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Breakthrough stroke treatment at Penn State Health offers patients new hope

For the first seven-and-a-half years after a massive stroke, Donald Yeagle lived his “new normal.” After a week in the intensive care unit at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, he spent 40 days at Penn State Health Rehabilitation Hospital learning to walk again. But he didn’t regain use of his left arm or hand.

Amy Schumer reveals she has Cushing syndrome

According to the Mayo Clinic, the condition can lead to weight gain, fatigue, “moon face,” headaches and other symptoms.

2023 Fatal Dog Attack Breed Identification Photographs Released

"Pit bulls and their mixes represent 65% of the identification images collected in 2023."

Wilson Fittipaldi passed away on Friday at the age of 80

MOTORSPORT – Former Formula 1 driver and team owner Wilson Fittipaldi passed away on Friday at the age of 80. The older brother of double world champion Emerson and father of F1 and Indycar racer Christian had been ill for some time. He had been hospitalised since Christmas Day, which was also his birthday, after he choked on a piece of meat. His family was unable to clear his airway, which triggered a cardiac arrest. Born in...

Nikki Haley sides with Alabama Supreme Court on IVF ruling

NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday that frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization are “babies,” siding with a recent Alabama Supreme Court decision that raised concerns among doctors and patients about the future of the procedure. “Embryos, to me, are babies,” Haley told NBC News in an interview, adding that she used artificial insemination to have her son, a different process than IVF that doesn't present the same complexities around...

Remember the Presidential Physical Fitness Test? Barack Obama got rid it

THE NEW YORK TIMES – If you went to an American public school between 1966 and 2012, you probably have memories of sweating through the Presidential Physical Fitness Test — a gym class gauntlet that involved a mile run, sit-ups, pull-ups (or push-ups), a sit-and-reach and a shuttle run. For those who were athletically inclined, it was a chance to shine: Children who scored in the top 15 percent were honored with a Presidential Physical...

Pro-Palestinian Protestors Deliver 300 Pounds of Manure to Nancy Pelosi’s House

PJ MEDIA – San Francisco's infamous poop map got a massive update last week after pro-Palestinian protesters dumped 300 pounds of cow manure outside Nancy Pelosi's home. After the large delivery of bovine excrement was placed, the group held signs reading "NANCY PELOSI ENOUGH WITH THIS S—T" and "STOP ARMING ISRAEL. ARMS EMBARGO NOW." It's not clear if anyone notice a difference in the cleanliness of the street. According to a report from the San Francisco Standard,...

Bayer makes a deal on popular contraceptive with Mark Cuban’s online pharmacy

Mark Cuban's pharmacy could boost the drugs' sales. It will probably take a few months to see how the experiment works out.

Frozen embryos are ‘children,’ Alabama Supreme Court rules in couples’ wrongful death suits

AL.COM, ALABAMA – Three couples whose frozen embryos were destroyed when a wandering hospital patient dropped the specimens can sue for wrongful death because the embryos were “children,” the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday. The Center for Reproductive Medicine, a fertility clinic, and Mobile Infirmary Medical Center, where the embryos were being stored, claimed the couples could not sue for wrongful death because Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act does not cover embryos outside...

Hall of Fame college basketball coach Lefty Driesell dead at 92

Driesell was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.

Tiger Woods treated with IV bag after withdrawing from Genesis Invitational with flu-like symptoms

CNN — Tiger Woods withdrew from The Genesis Invitational during the second round after suffering from “flu-like symptoms” and being “treated with an IV bag,” his longtime business partner Rob McNamara told reporters on Friday. The PGA Tour had announced Woods’ withdrawal from the tournament earlier on Friday. “He had a little bit of a fever and that, and was better during the warm-up, but then when he got out there and was walking and playing,...

Biden Slammed for Buying Fried Chicken for Black Family in ‘Outreach’ Video

“Whoever told you to show up to a black family’s house with some fried chicken and some ice tea from a restaurant called the Cook Out?”

An 83-year-old doctor and triathlete transformed his health in his 40s. He shares his 4 key diet principles.

Joseph Maroon is an 83-year-old practicing neurosurgeon who competes in triathlons.

‘Behind the Times’: Washington Tries to Catch Up With AI’s Use in Health Care

KFF Health News – Lawmakers and regulators in Washington are starting to puzzle over how to regulate artificial intelligence in health care — and the AI industry thinks there’s a good chance they’ll mess it up. “It’s an incredibly daunting problem,” said Bob Wachter, the chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California-San Francisco. “There’s a risk we come in with guns blazing and overregulate.” Already, AI’s impact on health care is widespread....
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