Extraordinary things happen in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The sick rise from bed with new hearts and lungs. Machines valiantly take over for faltering kidneys, heart valves, bronchial tubes. All patients enter with grave health concerns, and the vast majority leave recovered, or at least on the road
As unwelcome news goes, a cancer diagnosis rates highly. But probably worse is being told, as I was, that it is advanced and incurable. And then there was this: discovering my cancer could have been spotted earlier and, if it had been, potentially cured. It all started shortly before my 69th birthday in the summer
She rose to fame playing the prim and proper Princess Anne in The Crown. But Erin Doherty revealed her potty mouth to Today programme listeners tuning into Radio 4 on Wednesday morning. While promoting her new Netflix series Adolescence alongside co-star Stephen Graham, Erin, 32, became embroiled in a conversation about pretentious language used by actors.
The chilling screams of a young woman came from a desolate, debris-strewn urban hinterland between salvage yards and railroad tracks on Quintana Road in the outskirts of San Antonio. When a man who worked for a nearby paving company, Ricardo Quintero, followed the sounds, he came across a ghastly scene. A trailer had its doors
As targets for satire, flamboyant pop stars and celebrity journalists are low-hanging fruit — maybe even slightly mushy, rotten fruit. But in “Opus,” Mark Anthony Green, a former style columnist for GQ making his first feature as writer and director, bids to say something trenchant about fame while cementing his reputation as a sleek new
The requirement for a High Court judge to approve assisted dying applications has been dropped by the committee considering the bill. The clause had been heralded by the bill’s supporters as a safeguard that made it the strictest such legislation in the world. But the Ministry of Justice and senior judges raised concerns about the
A friend of three college students who were killed in a fiery Cybertruck crash has told of the haunting request his friend made before dying behind the wheel. Soren Dixon, Jack Nelson and Krysta Tsukahara, all 19 years old, died in the crash in Piedmont, California, at 3am on November 27. Four months on from the fatal
Last Updated:March 08, 2025, 16:27 IST Legendary actor Gene Hackman lived next to the body of Betsy Hackman in their New Mexico home. Gene Hackman poses during the 60th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, US. (IMAGE: REUTERS) Veteran Hollywood actor Gene Hackman lived next to the dead body of wife Betsy Hackman
The quality of a man’s semen doesn’t just predict how likely he is to have kids – it is also a key marker for his own longevity. A major new study spanning over 50 years found men with low sperm quality die nearly three years earlier, on average, than their peers with healthy swimmers. Medical
Mark Labbett has revealed his heartbreaking fear of dying before his son graduates as he continues with impressive weight loss journey. The professional quizzer, 59, who joined ITV ’s The Chase for its debut in 2009 as The Beast, is a father seven-year-old Lawrence, who he shares with ex-wife Katie. And while his downfall has