 60 more could be approved over the next decade...
(CNN) — For summertime beachgoers, the threat of sharks may loom large, but nature’s deadliest predator is actually much smaller.
The tiny mosquito is not only a warm-weather nuisance but also wears the crown for “No. 1 killer of humanity across our existence,” according to historian Dr. Timothy C. Winegard.
The predatory insect takes more than 1 million lives each year by transmitting lethal diseases. Sharks, meanwhile, are estimated to have a kill streak orders of...
The US State Department spokesperson referred to the contraceptives to be destroyed as “certain abortifacient birth control commodities from terminated Biden-era USAID contracts.”