The cast of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever were out in full force at the Hollywood premiere on Wednesday, October 26. As expected, there was plenty of excellent fashion on the red carpet: Rihanna arrived in an offbeat look by Rick Owens, while Letitia Wright paid a touching tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman in a...
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Trump snubs DeSantis by leaving him out of Miami rally
Don to Ron: You’re not invited! Former President Donald Trump left Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis off his invitation list for a planned pre-election day rally with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in Miami. Trump announced Rubio as a “special guest” for the rally on Sunday, Nov. 6 and noted that he has endorsed the onetime rival,...
‘Sharing my story is a superpower’: the doctor offering hope to Crohn’s sufferers in Ethiopia | Global development
In her fourth year at university in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Fasika Teferra was on her way to becoming a doctor when the pain started. When she finally went for a colonoscopy eight months later, she was hoping for a simple lesion to be found. Instead, the camera was showing a more serious disease and, as...
Illinois School Board of Education releases 2022 Report Card
2022 marks the first complete Illinois Report Card since 2019. The Illinois School Board of Education released the latest report card for the state Thursday morning. While the pandemic’s affects are still being felt, as the data indicates, ISBE is counting some notable wins in the area of high school graduation rates, students’ academic growth...
African health official: Ebola in Uganda is under control
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s Ebola outbreak is under control, a top public health official in Africa said Thursday, noting that local health authorities are doing well to trace most contacts. “The situation is not getting out of control,” said Dr. Ahmed Ogwell, acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We have...
The RSV surge didn’t come out of nowhere, but gaps in data made it tougher to predict
CNN — The United States is dealing with a unique season of respiratory virus transmission: Flu cases are on the rise earlier than usual, and RSV case rates are extra high, even after an “unprecedented” early surge this summer. And Covid-19 is still a public health emergency. Public health experts expected a break from typical...
News brief: voters consider inflation, dirty bomb claim, respiratory infection surge
How might Americans’ experience with inflation translate into votes? Putin raises the stakes as he watches Russia practice for nuclear war. Hospitals near capacity with severe virus patients. #News #voters #inflation #dirty #bomb #claim #respiratory #infection #surge Source link
A question to keep parents up at night: whether to allow their children into their bed | Parents and parenting
A passing comment by the Hollywood actor Christina Ricci that she shares a bed with her eight-year-old son became an international news story last month. Whereas she has her bed invaded by her older child, her youngest sleeps soundly solo. “The fact that I can put her down in her crib and she just goes...
Fungal Pathogens; ‘Tripledemic’ Possible; and Why We Like Horror
WHO Warns of Fungal Pathogens The UN’s World Health Organization issued its first list of dangerous fungal pathogens and warned that some drug-resistant strains are growing and pose a threat to human health. The WHO also recommended more surveillance to assess the level of threat and greater development of diagnostics and treatments. The list contained...
ECMO May Come With Mental Health Costs
Use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was associated with a modestly increased risk of new mental health diagnoses in patients treated for critical illness in an intensive care unit (ICU), a retrospective cohort study in Canada showed. Among adult survivors who received ECMO, incidence of a new mental health diagnosis was 22.1 per 100 person-years...