Health

Connected media - Linked media As he lay on his deathbed, his publisher gave him a gift of 12 bottles of wine. By then Beethoven knew he could never drink them. He whispered his last recorded words: “Pity, pity — too late!” For a composer, deafness had been perhaps the worst affliction. At age 30, 26 years before his death, Beethoven wrote: “For almost 2 years I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people: I am deaf. If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with…

Associated media - Linked media Mr. Bouton said that he had not been aware of the full extent of Dr. Oxnam’s alcoholism and that he had had inklings about his behavioral problems. He said that it was remarkable that Dr. Oxnam had been able to work through them. But in 1992, Dr. Oxnam told the society’s board that he was going to resign. “The Bob part of me was touched that they pressured me to reconsider,” he wrote in his book. But he left. In addition to his wife, whom he married in 1993 and who was president of the…

Connected media - Related media The loss of biodiversity played an especially large role in driving up disease risk, the researchers found. Many scientists have posited that biodiversity can protect against disease through a phenomenon known as the dilution effect. The theory holds that parasites and pathogens, which rely on having abundant hosts in order to survive, will evolve to favor species that are common, rather than those that are rare, Dr. Rohr said. And as biodiversity declines, rare species tend to disappear first. “That means that the species that remain are the competent ones, the ones that are really…

Connected media - Linked media Dr. Clinton White, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, said microscopic tapeworm eggs are sticky and easily transferred from one person to another. Once hatched, the larvae can travel in the bloodstream, he said, “and end up in all kinds of tissues.” Though it is impossible to know, he added that it is unlikely that a parasite would eat a part of the brain, as Mr. Kennedy described. Rather, Dr. White said, it survives on nutrients from the body. Unlike tapeworm larvae in the intestines, those in…

Related media - Linked media Kristen Hallenga was born on Nov. 11, 1985, in Norden, a small town in northern Germany, to a German father and an English mother, both of whom were teachers, according to The Times of London. When she was 9, she moved to Daventry in central England with her mother, Jane Hallenga; her twin sister, Maren Hallenga; and their older sister Maike Hallenga, all three of whom survive her. Her father, Reiner Hallenga, died of a heart attack when she was 20. Ms. Hallenga first felt a lump in 2009 when she was in Beijing working…

Linked media - Associated media The four adult children were in agreement. Their father, William Curry, a retired electrical engineer and business executive, was sinking deeper into dementia. They had found a memory care facility about a mile from their parents’ house in Chelmsford, Mass., where they thought Mr. Curry would do better. But their mother, Melissa, who was 83 when her family began urging her to make this change in 2016, remained determined to continue caring for her 81-year-old husband at home, despite the increasing toll on her own health. When her children raised the issue of a move,…

Linked media - Linked media La Unión Europea ha anunciado que acaba de abrir una investigación para determinar si las redes sociales Facebook e Instagram, del grupo Meta, provocan conductas adictivas en menores de edad. «No estamos convencidos de eso [Meta] esto es suficiente para (…) mitigar los riesgos de efectos negativos sobre la salud física y mental de los jóvenes europeos en sus plataformas Facebook e Instagram», informó el comisario europeo de Mercado Interno, Thierry Breton, en un comunicado. La investigación deriva de la Ley de Servicios Digitales (LSD), uno de los pilares regulatorios sobre plataformas digitales en el…

Associated media - Connected media El Ayuntamiento de Madrid quiere publicar un listado de usos turísticos legales (VUT) para que tanto ciudadanos como turistas puedan decidir dónde ubicarse, según explicó este martes el alcalde de la ciudad, José Luis Martínez-Almeida. En un acto sobre turismo en ciudades españolas y portuguesas organizado por la Sociedad Barcelonesa de Estudios Económicos y Sociales (SBEES), perteneciente al patronato catalán Foment del Treball, el regidor de la capital se mostró partidario de la regulación y no de la prohibición de este tipo de vida. Almeida defendió la reciente moratoria sobre estas medidas que decidió el…

Related media - Related media Son muchas las falsas creencias que todavía existen en torno al asma, sus causas, los tratamientos y el diagnóstico. Esto supone un gran obstáculo para las personas que padecen esta enfermedad, ya que les resulta más complicado conocer la forma adecuada de mantener bajo control los síntomas. El doctor Luis Manuel Entrenas Costa, jefe de Neumología del Hospital Quirónsalud Córdoba, insiste en que es importante prestar más atención a esta enfermedad, y escapar de «creencias equivocadas que no benefician a los pacientes». Te ayudamos a derribar los 7 falsos bulos más populares sobre esta enfermedad…

Related media - Connected media Los Ángeles Lakers acaba de confirmar con un comunicado que Darvin Ham deja de ser el entrenador. «Apreciamos enormemente los esfuerzos de Darvin en nombre de los Lakers y reconocemos los muchos logros conseguidos en las dos últimas temporadas, incluida la notable carrera del año pasado hasta las Finales de la Conferencia Oeste», ha asegurado Rob Pelinka, vicepresidente de la franquicia. «Todos queremos dar las gracias a Darvin por su dedicación y positividad. Aunque ha sido una decisión difícil de tomar, es la mejor opción tras una revisión completa de la temporada. Esta organización permanecerá…