Posts by Sophie Clearwater
What You Should Know About the ‘Kissing Bug’ Disease
[ad_1] Millions of people around the world are estimated to have Chagas disease, a potentially fatal, parasitic illness that can lie dormant for years after the initial infection. Some 280,000 people in the U.S. are among them, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but the disease is not officially considered endemic…
Read MoreTravis Kelce Addresses Xavier Worthy’s Injury After Mid-Game Collison
[ad_1] An experienced hiker who competes in distance running, swimming and triathlons, Zane Wach was nearly felled by altitude sickness while hiking with his dad Ryan Wach on California’s Mount Whitney in June 2025. “He started to experience some hallucinations,” Ryan explained to to the SFGATE of the 14-year-old. “He knew he was hallucinating. He…
Read MoreFrom Subsidies to Sustained Growth: The Case for Cohort Models
[ad_1] Embedding entrepreneurs in collaborative, long-term programs accelerates revenue growth, job creation and leadership development. Unsplash+ For decades, U.S. economic development has leaned heavily on one-off grants, subsidies and incentive packages. While these tools inject capital, they rarely provide the long-term scaffolding small businesses need to thrive. Cohort-based programs like Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses…
Read MoreThis Traveling Exhibition in the U.K. Recasts Gladiators as More Than Sacrificial Lambs
[ad_1] A tinned, bronze gladiator’s helmet, found in Hawkedon, Suffolk, dating from the 1st century A.D. © 2024 The Trustees of the British Museum Popular interest in ancient Rome has surged in recent years, boosted by pop culture phenomena like Ridley Scott’s box office hit Gladiator II and the 2023 viral TikTok trend asking men…
Read MoreAI Is Revolutionizing Health Care. But It Can’t Replace Your Doctor
[ad_1] The next time you get a blood test, X-ray, mammogram, or colonoscopy, there’s a good chance an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm will first interpret the results even before your doctor has seen it. Over the course of just a few years, AI has spread rapidly into hospitals and clinics around the world. More than…
Read MoreMajor RFK Jr. Health Report Sows Vaccine Fears; Experts Push Back Hard
[ad_1] This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. The nation’s top health officials, regulators, and policy wonks huddled on the eighth floor of the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday to take a victory lap for a…
Read MoreHow to Tell If Your Outdoor Air Is Safe
[ad_1] When George Thurston leaves his cottage in the woods of Waccabuc, N.Y., to head for work, a pollution monitor clipped to his belt—called an AirBeam—shows pristine air quality. As he takes the train through the suburbs, the device’s digits rise, meaning more pollution. By the time he gets to his office in Manhattan, they’re…
Read More10 Questions to Ask Your Kid Besides ‘How Was School?’
[ad_1] Every parent has been on the receiving end of a one-word answer. You ask your kid how their day was, and they generously offer that it was “fine,” “good,” or “OK.” It probably triggers your own single-word reaction, even if you don’t say it out loud: “Ugh.” “As parents, we’re desperate for information,” says…
Read MoreTrump Cracks Down on Drug Ads
[ad_1] Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on drug companies to be more transparent about the risks associated with their prescription products. In a memorandum signed on Tuesday, the President ordered federal health agencies to enforce existing rules about misleading prescription drug advertisements. The order falls short of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.…
Read MoreErin Bates’ Husband Chad Paine Shares Health Update as She’s Transferred to New Hospital
[ad_1] “Looking back on my childhood and the way that my parents raised me, I can’t think of anything that was negative,” Erin Bates Pain (who joined the fam on May 2, 1991) told People. “Everything, looking back, is really positive, and we made the best memories.” While they didn’t have a television “we substituted…
Read More'Trash panda' at it again in Cedar Park, police say
[ad_1] AUSTIN (KXAN) — The “trash panda” is at it again in Cedar Park, after the police department said it responded to its third raccoon rescue this week. This is also the sixth racoon rescue in the past month. “Our Animal Control Officers want to remind you that this time of year, juveniles are out…
Read MoreTwo Texas Longhorn volleyball players awarded SEC weekly honors
[ad_1] AUSTIN (KXAN) — No. 2 Texas Volleyball remains undefeated after facing two opponents this past week, improving to 4-0 on the season. After the team’s most recent win over the No. 6 Stanford Cardinal, two Longhorns, junior Torrey Stafford and freshman Cari Spears, were awarded SEC weekly honors. Stafford was awarded two SEC honors…
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