May 24—When the Disorientation Research Device stirs to life at the Naval Medical Research Unit Lab on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s Area B, visitors will know it. “It sounds like a hurricane, and it feels like an earthquake,” Richard Folga, engineering and technical support team lead at the unit, told recent visitors to the lab. […]
The women of Iran are dancing. Women blinded, with one eye, or one arm, are dancing. Iranian Kurds are dancing. Across Europe, Iranian dissidents are dancing. Iranians – often, relatives of the regime’s victims – are drinking to show their joy. The daughters of Minoo Majidi, a mother shot dead by security services during the 2022 […]
Apr. 10—BOSWELL, Pa. — Parents and students packed the North Star Central Elementary School library Tuesday to address the North Star school board, after dozens of North Star High School students mysteriously fell ill Thursday. “We still just have many questions that aren’t being answered,” parent Alison Maurer said. Maurer and several other parents questioned […]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Wichita Animal Shelter and Kansas Humane Society adopt out pets every day. But some may never find homes because they are sick. “I have never seen this much parvo coming into the shelter as I have this year,” says Lt. Derek Purcell, supervisor of Wichita Animal Services. Both shelters are […]
King Charles’s cancer diagnosis could bring the British royal family closer, his estranged son Prince Harry said in an interview with an American breakfast show. Buckingham Palace revealed 11 days ago that Charles had been diagnosed with a form of cancer and would postpone public engagements to undergo treatment. When asked if illness can have […]
The weekend of my 40th birthday, at 31 weeks pregnant, I was hospitalized with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). HG is a pregnancy-specific condition involving severe nausea and vomiting. I stood in the foyer of admitting, simultaneously throwing up and peeing my pants with every heave. This was my second hospitalization in two months. Readmission is quite […]
Scientists may have discovered the exact cause of morning sickness, the nausea and vomiting that often accompanies pregnancy — and with the discovery, better treatment options could be on the horizon. Researchers from the University of Southern California and University of Cambridge found the hormone GDF15 is produced in the placenta and a mother’s sensitivity […]