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BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore County police officer is accused of using excessive force when he pepper sprayed a handcuffed man in the face and closed him inside a hot patrol car, even as the man repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe. A 19-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department, Small previously served in the Military Police, according to his attorney. “Like all citizens, Officer Small is entitled to the presumption of innocence,” attorney Brian Thompson said in an email. Small tried to slam the car door, but the man’s knee was in the way. It says the man started gasping, choking and calling for help while kicking the car door to get officers’ attention.

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☆ NYU Langone Fired Him for His Anti-Hamas Posts. He’s Suing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | More About Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

A prominent doctor is suing NYU Langone Health after he was fired as director of its cancer center over his social media postings about the Israel-Hamas war. Dr. Neel is one of two doctors whom NYU Langone has removed for online postings since the war began last month. The lawsuit could put NYU Langone under the microscope in the widening debate. “They should take away their scholarships,” Dr. Grossman wrote in a message to Dr. Neel in October. In a statement, NYU Langone said Dr. Neel’s decision to share those emails was just him “lashing out for being held accountable.”“The emails referenced in the suit were among colleagues and Dr. Neel is now making them public in an effort to pressure NYU Langone,” the statement said.

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Sakran decided to work in medicine after becoming a victim of gun violence as a teenager. In the hours following the shooting, Morgan State officials canceled all remaining homecoming week events, including Saturday’s football game. It unfolded around 9:30 p.m., shortly after a coronation ceremony for this year’s Mister and Miss Morgan State in the campus auditorium. He visited the White House last month for President Joe Biden’s announcement of the first ever federal office of gun violence prevention. Sakran referenced the Morgan State shooting in a post Wednesday morning on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying he was grateful for his Johns Hopkins trauma team colleagues.

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☆ Opinion | The Unsettled Debate at the Heart of the Henrietta Lacks Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To an ordinary person, the answer is obviously yes. Lacks, a Black mother of five, was dying of cervical cancer in 1951 when doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore biopsied tissues from her cervix. Whatever the case, cells from the research sample were later found to be highly valuable because they were the first that could divide indefinitely in a laboratory. And cells are “de-identified,” unlike Lacks’s cells, which are named HeLa to this day. What’s still debated is whether people have a legitimate ownership claim in the first place.

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☆ Family of Henrietta Lacks finally settles lawsuit against biotech company accused of profiting billions of dollars from collecting the Black woman's cancer cells without her consent
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Lea Skene | Sarah Brumfield | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Henrietta Lacks changed modern medicine when doctors took her cells without her consent in 1951. Despite that incalculable impact, the Lacks family had never been compensated. Henrietta Lacks' cells have been part of many medical breakthroughs. "The exploitation of Henrietta Lacks represents the unfortunately common struggle experienced by Black people throughout history," the complaint reads. "It was a long fight — over 70 years — and Henrietta Lacks gets her day."

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☆ Fact-Checking the Kickoff to Biden’s Re-election Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Linda Qiu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Moreover, Mr. Biden’s first two years in office followed historic job losses wrought by the coronavirus pandemic in Donald J. Trump’s presidency. Mr. Biden was born in November 1942 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Scranton, Penn., according to biographies. Mr. Finnegan died at St. Mary’s Hospital, but in May 1957, when Mr. Biden was a teenager, not before he was born. What Mr. Biden Said“My first two years in office I’ve lowered the deficit by a record $1.7 trillion.”This needs context. But much of that decline can be attributed to the expiration of pandemic-era spending, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which presses for lower levels of spending.

☆ AI and Facial Recognition May Be Able to Spot Stroke and Other Diseases
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Eric Niiler | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital who are suspected of having a stroke might get an unusual request from physicians: Can we film your face? The doctors’ goal is to identify stroke patients by facial characteristics instead of waiting for brain scans or blood tests, helping speed both treatment and recovery. The Johns Hopkins team is training a computer algorithm to recognize changes in the patients’ features, such as the paralysis of certain facial muscles or unusual eye movements, that might indicate damage to the brain from a stroke as opposed to seizures, severe migraines or anxiety disorders.

☆ AI and Facial Recognition May Be Able to Spot Stroke and other Diseases
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Eric Niiler | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Both of my adult children moved back home and pay rent to me – here's what it's like being their landlord
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

My two adult children pay a fee that covers their utilities, phone bills, and a family gym membership. My two adult children have lived at home with my husband and I for nearly two years now, but our arrangement is a bit different than other families who make this decision. When he first moved in, we allowed him six months rent-free before we asked him to start paying rent last month. She's an adult, and as of now, she's recovered – what she does is her choice. Although our situation is unique, I definitely think at a certain age adult children need to move out.

☆ Woman with a rare brain disease says doctors repeatedly dismissed her condition, blaming it on mental illness
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

She has since been diagnosed with Moyamoya disease, a rare brain condition that affects fewer than 1 in 100,000 people. However, she said the earlier opinion caused a substantial delay in her Moyamoya diagnosis, adding: "everywhere I went, it followed me first. Moyamoya disease is caused by a narrowing of blood vessels in the brain. However, he noted that, in general, that a condition is rare is no excuse for dismissing a patient's symptoms. Still struggling to access careIn spite of her Moyamoya disease diagnosis, Simpson says she's still struggling to access support.

☆ Harvard professor says 'winning a $20 million lottery won't make you happier in life'—but these 4 things will
▼ + stars: | 2019-05-31 | by ( Kyle Young | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"Winning a $20 million lottery ticket won't make you happier. In the talk, Chopra explains the four things that have been scientifically linked to happiness:1. A study from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University found that giving, rather than receiving, leads to long-term happiness. "Those who spent money on themselves reported a steady decline in happiness over the five-day period. Gratitude"There's a wonderful anonymous quote that goes, 'If you don't know the language of gratitude, you'll never be on speaking terms with happiness,'" Chopra tells the audience.

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