Emma Wakefield, from Derby, claimed staff at Manchester Airport confiscated Ben's life-saving medication and tipped away, without consulting his teacher first.
A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
Planet well-being and human health are interconnected issues – one cannot be achieved without the other, according to Kinari Webb, an American medical doctor, public health innovator and thought leader interviewed on the most recent episode of the Global Health Matters podcast. During the special “Dialogues” episode, Webb speaks with host Dr. Garry Aslanyan about […]
Hairballs, also known as trichobezoars, are a common occurrence in cats, especially those with long fur.
Out in West Texas, a pair of aspiring novelists and enterprising small-town newspaper owners, Barbara Brannon and Kay Ellington, were dismayed by the number of publications that were dropping book sections, cutting critics, and otherwise decimating literary coverage, especially in the Lone Star State. By the 2010s, “93 percent of the state’s newspapers offer no […]
Hunting for life on other planets is hard; it’s like trying to spot an ant on the other end of a football field. The closest potential host, Venus, is 25 million miles away. Beyond our Solar System, exoplanets that have piqued astronomers’ interest are light-years away. To search for life from these sizable distances, scientists look for biosignatures: elements, molecules, or substances that might have been made by life. These include oxygen and methane, among other compounds. But there’s...
A quiet place of reflection on the corner of on Aspen Creek Drive and Rush Drive stands to remember the loudest it ever got. When on April 27, 2014, 190 mph winds leveled nearly every home in the immediate area.
Peloton's Jessie Malone is running a marathon to mark one year since her Apple Watch saved her life by revealing a heart condition she was completely unaware she had. Malone is not just a young and fit woman who exercises regularly, she's a producer for Peloton in New York. Yet as she was cycling home in May 2023, her Apple Watch alerted her that she might have atrial fibrillation. "It was saying you need to seek medical attention immediately," she told Today.com, . "It was red and...
An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper transitioned from traffic detail to life-saving measures when he encountered a gunshot victim this past winter.
"Sometimes you start a book and never end it" - a day in the life of 911
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that the headlines are increasingly filled with warnings about an escalating mental health crisis in America.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Doctors who perform life-saving abortions may soon be required to document whether they first tried to transfer the patient to another facility to avoid terminating the pregnancy, a move some say goes beyond the language of the law. Health lawyers and doctors worry this proposed requirement further disincentivizes doctors from performing medically necessary, but...