In the late 1970s in Madras, India, Ethiopian-born medical student Abraham Fergus noticed and sometimes carried his uncle’s medical bags. The first was a boxy “mobile office” filled with alcohol and needles, and the later model was a closed bag that smelled of a pungent medicinal. When Verghese moved to Johnson City, Tennessee, in 1980, … Read more
Within 27 hours over the 4th of July weekend, New Haven and Hartford police responded to incidents involving six gunshot victims, including a 5-year-old boy who was shot and a woman who was killed. Nick Icy, director of the Yale New Haven Center for Injury and Violence Prevention, described a scene in the past few … Read more
Larry Petrov has discovered a treasure in the crowded fourth-floor attic of a historic Baltimore academic building, amid abandoned furniture and dusty filing cabinets. Burial is not worth millions. But it’s a wonderful monument and historical bridge between truth, tradition, and baseball. Archibald “Moonlight” Graham played two rounds from the right field in a major … Read more
Image Courtesy/Civil War actor Doug Decker did a thorough research on Dr. John Hill Brenton to accurately portray him. What sets Decker apart are his “bleeding” medical models. The roots of today’s orthopedic practices and other pioneering medical technologies lie in the Civil War field hospitals where Dr. John Hill Brenton saved lives. Not forgotten … Read more
AIDEN GETZ with members of the pediatric intensive care unit care team. Courtesy of Geisinger SPRING MILLS – Aiden Getz loves fire trucks, Trolls, dirt and going to the nursery. In other words, he’s a very normal four-and-a-half-year-old boy – and that makes him extraordinary. This is because he overcame a lot of medical challenges … Read more
With no current treatments for hepatitis A, University of North Carolina School of Medicine scientists led by Stanley Lemon, MD, discovered how protein and enzymes interact to allow the hepatitis A virus to multiply, and used a drug known to stop the virus replication in an animal model. Fluorescence micrograph of a human liver cell … Read more
People leave the Feld shopping center in Copenhagen, Denmark on Sunday, July 3, 2022. A gunman opened fire inside the crowded shopping center in the Danish capital Sunday, killing a few people and seriously wounding several others, police said. (Olafur Steinar Rye Gestsson/Ritzau Scanpix via AP) Olafur Steiner Rae Jesson AP Copenhagen, Denmark Danish police … Read more
Imagine a drug that reduced breast cancer mortality and the risk of recurrent breast cancer by 50%, and reduced the risks of colon cancer and type 2 diabetes by two-thirds, and heart disease, high blood pressure and Alzheimer’s disease by 40%. Moreover, they can be as effective as antidepressants or cognitive behavioral therapy in counteracting … Read more
By Cassie Smith – Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (Associated Press) — When massive food cost increases spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic left Andrew Caplinger struggling to find fresh catfish for his restaurants, he decided to try an “experimental” solution — planting his own. In the coming months, Indianapolis chain Caplinger’s Fresh Catch Seafood will … Read more
It’s also the day ESPN broadcasts Nathan’s famous Hot-Dog-eating contest in Coney Island, NBC broadcasts its annual 4th of July fireworks in New York City, and GPB broadcasts its 4th of July celebrations in Washington. This covers Monday 4th July through Sunday 10th July. Monday America the Beautiful 3:01 AM Disney + (New Series) – … Read more
