An interview with the science writer Rebecca Skloot is presented in which she discusses her book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," which focuses on Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American woman whose cancerous cells were used to cre...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The family of a 95-year-old woman who died after being tasered by police in Australia paid tribute to her on Thursday, as the premier of the state where the incident occurred expressed confidence in its police force. Clare Nowland, who had dementia, ...
Noteworthy and Influential People Who've Died This Year The month of April saw the death of history’s first Latin American pope Associated PressMay 2, 2025 Create an Account Create a free account to save articles, sign up for newsletters and more. ...
After four decades, as James Krauseneck finally came to trial, prosecutors were betting on Michael Baden, that forensic pathologist they had engaged, and his theory of when Cathy most likely died — about 3:30 a.m. Michael Wolford: Well, they needed a Dr. Baden, who said basically that ...
whose most famous quote was “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.” The early women's suffrage movement quickly included women's organizations that also focused on prohibition, and the argument was that because of women's central role in the home and their charge to protect the family,...
front for the German Reich, or whose fathers or sons fell in World War I (Paragraph 3). The law also gave authorities the power to dismiss civil servants whose previous politi- cal activities afforded, under Nazi ideology, no assurance that they would, at any time, give their fullest ...
At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental surgery. Follow her incredible story.
You enter the basement where the first gas chamber experiment took place, you see punishment cells – standing cells where four people would be held standing for hours in complete airless darkness in a space that would be tight for one of them. You walk through the real gas chamber and see...
As a liberal, she wants a share of Mom and apple pie. “Those who describe themselves as liberals have more or less abandoned these kinds of groups,” said Sigmund, whose recipe was for “some spinach thing.” “I don’t think that motherhood with its qualities of nurturing and affirmatio...
Many cancers – including lymphomas, which come from immune cells – can cause lymph nodes to swell. Lymph nodes may also enlarge due to infection and inflammation. In the case of the Australian woman, whose name was not released, her lymph nodes were inflamed because of a reaction to the...