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Everybody’s Ejected After a Senators-Panthers Fight – Generic English

17May

By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments

Sports

Everybody’s Ejected After a Senators-Panthers Fight – Generic English

Associated media - Connected media Geraldine Tkachuk, the players’ grandmother, was spotted in the stands looking less than impressed. As remarkable as the 10-man ejection may have been, it barely seemed to faze the participants. “I mean, I don’t think it’s bad to play with emotion,” Brady Tkachuk told The Associated Press. “I think when this group plays with emotion, we’re a tough team to beat, and I think we rely on our emotion and it shows that we care, shows that we care about what we’re doing here and about the guy next to us.” Two more players got misconduct penalties later in the third period, bringing the total penalty minutes in the game to 167. Still, this being hockey, that wasn’t close to a record. In 2004, a series of brawls late in a game between the Senators and the Ph...

Teen Who Ate Spicy ‘One Chip Challenge’ Product Died of Cardiopulmonary Arrest – Generic English

17May

By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments

Business

Teen Who Ate Spicy ‘One Chip Challenge’ Product Died of Cardiopulmonary Arrest – Generic English

Linked media - Associated media Lois Wolobah, Harris’s mother, declined to comment on the report on Thursday. She has said previously that she believed that the single Paqui brand tortilla chip that her son ate hours before he died jeopardized his health. The chip, dusted with two very hot peppers, the Carolina Reaper and the Naga Viper, had a label on the box that read, “One Chip Challenge” and carried a warning — “Inside: One Extremely Hot Chip.” It came in a coffin-shaped box that bore an image of a skull with a snake coiled around it. Marketing materials for the chip dared customers to wait as long as possible after eating the chip before eating or drinking anything, and then to post their reactions on social media. In an interview in September, Ms. Wolobah said that her son’s sc...

When Families Fight Over a Relative With Dementia, It’s Time to Call in the Mediator – Generic English

17May

By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments

Health

When Families Fight Over a Relative With Dementia, It’s Time to Call in the Mediator – Generic English

Related media - Connected media The four adult children were in agreement. Their father, William Curry, a retired electrical engineer and business executive, was sinking deeper into dementia. They had found a memory care facility about a mile from their parents’ house in Chelmsford, Mass., where they thought Mr. Curry would do better. But their mother, Melissa, who was 83 when her family began urging her to make this change in 2016, remained determined to continue caring for her 81-year-old husband at home, despite the increasing toll on her own health. When her children raised the issue of a move, “she wouldn’t discuss it,” said her daughter, Shannon Curry, 56. “She’d clam up. Sometimes she’d cry.” Yet Melissa Curry’s memory was faltering, too. She would forget to give her husband h...

First Patient Begins Sickle Cell Gene Therapy That F.D.A. Approved – Generic English

15May

By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments

Health

First Patient Begins Sickle Cell Gene Therapy That F.D.A. Approved – Generic English

Associated media - Linked media Top of the Waiting List Last week, Kendric came prepared for the stem cell collection — he has spent many weeks in this hospital being treated for pain so severe that on his last visit, even morphine and oxycodone could not control it. He brought his special pillow with a Snoopy pillowcase that his grandmother gave him and his special Spider-Man blanket. And he had a goal. “I want to be cured,” he said. Bone marrow stem cells, the source of all the body’s red and white blood cells, are normally nestled in a person’s bone marrow. But Kendric’s doctors infused him with a drug, plerixafor, which pried them loose and let them float in his circulatory system. To isolate the stem cells, staff members at the hospital inserted a catheter into a vein in Kendric...

The Ages When You Feel Most Lonely and How to Reconnect – Generic English

14May

By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments

Health

The Ages When You Feel Most Lonely and How to Reconnect – Generic English

Related media - Connected media When Surgeon General Vivek Murthy went on a nationwide college tour last fall, he started to hear the same kind of question time and again: How are we supposed to connect with one another when nobody talks anymore? In an age when participation in community organizations, clubs and religious groups has declined, and more social interaction is happening online instead of in person, some young people are reporting levels of loneliness that, in past decades, were typically associated with older adults. It’s one of the many reasons loneliness has become a problem at both the beginning and end of our life span. In a study published last Tuesday in the journal Psychological Science, researchers found that loneliness follows a U-shaped curve: Starting from you...

Study Suggests Genetics as a Cause, Not Just a Risk, for Some Alzheimer’s – Generic English

13May

By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments

Health

Study Suggests Genetics as a Cause, Not Just a Risk, for Some Alzheimer’s – Generic English

Associated media - Associated media “This reconceptualization that we’re proposing affects not a small minority of people,” said Dr. Juan Fortea, an author of the study and the director of the Sant Pau Memory Unit in Barcelona, Spain. “Sometimes we say that we don’t know the cause of Alzheimer’s disease,” but, he said, this would mean that about 15 to 20 percent of cases “can be tracked back to a cause, and the cause is in the genes.” The idea involves a gene variant called APOE4. Scientists have long known that inheriting one copy of the variant increases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, and that people with two copies, inherited from each parent, have vastly increased risk. The new study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, analyzed data from over 500 people with two copie...

Lead in Beethoven’s Hair Offers New Clues to Mystery of His Deafness – Generic English

12May

By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments

Health

Lead in Beethoven’s Hair Offers New Clues to Mystery of His Deafness – Generic English

Related media - Connected media As he lay on his deathbed, his publisher gave him a gift of 12 bottles of wine. By then Beethoven knew he could never drink them. He whispered his last recorded words: “Pity, pity — too late!” For a composer, deafness had been perhaps the worst affliction. At age 30, 26 years before his death, Beethoven wrote: “For almost 2 years I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people: I am deaf. If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity, but in my profession it is a terrible handicap. And if my enemies, of whom I have a fair number, were to hear about it, what would they say?” When he was 32, Beethoven mourned that he could not hear a flute, or a shepherd singing, which, he wrote,...

Robert Oxnam, China Scholar Beset by Multiple Personalities, Dies at 81 – Generic English

11May

By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments

Health

Robert Oxnam, China Scholar Beset by Multiple Personalities, Dies at 81 – Generic English

Associated media - Related media Mr. Bouton said that he had not been aware of the full extent of Dr. Oxnam’s alcoholism and that he had had inklings about his behavioral problems. He said that it was remarkable that Dr. Oxnam had been able to work through them. But in 1992, Dr. Oxnam told the society’s board that he was going to resign. “The Bob part of me was touched that they pressured me to reconsider,” he wrote in his book. But he left. In addition to his wife, whom he married in 1993 and who was president of the Asia Society from 2004 to 2012, his survivors include his daughter, Deborah Betsch, and his son, Geoff Oxnam, both from his marriage to Barbara Foehl, which ended in divorce in 1993, and four grandchildren. After leaving the Asia Society, Dr. Oxnam hosted and wrote a se...

Surrogate motherhood in Hialeah (Florida): A solution for infertility

10May

By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments

Surrogacy

Surrogate motherhood in Hialeah (Florida): A solution for infertility

Surrogate motherhood in Hialeah (Florida): What does this process mean? Surrogacy, gestational surrogacy or assisted gestative, all valid terms, indicate a procedure in which a woman (called the "surrogate" or "surrogate mother") carries a pregnancy to term on behalf of another person or couple (called the "intended" or "biological parents"). This implies that the surrogate becomes pregnant through artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization using the egg and sperm of the birth or donor parents, but has no intention of raising the child once it is born. Instead, the birth parents assume legal and emotional responsibility for the child from the moment of birth. Surrogacy is used in situations where an individual or couple is unable to carry a pregnancy due to medical problems, i...

Surrogate motherhood in Tempe (Arizona): Key steps and important considerations

10May

By Ricky B CollinsNo Comments

Surrogacy

Surrogate motherhood in Tempe (Arizona): Key steps and important considerations

Surrogate motherhood in Tempe (Arizona): What does this process mean? Surrogacy, gestational surrogacy or assisted gestative, all valid terms, indicate a procedure in which a woman (called the "surrogate" or "surrogate mother") carries a pregnancy to term on behalf of another person or couple (called the "intended" or "biological parents"). This implies that the surrogate becomes pregnant through artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization using the egg and sperm of the birth or donor parents, but has no intention of raising the child once it is born. Instead, the birth parents assume legal and emotional responsibility for the child from the moment of birth. Surrogacy is used in situations where an individual or couple is unable to carry a pregnancy due to medical problems, inf...