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An illustration of the blastocyst stage of embryo development at about five to nine days after fertilization. The outer layer will grow to form the placenta. The inner cells will become the fetus. Juan Gaertner/Getty Images/Science Photo Library hide caption toggle caption Juan Gaertner/Getty Images/Science Photo Library An illustration of the blastocyst stage of embryo development at about five to nine days after fertilization. The outer layer will grow to form the placenta. The inner cells will become the fetus. Juan Gaertner/Getty Images/Science Photo Library An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos can be considered “extrauterine children” under state…
Hurray for the Riff Raff sings of wandering the country, and discovering a “war on the people.”Tommy Kha / Shore Fire MediaFebruary 23, 2024, 10:18 AM ETThe open road is the great American literary device. Whether the example is Jack Kerouac or Tracy Chapman, the national canon is full of travel tales that observe America’s idiosyncrasies and inequalities, its dark corners and lost wanderers, but ultimately capture the hope that a better life is at the end of a long drive.One of the best new albums of this year joins that tradition but also diverges from it, right down to…
Taylor Swift made a terminally ill nine-year-old girl’s dream come true on Friday.At the first of her Sydney shows on her Eras tour, Swift chose young Scarlett, who is fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer, to be the recipient of her signed ’22’ fedora.Taylor has established a tradition where she gives a signed hat to one lucky fan in the crowd while singing her song, 22.Earlier on Friday, Scarlett’s step-mother Natalie had posted to social media that her step-daughter’s wish had been to meet Taylor.‘Scarlett was granted a “Wish” from the Make A Wish Foundation and her wish was to…
Sanna Stella Stacey Wescott/TNS via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stacey Wescott/TNS via Getty Images Sanna Stella Stacey Wescott/TNS via Getty Images Long before the world had heard of long COVID, Sanna Stella experienced first hand how a simple respiratory infection can shape shift into a chronic illness. In 2014, a case of bronchitis left Stella, a therapist who lives in the Chicago area, with debilitating fatigue. Within a month, she was barely able to walk from the couch to her kitchen table. Eventually, Stella learned she had chronic fatigue syndrome, now called myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or simply…
A school bus in the Kupiansk district of Kharkiv province transports troops from the front line in February 2023. (Photographs by Jędrzej Nowicki)How two years of war transformed a societyFebruary 23, 2024, 6 AM ETThe Kremlin planned to take Kyiv in three days, the rest of Ukraine in six weeks. As Russian troops poured across the border on February 24, 2022, one Russian columnist declared early victory. “Ukraine,” he wrote, “will no longer exist.” Instead, Kyiv was not taken, the column was retracted, and, two years later, Ukraine still exists. The 24 months of fighting have nevertheless exacted an extraordinary toll…
Author Wendy Mitchell passed away this week at the age of 68 after spending years documenting her battle with dementia. This is an extract from her bestselling 2018 book Somebody I Used to Know:Wendy Mitchell was a fit and healthy 56-year-old NHS manager when she began showing the first symptoms of dementia. A divorcee with two grown-up daughters, she was eventually diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Today she is 61 and still managing to live independently at her home in Yorkshire. In a powerful and deeply affecting memoir, she gives the first ever account of what it’s like to suffer this devastating disease by…
A study shows that abortion restrictions take a toll — not only on women who can’t access the procedure — but also on obstetricians who feel they can’t provide the care patients need.
The first few steps on the path toward living forever alongside the longevity enthusiast Bryan Johnson are straightforward: “Go to bed on time, eat healthy food, and exercise,” he told a crowd in Brooklyn on Saturday morning. “But to start, you guys are now going to do a breathing exercise.” He directed the 100-plus people gathered around him to put their hands on the shoulders of their neighbors, forming a series of concentric circles; he then counted as we inhaled and exhaled in unison.I had arrived at a bouldering gym for the first in a series of events held that…
Riyad Mahrez‘s wife Taylor Ward gave their baby three of her designer bags worth over £10,000 to play with – after moaning about struggling to ‘escape’ football.The WAG, 26, who’s the daughter of Real Housewives of Cheshire star Dawn and former Premier League player Ashley, gave her daughter Mila, 19 months, the luxury items to keep her occupied during the first episode of new Prime Video series Married to the Game.After retrieving a large classic Chanel handbag, which costs a minimum £9,240, as well as a Louis Vuitton number, from her walk-in wardrobe, Taylor told her one-year-old: ‘You love to…
Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), her medical care team announced Thursday. Here, Williams attends the world premiere of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show in New York on Oct. 28, 2019. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), her medical care team announced Thursday. Here, Williams attends the world premiere of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show in New York on Oct. 28, 2019. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Wendy Williams, the former TV talk show host and shock jock, has been diagnosed…