As fall is to leaf-peeping, spring is to waterfall-watching, a seasonal pursuit now underway in the northern and higher regions of the United States. Waterfalls can range from thunderous plunges to delicate mossy trickles. They can be backcountry pop-ups or the centerpieces of parks, like Great Falls Park in McLean, Va., and Silver Falls State…
Gabrielle Alyse Neimand caught a glimpse of a tiger the length of Micah Lennon McEachen’s forearm as they shared a tray full of cupcakes at their friend’s cupcake tasting in Los Angeles on Feb. 13, 2015. He likes to think of it as Friday the 13th, while she likes to say the day before Valentine’s…
When Christopher Jones met Marissa Follo Perry at a bus stop, his infatuation with her was immediate. It was a big day for them both: the first day of kindergarten. Mr. Jones and Ms. Follo Perry, both now 35, were each raised in Italian-American families in Wolcott, Conn. From that first meeting in 1990, when…
Dara Silverman knew Erik Leibovitz for all of 15 minutes after connecting on J-Swipe in July 2015, when he asked a question that caught her off guard. “Can you do me a favor?” said Mr. Leibovitz, 30, the vice president for global partnerships and business development at Monumental Sports & Entertainment in Washington. Ms. Silverman,…
Julie Peak and Dr. Samuel Haywood have never lived in the same city. Ms. Peak, a principal of the consulting firm SullivanCotter, currently works and lives in St. Louis with her two young sons from a previous marriage, John and Oliver. Dr. Haywood, a urologic oncologist at Cleveland Clinic, lives and works in Cleveland. The…
New Brunswick, N.J., is fewer than 50 miles from New York City, but for Dr. Marianne Jacob and Andrew Shenoy, who were married April 17 at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Lower Manhattan, even that relatively small geographical gap was sometimes difficult to bear. From 2016 to 2019, the couple dated while…
“Nah,” I said. “It’s just a dumb frying pan.” By then, he knew me well enough not to shrug it off. “Why do I feel like there’s a story here?” I hadn’t told anyone the embarrassing truth of the pans, but with him, the story poured out. “Over a decade ago,” I said, “my mother…
Largest study so far of more than 17 million adults in England confirms that minority ethnic groups had a higher risk of testing positive, hospitalisation, admission to intensive care units (ICU), and death from COVID-19 compared with white groups, even after accounting for other factors known to increase risk like deprivation, occupation, household size and…
HOUSTON ? A Phase II trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that BK virus (BKV)-specific T cells from healthy donors were safe and effective as an off-the-shelf therapy for BKV-associated hemorrhagic cystitis (BKV-HC), a painful complication common after allogeneic stem cell transplants for patients with leukemia or…
WASHINGTON, D.C., (April 30, 2021) – New study results validate the effectiveness of the Medtronic Harmony™ transcatheter pulmonary valve (TPV) system for patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) and severe pulmonary regurgitation (PR). The Harmony TPV is designed to be a less invasive treatment option for patients with irregularity in their right ventricular outflow tract…