Who May Benefit Feeding tubes are helpful for people who are unable to feed themselves as a result of an acute illness or surgery, but who otherwise have a reasonable chance to recover. They are also helpful for people who are temporarily or permanently unable to swallow but who otherwise have normal or near-normal physical function. In such instances, feeding tubes may serve as the only way to provide much-needed nutrients and/or medications....
Anderson was carted off the court after he collided with the Boston Celtics’ Gerald Wallace during a January game. He was not officially ruled out until March and an April surgery came soon after. MORE: Pelicans’ Davis on rise | Davis dunk | Deng: Heat can cope without LeBron Since then, Anderson has waited to receive clearance to play. With the season less than three months away, he finally received the good news....
She said that the tax on billionaires’ assets would bring around $200 billion to $250 billion in revenue over 10 years. The tax “has an appeal, but it doesn’t produce that much money…the bill is not written yet. We hope it will be written today and introduced tomorrow,” she said on CNN’s State of the Union. “Only then can the joint tax committee evaluate what it brings in. We anticipate $200 to $250 billion, but we need closer to $2 trillion....
During his visit to Washington earlier in the month, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador requested U.S. help in combating the disease in border regions. Pence, head of the White House’s coronavirus task force, has worked with Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard. Ebrard had made the case for a coordinated approach to the disease across the region, given the economic integration of the North American countries, including Canada. “The instruction we received from President López Obrador is to work with the vice president so that we are in sync and have early access at the same time as a region, as North America,” Ebrard said on July 10, after the talks....
MORE: The best photos from Week 1 | Scoreboard That’s Julius wearing No. 99, destroying Kent State returner Raekwon James. Keep in mind that Julius is 5-10, 258 pounds, while James is 5-9, 187. You have to appreciate the commitment and the level of certainty. No need to wrap a guy up when you hit him that hard. MORE: This ugly hit got an Iowa player ejected We will always support tackling kickers....
Huh? Blame the desperation to find quarterbacks in great part for the possibility that the Penn State All-America running back could fall well below where his talent, character and versatility warrant. How good is Barkley? Draft expert Gil Brandt says he’s the best at the position since Adrian Peterson. Other scouts and general managers have compared Barkley to LaDainian Tomlinson. Last we looked, LT is in the Hall of Fame, and Peterson sure seems headed there....
Penn State finished second in the Big Ten East with a 7-2 conference record. A win in the Cotton Bowl would secure the Nittany Lions’ third 11-win season in four years under coach James Franklin, but only their third bowl win (and second in the New Year’s Day 6). MORE: Get the latest NCAA odds & betting advice at Sports Insider Memphis, meanwhile, earned Group of 5 representation for the New Year’s bowls by going 12-1 and winning the American Athletic Conference by beating Cincinnati in consecutive weeks (winning 34-24 in the regular season and 29-24 in the AAC championship game)....
Houston’s collapse continued Tuesday with a late-inning 6-4 loss to the Mariners. Paired with a win by the Angels, the Astros now sit a half-game behind the Halos for the second wild-card spot. MORE: Internet makes fun of Dodgers’ graphic mistake | MLB postseason schedule | World Series odds The Astros, who led the West on Sept. 14, just before the Rangers overtook them, fell to 10-16 in September and will have five games (two at Seattle, three at Arizona) to regain their playoff spot....
The Polish government on Tuesday said it was prepared to transfer all of its MiG-29 fighter jets to the U.S. Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Those planes could then be turned over to Ukrainian pilots trying to fend off Russian forces. In turn, Poland asked the U.S. to replace the MiGs with U.S.-made jets possessing “corresponding operational capabilities.” But the Pentagon quickly dismissed the surprise announcement as not “tenable.”...
China claims the island as its own and has vowed to unify it by force if necessary, while Taiwan, whose occupants have no desire to be ruled by Beijing, says it would defend itself alone to preserve its hard-won democratic freedoms. Beijing’s designs on Taiwan were thrust into the international spotlight in early August when a visit to Taipei by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi triggered an unprecedented response from China....
“There was nothing that I, or anyone else, saw that indicated a collapse of this army or this government in 11 days,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday. Intelligence assessments showed a rapid collapse was possible, but estimates mostly ranged from weeks to months to even years following the departure of U.S. military forces, Milley said. The United States is now scrambling to evacuate thousands of American citizens and Afghan allies who are trapped in the country as the Taliban takes control....
“The gesture of my style is definitely my mom,” Nyong’o told Vanity Fair, describing the essence of her style. “I always thought she was very elegant, and she was always present with the way she put herself together without being pressured.” Nyong’o can be seen in a series of photos wearing GUCCI, BALENCIAGA, 1 Moncler Pierpaolo Piccioli, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton and Prada. The photographs show Nyong’o in a cornucopia of bright colors, almost as if she’s our visual love letter to a summer lost, allowing us in the brisk days of October to look back at the summer that was....
It all started on Twitter a couple of days ago. User @JoeMiller101 uploaded a post extolling the virtues of Naughty Dog’s masterful sequel The Last of Us 2. A comment followed shortly after, in which another user made a comment about how the game “DESTROYED” id Software’s ground-breaking Doom Eternal, specifically in terms of ratings and overall recognition. What ensued was a number of other argumentative posts, particularly when it came to weapon models, with some questioning why one game was being compared to the other....
Researchers compared 526,808 people with atopic eczema, the most common form of the condition, and 2,569,030 without. They looked at whether the participants have suffered hip, pelvic, spinal or wrist fractures. The worse a person’s eczema was, the greater their chances of having a fracture, the team found. The likelihood of having a fracture was 13 percent greater in people with atopic eczema compared to people without, from the baseline....
Because of this, psychiatrist Rebecca Rossom, MD, MS, and colleagues at the HealthPartners Institute in Minnesota, wondered if these patients’ heart disease risk could be predicted earlier than the standard screening age of 40. If it could, it meant that healthcare providers and patients could take steps to prevent cardiovascular disease sooner. After reviewing medical records of almost 600,000 adults in the United States, they found that those who had schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or schizoaffective disorder showed an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease as soon as young adulthood—more than a decade before the standard screening age could detect it....
MORE: Stars who retired before 30 The free agent told the Bills, who were hoping to re-sign him, that he will not be returning for the 2016 season, ESPN reported. Injuries plagued Harvin throughout his seven years in the NFL. He suffered from ongoing hip problems, which caused him to miss most of the 2013 season. Drafted by the Vikings in 2009 out of Florida, Harvin saw his productivity wane after he was placed on injured reserve in 2012 with a bad ankle....
As a public-health scientist with a daughter, Christine, heading to college this fall, I have professional and personal concerns about teen binge drinking. It is imperative that we explore why so many young people abuse alcohol. From my own study of the effects of alcohol restrictions and my observations of Christine and her friends’ predicament about drinking, I believe that today’s laws are unrealistic. Prohibiting the sale of liquor to responsible young adults creates an atmosphere where binge drinking and alcohol abuse have become a problem....
A recent study, presented at the experimental biology conference EB 2022, found that people who take testosterone and/or gender-affirming hormones and usually do not menstruate experienced menstrual side effects from their COVID-19 vaccination. These side effects include breakthrough bleeding, chest or breast soreness, cramping, and bloating. Previous studies that looked into the menstrual side effects of vaccination largely focused on cisgender women, whose gender identity matches the gender they were assigned at birth....
#1 Don’t Play Blame Game “Over here people like a scrap, like a battle. I will just keep playing the way I do. I will try and entertain the fans, create assists, score goals and concentrate on that regardless. Hazard told Evening Standard, then he added ‘I can still take the hits, it’s not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.”...
Persona 4 Golden’s launch on PC is a rousing success according to Atlus. Announced via the official Atlus West Twitter account, Persona 4 Golden has broken 500,000 players on Steam. RELATED: Persona 4 Golden Mod Restores Cut Yosuke Romance As an added bonus to celebrate the now former Vita exclusive, series character designer Shigenori Soejima created a sketch with a message for all the PC players. In a followup tweet, Atlus notes that yesterday, July 10, marked the anniversary of Persona 4’s Japanese launch on the PlayStation 2 in 2008....
