Author: Lance Garrison

Doug Fugate loves to travel. But going places can require lots of walking and long-stretches of sitting — in cars, trains, or airplanes. And that can be tricky because Fugate has peripheral artery disease (PAD), in which narrowed arteries prevent blood from flowing easily to his legs and arms.Fugate, who’s 58 and lives in Austin, TX, has had two femoral-popliteal bypasses to open blocked arteries in his legs. He wants to keep these bypasses open. When he travels, Fugate makes sure to move frequently, even when he is on a plane. “Walking is often the best medicine for PAD,” he…

The first sign of trouble that Steve Hamburger of Westlake Village, CA, noticed was pain in his legs when he was trying to sleep. He later found out he has peripheral artery disease (PAD).Luckily, his family already knew about PAD — and what it would mean for them.“I am very fortunate to have a family with a medical/athletic background,” Hamburger says. “My wife spent her career in the medical field as a manager of radiology and my older son spent a number of years being an EMT,” Hamburger says. “When I was first diagnosed my wife understood how PAD could…

A few years ago, Dale Smith was unable to walk more than 10 or 15 paces at work before leg and toe pain forced her to sit and rest. As assistant manager of a grocery store in Beebe, AR, that was a big problem. “I have to constantly be on the floor walking,” says Smith, now 61.Following a visit to her cardiologist, after she had a heart attack a year earlier, Smith learned she had peripheral artery disease (PAD), a narrowing of the arteries that mainly occurs in the legs. She had an angioplasty procedure done in a leg artery…

To the Editor:Re “House Expels George Santos From Congress in Historic Vote” (nytimes.com, Dec. 1):I appreciate that the House has finally voted to rid itself of Representative George Santos.It is, however, a disgrace that a majority of House Republicans who voted were in opposition to expulsion.The scathing report issued by the House Ethics Committee sealed Mr. Santos’s fate, as its exhaustive and lengthy investigation shone an even more clear light on the multitude of lies he has told and the frauds he perpetrated. The man the voters of his New York district elected to the House was not the man…

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects your blood flow. But its signs and symptoms can show up on your skin.Many people with PAD notice changes on the skin of their feet and legs, such as:Cool to the touchRedness or changes in colorChanges in texture (skin can be brittle or shiny in spots)Thinning of leg hairSores on your toes and feet that take a long time to heal“The skin is the largest organ in the body, and while it may be considered ‘external,’ the skin can often reflect the health and wellness of internal organs,” says dermatologist Jeremy A. Brauer, MD, founder…

One thing I did not expect amid these shifts was that arguments on behalf of Israel would themselves stray from Shoah exceptionalism by arguing that Hamas is worse than the Nazis. But maybe it makes sense, as response to the diminished memory of the Holocaust, that there would be uppings of the rhetorical ante along with invocations of the past.The conservative writer Douglas Murray offered a version of this case in an interview a couple of weeks ago, and then the historian Andrew Roberts offered the argument at length in an essay for The Washington Free Beacon. Here’s an excerpt:For…

More than eight million Americans have peripheral artery disease (PAD), in which narrowed or blocked arteries lead to circulatory problems in the arms and legs (especially the legs), making it hard to walk without pain. Yet what people with PAD may not realize is that the condition also puts them at a higher risk for coronary artery disease, heart attack, and stroke.“Patients who have lower extremity PAD have a greater than 80% chance of having some degree of coronary artery disease or carotid artery stenosis (narrowing of the carotid arteries that supply blood to the brain),” says Lee Kirksey, MD,…

In her opinion for a bare five-justice majority, she relied heavily on a pair of amicus briefs. One was by a group of major corporations, led by General Motors, that argued, in Justice O’Connor’s words, “the skills needed in today’s increasingly global marketplace can only be developed through exposure to widely diverse people, cultures, ideas, and viewpoints.” The other brief came from a group of retired military leaders, including H. Norman Schwarzkopf. “Based on decades of experience,” the military leaders, later quoted by O’Connor, argued, “a highly qualified, racially diverse officer corps is essential to the military’s ability to fulfill…

For the first time in what seems like forever, Judith Taylor sleeps without interruption. She’s not awakened by pain or numbness in her feet caused by the peripheral artery disease (PAD) she was diagnosed with 3 years ago. She doesn’t need an extra blanket and socks to keep her left foot, which had the poorest circulation, warm.“This foot was so cold it would wake me up in the middle of the night,” says Taylor, 68, a minister in Shreveport, LA. “Now it’s the foot that keeps the other one warm.” Judith Taylor As one of the more than 8.5 million…

Before we wallow in the downfall of George Santos, allow me a toast of appreciation to the freshly defrocked lawmaker and his fellow lawmakers. It takes a lot to get booted from the House by one’s colleagues, but the New York Republican really applied himself. And while his 11 very weird months in office were a stain on American democracy, here’s hoping his departure serves to reassure a politically disillusioned nation that there is a level of deception, corruption and lunacy too extra even for Congress. It is a nice reminder that, on special occasions, most lawmakers still know how…