Author: Michelle Korhonen
‘It’s not just Pru forgetting things. Sometimes you wake up to the fact you’ve got a grandchild you’d forgotten you have’: A deeply moving interview with Timothy West and Prunella Scales as they battle her worsening dementia – Sound health and lasting wealth
If the thrive post has a patron saint, it is Nicole Kidman. Specifically, Kidman the day she finalized her divorce from Tom Cruise, when she was photographed by paparazzi leaving her attorney’s office with her arms blissfully extended, her mouth a wide, Whitmanian yawp. She is undeniably free. The image has since become a meme—and inspiration for people leaving relationships. If you catch a friend posting this photo, assume that they’re recently single.What I call “thrive posts” are the things people share on social media in the aftermath of a breakup to signal that they’ve moved on and are thriving.…
As the old adage has it, an institution is only as good as the people who work within it. So while we plough ever more billions of pounds into the ailing NHS, why are our politicians doing so little to remedy its acute and growing staffing crisis?Figures released last week from NHS Digital show that the proportion of roles filled by non-UK nationals is at a record high.A fifth of NHS staff in England are non-UK nationals, with workers from 214 countries – from India, Portugal and Ghana to small nations such as Tonga, Liechtenstein and the Solomon Islands. And…
Health authorities have advised to avoid eating raw cheddar cheese, both in the shredded and block form, as well as in the original and jalapeño flavor, from the brand Raw Farm. The Food and Drug Administration hide caption toggle caption The Food and Drug Administration Health authorities have advised to avoid eating raw cheddar cheese, both in the shredded and block form, as well as in the original and jalapeño flavor, from the brand Raw Farm. The Food and Drug Administration At least 10 people across four states — California, Colorado, Texas and Utah — have been made ill from…
This wasn’t supposed to be Patrick Mahomes’s year—that’s the scary part.There were plenty of times this season when the Kansas City Chiefs and their star quarterback looked vulnerable, including a stretch when they lost four out of six games. Yet the end result was the same as it was last season: Mahomes won another Super Bowl, and notched another Super Bowl MVP, and now the rest of the football world is stuck with the gloomy reality that for the foreseeable future, any path to the Super Bowl means upending a generational player who is on a collision course to be…
Prince Harry was ‘blocked’ from having a heart-to-heart with King Charles by Palace aides over fears ‘they’d never get rid of him’, it was claimed last night.Following the King’s cancer diagnosis, it is believed the Duke of Sussex had hoped to join him for a few days at Sandringham when he touched down in London last week. However, according to an insider he was instructed to visit Clarence House, his father’s London home, for a short managed face-to-face meeting before being told to get himself a hotel for the night. ‘Harry came over to see his father, expecting to go to Sandringham. But instead…
Nearly 20 years ago, during one of many family trips back to Ethiopia, I spent months wandering through the sprawling capital city. All summer, it seemed, the drivers and cyclists of Addis Ababa were blasting the Ethiopian pop star Teddy Afro’s “Promise,” an infectious, reggae-inflected ode more often referred to by the name of the musician it lionizes: “Bob Marley.”That 2005 song praised Marley for his commitment to Africa—and argued, more than 23 years after his death, that he be reburied in the motherland. (When he died, Marley was buried inside a small Ethiopian Orthodox–style church in Nine Mile, the…
Sunday will mark one year since former President Jimmy Carter entered hospice care, returning to his longtime family home in Plains, Georgia and forgoing further life-prolonging treatments.The anniversary is another testament to the 99-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner’s grit and steadfast determination even in the twilight of life, after he beat cancer in 2015. Carter was last seen publicly in November, when he rallied to attend his wife Rosalynn Carter’s funeral at Maranatha Baptist Church where they worshipped, saying his final farewell to her after 77 years of marriage.Family members say that he was determined to hang on even after entering hospice…
Amtagvi is the first cell therapy for solid tumors approved by the FDA. Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. hide caption toggle caption Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. Amtagvi is the first cell therapy for solid tumors approved by the FDA. Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a novel type of cancer therapy to treat aggressive forms of melanoma using immune system cells from a patient’s tumor. The treatment, called Amtagvi, was developed by Iovance Biotherapeutics, a biotech company based in San Carlos, Calif. It is intended for patients whose melanoma cannot be removed with surgery or has spread to other…
A dark, satiric sensibility is a basic qualification for anyone in the Russian opposition. Those leaders I knew in Moscow, before I left Russia in 2022, liked to crack jokes during interviews with journalists and to judges at court hearings. Boris Nemtsov, though he had been arrested many times and knew he should worry for his life, would laugh at President Vladimir Putin’s Russia as the “gangster state of absurdity.” He told the story of the time pro-Putin activists had sent a prostitute to his vacation hotel in a bungled attempt to fabricate kompromat.In 2015, Nemtsov was shot in his…