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☆ FDA approves new drug that may help stop and even reverse a rare, fatal condition that doctors call a ‘ticking time bomb’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

These proteins cause the walls of a person’s blood vessels to keep growing and thicken over time. As the blood vessels narrow, the heart is forced to work harder to pump blood to the lungs. Treatment with a combination of drugs that dilate, or relax, blood vessels can improve this outlook, but they are not a cure. Both groups were also taking the standard medications for the condition, which help relax blood vessels to improve blood flow. But Galiatsatos said that as promising as the drug looks, there are still many unknowns, including whether the drug will benefit all PAH patients equally.

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☆ A myth about Irish immigrants who came to the US during the potato famine gets debunked in a new book
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

In part, that was because it was just impossible to trace Irish famine immigrants and find out what had happened to them. This is just inconceivable to anyone who had ever thought about the famine Irish given the obstacles that faced them. Biden is one of four US presidents who descended from Irish famine immigrants. The famine immigrants really were the ones who cemented the idea of the American Dream as we understand it today. At the time, the neighborhood was home to the more Irish immigrants than any other part of the city.

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☆ Tensions over Israel-Hamas war loom over Irish Taoiseach’s usually jovial annual visit to White House
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Kevin Liptak | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

There will still be shamrocks this year, but Israel’s war in Gaza is lending a darker backdrop to the occasion. While he rebuffed calls by some Irish politicians to boycott the annual White House stop, he has made plain the Gaza war lends fresh urgency to this year’s talks. “I’ll use that opportunity to put across Ireland’s perspective on this and tell them how Irish people feel. Last year, Varadkar declared Biden “unmistakably a son of Ireland” and announced the president’s forthcoming visit to the island. Barry’s opposition to Biden’s foreign policy predated the war in Gaza; he boycotted Biden’s address to the Dáil in April.

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☆ Trump Attends His Sister’s Funeral, but Does Not Speak
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Jacob Bernstein | More About Jacob Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Judge Barry refrained in her lifetime from publicly criticizing her famous brother. But in a series of surreptitiously recorded interviews in 2018 and 2019 with a niece, Mary L. Trump, she spoke scathingly of him. Judge Barry also spoke critically to her niece about the eulogy Donald Trump delivered at the 1999 memorial service for their father, the real estate mogul Fred C. Trump. “I don’t want any of my siblings to speak at my funeral,” Judge Barry continued. It was all about him.”Mr. Trump, who is the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination while facing 91 felony counts in four cases, has expressed deep admiration for Judge Barry over the years.

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☆ A Homeless Man Attacked Him. But Was There More to the Story?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Jesse Barron | More About Jesse Barron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

At least a few of the incidents had overlapping suspect descriptions: a white man in his 40s or 50s, at least 6 feet tall and weighing between 220 and 300 pounds. In the package that the district attorney sent to Hathaway, there was a grainy surveillance video of one of the previous attacks, which showed a heavyset white man approaching a man sleeping on the sidewalk, spraying him with a large canister and walking quickly away as the man writhed in pain. What kind of person would spray homeless people with bear mace? The answer, Hathaway would later tell the court, was clear: A person who says: “I’m a vigilante justice. I’m above and beyond the law.’”Until 2020, homelessness had not been a primary concern for Marina residents.

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☆ Barry's CEO went from joining the gym to running the business in 11 years: I 'never expect to know what's next'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Chris Dilella | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

In 2004, at the age of 26, Gonzalez took his first Barry's Bootcamp class in West Hollywood. "I had someone that I was dating at the time kind of challenged me to take a class," Gonzalez recalls. In 1998, entrepreneur Barry Jay established the inaugural Barry's Bootcamp in West Hollywood. And that was really how I like cut my teeth and got, you know, even more obsessed with the business," Gonzalez says. Joey Gonzalez Barry's CEOAfter North Castle Partners invested and named him CEO in 2015, Gonzalez started to build a strong leadership team.

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☆ 6 Podcasts to Help You Take an Actual Break This Summer
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Emma Dibdin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The name is a deliberate misnomer; there are no actual crimes on “Petty Crimes,” just the kinds of trivial mini-battles that inevitably arise when strangers coexist. Starter episode: “Signed, Karma”In a saturated marketplace of meditation apps, Headspace is a long-running mainstay. Hosted by Robin Hopkins, an actress and writer, “Dear Headspace” centers on listener-submitted questions about mental health, relationships, life transitions and more. In each episode, Hopkins answers questions alongside a rotating cast of Headspace meditation teachers, whose voices will be familiar to users of the app. This BBC radio program is tailor-made for those moments — immersive soundscapes from around the world, interspersed with snippets of gentle narration.

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☆ ‘The Flash’ Review: Electric Company
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Manohla Dargis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Flash, the latest DC Comics superhero to get his very own big show, isn’t the outfit’s usual brooding heavyweight. a billionaire), but an electrified nerd who joined the super-ranks by accident, not by birthright or by design. He’s really, really fast on his feet, you bet. That’s a relief, particularly given how the movie tries to clobber you into submission. If the bludgeoning feels more inescapable these days, it’s partly because the major studios now bank so heavily on superhero movies.

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It’s the start of a class known as high-intensity interval training, a combination of treadmill and weight-lifting, at the boutique fitness studio Barry’s. The brothers and Rondeau, who now serves as Planet Fitness’ chief executive, hit upon a concept. Planet Fitness’ tag, “judgement free zone” is true to form. Part of the appeal is its $10 a month basic membership fee – which hasn’t changed – that Planet Fitness primarily collects through electronic funds transfers. Still, with solid and regular profits and a reasonable amount of debt, Planet Fitness has staying power, even if shareholders lose their shirts while its valuation comes in line.

☆ Why egg prices are still going up
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But nothing comes close to the rise in egg prices. In the year through November, not adjusted for seasonal swings, egg prices jumped 49%, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wholesale prices hit a recordAvian flu has been a problem in the US for several months now, but in recent weeks wholesale prices have been hitting records. The supply squeeze isn’t the only thing contributing to higher egg prices, said Metz. Friday’s wholesale prices were the same as Thursday’s, the first time pricing held steady since October, she said.

☆ America Forgot the 1918 Flu. Will We Also Forget Covid?
▼ + stars: | 1918-10-18 | by ( Mark Oppenheimer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

My grandfather, Walter Kirschner, was born in Philadelphia in 1910, the sixth of eight children. His wife, my grandmother Rebekah, was also born in Philadelphia, in 1907; she was one of 10 children. Most of my grandparents and great-aunts and -uncles, all born between 1900 and 1913, lived into their 80s or 90s. In other words, I was raised among old people who, as young people, had seen their world rocked by the flu. The response was almost nil.” Bodies decomposed in their beds, with no one to remove them.

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