Nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented, delayed by managing risk factors, report finds The number of people living with dementia is expected to triple by the year 2050 to 153 million people as the global population ages. Now a new report highlights the risk factors for dementia that if ... 08/1/2024 - 5:58 am | View Link
Should I count steps or time how long I exercise? Both work. Be active any way that suits Should you do thousands of steps a day, or 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a week, as the World Health Organization advises? It doesn’t matter, just as long as you are active, ... 07/29/2024 - 8:15 pm | View Link
Are restaurant inspections adequate in Fresno County? Not even close, grand jury says The Fresno County Grand Jury, in a report issued Wednesday, declared that the Fresno County Health Department and its Environmental Health Division lack enough inspectors to adequately oversee the ... 07/22/2024 - 1:30 am | View Link
Few chicken products account for most Salmonella cases, study finds Raw poultry is one of the main causes of Salmonella poisoning, which affects thousands of people in the U.S. every year. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows that few ... 07/14/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Is Drinking Alcohol on Airplanes Bad for You? Study Finds Surprising Side Effects Researchers found that both drinkers and non-drinkers in the normal pressure setting had relatively stable blood oxygen concentrations and heart rates ... alcohol before falling asleep had ... 07/8/2024 - 1:30 am | View Link
Sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson is representing Team USA at the Paris Summer Olympics.
Her appearance at the Olympics finishes off a three-year ordeal that began before the Tokyo Games, when Richardson tested positive for cannabis—a banned substance under World Anti-Doping Agency Rules—after bursting into the American sporting consciousness with an outstanding performance at the Olympic trials in 2021.
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Here’s a detailed look at why Sha’Carri Richardson was suspended from the Tokyo Olympics and the impact that setback had on the athlete.
Why was Sha’Carri Richardson suspended?
MIAMI — A tropical depression over Cuba is growing better organized, forecasters said Saturday, and is likely to bring drenching rain and coastal flooding to much of Florida’s Gulf Coast.
The storm strengthened into a tropical depression late Friday, and is expected to become a tropical storm by Saturday night, once it has maximum sustained winds of 39 mph (63 kph) or more.
More than two decades after the horrific September 11th attack that claimed the lives of nearly 3000 innocent people, and countless others due to long term health issues related to the attack, the Department of Defense finally announced that they had reached a plea agreement with three of the masterminds.
PARIS — IOC President Thomas Bach said Saturday the “hate speech” directed at boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting at the Paris Olympics is “totally unacceptable.”
“We will not take part in a politically motivated … cultural war,” Bach said at a news briefing at the midway point of the games, that also tried to draw a line under days of global scrutiny about the female boxers’ gender.
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“What is going on in this context in the social media with all this hate speech, with this aggression and abuse, and fueled by this agenda, is totally unacceptable,” the International Olympic Committee leader said.
Khelif of Algeria and Lin of Taiwan have been the focus of intense attention — and often inaccurate commentary — because both were disqualified at the 2023 world championships.
The Russian-led International Boxing Association — which has been banished from the Olympics by the IOC in a yearslong dispute — removed the boxers from the worlds 16 months ago in India citing gender-based tests that are still unspecified and unproven.
Read More: Olympic Boxers Don’t Want to Talk About the Gender Controversy
The women’s boxing issue was linked by Bach to what he called a wider, Russian-led campaign against the IOC and Paris Olympics where only 15 Russian athletes are competing, and as neutrals without their national identity.
This weekend Vice President Kamala Harris is said to be interviewing the final candidates for her own vice presidential running mate. The final candidates to be considered include the Democratic governors of Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Kentucky along with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. If Harris wants to sustain the momentum of her campaign and give herself the best chance to win in November, we believe that Pennsylvania Gov.
Dear Eric: In 2012, my father died leaving valuable land as part of his estate. After selling the property, I paid off my two daughters’ homes, saving them more than $500,000 in future payments.
My ex-wife and mother of my daughters passed away a couple of years ago. She had a son by another husband.