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Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed or shrugged off Ruth Wilson’s rashes, swelling, fevers and severe pain for six years. She saved her life by begging for one more test in an emergency room about to send her home, again, without answers.That last-ditch test found the Massachusetts woman’s kidneys were failing. The culprit? Her immune system had been attacking her own body all that time and nobody caught it.“I just wish there was a better way that patients could get that diagnosis without having to go through all of the pain and all of, like, the dismissiveness and the gaslighting,” she said.Wilson…
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty goal — “to cure, prevent or manage all disease” — if not in their lifetime, then in their children’s. But during that time, they also funded underprivileged schools, immigration reform and efforts around diversity, equity and inclusion.Now, the billionaire couple is shifting the bulk of their philanthropic resources to Biohub, the pair’s science organization, and focusing on using artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery. The idea is to develop virtual, AI-based cell models to…
Slime, that gooey, sticky and often-homemade plaything, was enshrined into the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday along with perennial bestselling games Battleship and Trivial Pursuit.Each year, the Hall of Fame recognizes toys that have inspired creative play across generations, culling its finalists from among thousands of nominees sent in online. Voting by the public and a panel of experts decides which playthings will be inducted.Milton Bradley’s Battleship, a strategy game that challenges players to strike an opponent’s warships, and Trivial Pursuit, which tests players’ knowledge in categories like geography and sports, have each sold more than 100 million…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will host leaders of five Central Asian countries at the White House on Thursday as he intensifies his hunt for rare earth metals needed for high-tech devices, including smartphones, electric vehicles and fighter jets.Trump and the officials from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are holding an evening summit and dinner on the heels of Trump managing at least a temporary thaw with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on differences between the United States and China over the export of rare earth elements, a key point of friction in their trade negotiations.Early last month, Beijing…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The NFL’s first-ever game in Spain will feature a Latin music showcase with Argentine producer Bizarrap and Puerto Rican superstar Daddy Yankee set to perform during the halftime show.The two hitmakers will take the stage Nov. 16 when the Washington Commanders face the Miami Dolphins at Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, the league announced Thursday. It marks Daddy Yankee’s return to the stage after coming out of retirement, and his first live performance with Bizarrap, one of the world’s most streamed producers.“Getting the opportunity to headline the halftime show for the NFL’s first game in Spain is…
Independiente del Valle’s coaching staff initially found the numbers hard to believe. Pre-season training had begun and senior players were being outshone by a 17-year-old whose physical output was off the charts. Piero Hincapie had arrived.”He was breaking the GPS data every single day,” Miguel Angel Ramirez, the club’s former manager, and the man who gave Hincapie his professional debut, tells Sky Sports with a chuckle. “Speed, sprints, accelerations, high-intensity actions…” Hincapie’s natural gifts had earned him promotion to the senior squad ahead of even Chelsea’s Moises Caicedo or Paris Saint-Germain centre-back Willian Pacho, both of whom were in the…
Independiente del Valle’s coaching staff initially found the numbers hard to believe. Pre-season training had begun and senior players were being outshone by a 17-year-old whose physical output was off the charts. Piero Hincapie had arrived.”He was breaking the GPS data every single day,” Miguel Angel Ramirez, the club’s former manager, and the man who gave Hincapie his professional debut, tells Sky Sports with a chuckle. “Speed, sprints, accelerations, high-intensity actions…” Hincapie’s natural gifts had earned him promotion to the senior squad ahead of even Chelsea’s Moises Caicedo or Paris Saint-Germain centre-back Willian Pacho, both of whom were in the…
United States men’s national team coach Mauricio Pochettino has admitted that he is “missing” the Premier League and plans to return to return to work in England in the future.Pochettino was appointed as head coach of the United States in September 2024, four months after parting ways with Chelsea. He is preparing to lead the USMNT into the 2026 World Cup which is hosted jointly between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.”The Premier League is the best league in the world,” he told the BBC.”Of course I am missing it. I am so happy in America but also thinking one day…
KUWAIT: Kuwait on Thursday marks the 34th anniversary of extinguishing the last of 737 oil wells deliberately set on fire by Iraqi forces before their withdrawal in February 1991.The annual commemoration honors the efforts of Kuwaiti specialized teams and international partners who worked day and night for months to extinguish the wells and limit the environmental, economic, and social consequences of the fires.The final well, in Burgan field in Al-Ahmadi, was put out in 1991 in a ceremony attended by the late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, marking the end of heroic firefighting operations. During the occupation, Iraqi forces…
KUWAIT: Kuwait on Thursday marks the 34th anniversary of extinguishing the last of 737 oil wells deliberately set on fire by Iraqi forces before their withdrawal in February 1991. The annual commemoration honors the efforts of Kuwaiti specialized teams and international partners who worked day and night for months to extinguish the wells and limit the environmental, economic, and social consequences of the fires.The final well, in Burgan field in Al-Ahmadi, was put out in 1991 in a ceremony attended by the late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, marking the end of heroic firefighting operations. During the occupation, Iraqi…