CHILD AND FAMILY CARE

A Texas toddler did exactly what her family had taught her, and it helped save her mother’s life. Noemi “Emi” Vatavuk, 3, was the only other person home when her mother, Aidan Wilkie, suffered a grand mal seizure at their home in Rusk, Texas. Emi FaceTimed her grandparents, who were nearly 700 miles away in […]
GEORGIA
CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE

One step across his yard, and Jonno Stubbs was staring up at a shrinking circle of light from the bottom of a well. The JCB fork-lift truck driver survived a 30 foot, 9 metre, fall into the well at his property in Cheadle, Staffordshire, in February. Months later, after trying to track him down, he […]
TALENT ACQUISITION AND RECRUITING

A new lifeboat has taken over at Appledore, England, and one crew member is marking another first at the Devon station. Appledore Lifeboat Station now has a Shannon class lifeboat, Ruth and David Arthur, as its official all-weather vessel, replacing its Tamar class lifeboat. The volunteer crew has undergone intense training to adapt to the […]
CHILD AND FAMILY CARE

A three-year-old boy with an aggressive liver cancer has gone 12 months without disease after an experimental CAR T cell treatment, according to a case report published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers said the boy had hepatoblastoma, a malignant liver cancer, that had resisted chemotherapy and returned quickly after surgery. When he […]
HOUSTONUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONBAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

A team that barely had time to practice still went unbeaten and won a national title. Now that run is heading to television in We Belong Here: The Story of Team Dream. The OWN Spotlight documentary tells the story of 12 Black women who made volleyball history at the 2018 USA Volleyball Open National Championship. […]