Have you ever thought about what happens when your lungs get hurt? Things like pneumonia, sepsis, or even COVID-19 can cause a huge inflammatory reaction, leading to conditions like acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). These issues happen when different types of lu
Meet little Emma, a 10-year-old girl who had been experiencing some weird symptoms. She kept having strokes, which sounded really scary for someone so young. Doctors were puzzled because strokes usually happen to much older people. Emma also had a high fever that wouldn't go away, and her skin was c
NBCUniversal has just hired Val Boreland as the President of Entertainment for its spinoff company, SpinCo. This means she’ll be in charge of shows on cable networks like USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E! , Syfy, and Golf Channel. Boreland’s experience shows she knows how to buy and create good c
Just seven months before the destructive Palisades Fire swept through Los Angeles, the city slashed more than $17. 5 million from its fire department budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. The total budget for the fire department was set at $819. 64 million, down from the previous year's $837. 2 mill
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After Party Studios, a digital content company, has just gotten stronger with two new hires. Sam Ewen and Ayesha Mittal have joined the team from different backgrounds. Ewen will take on the new role of Head of Entertainment, focusing on growing the business in the entertainment sector. Mittal, on t
The recent wildfires in Los Angeles have sparked a lot of discussions about what went wrong. Instead of blaming individuals, let's look at the bigger picture. The city's mayor, Karen Bass, was more focused on international trips and virtual press conferences when the fires started. She even made a b
LA Mayor Karen Bass returned to a city on fire, both literally and politically, after a trip to Ghana. When Sky News journalist David Blevins cornered her at the airport, Bass refused to discuss the wildfires. "No, I'm not going to do that, " she said. Blevins pressed on, asking if she had anything
Val Boreland, a top executive known for scoring big content deals for NBCUniversal's cable networks, has been tapped to lead the entertainment division of a new spin-off company. This new entity, dubbed "SpinCo, " will be a separate, publicly traded part of NBCUniversal and is expected to launch lat
Pilates has been shown to have numerous benefits for older adults, but recent research has also explored how these benefits might interact with something many of us start our day with: caffeine. Scientists decided to investigate how consuming caffeine affects the body before and after an 8-week Pila
