For a patient’s knee replacement, Medicare will pay a hospital $17,000. The same hospital can get more than twice as much, or about $37,000, for the same surgery on a patient with private insurance. Or take another example: One hospital would get about $4,200 from Medicare for removing someone’s gallbladder. The same hospital would get…
Teresa Mendoza of “La Reina del Sur” is not an average telenovela character. She drinks, swears and smokes weed. She sleeps with multiple men and fights back when they try to dominate her. And throughout the course of the show’s wildly successful first season, which aired on the Spanish-language network Telemundo in 2011, Teresa goes…
Increasing muscle strength is good, but increasing muscle power may be even better for enjoying a longer life, according to a recent study. Increased muscle power can improve longevity, new research suggests. Professor Claudio Gil Araújo, who is the director of research and education at Exercise Medicine Clinic — CLINIMEX in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,…
Researchers used a powerful MRI scanner to monitor people with multiple sclerosis and found a link between the total volume of cortical lesions and neurological disability. Researchers were able to detect previously unidentified MS lesions in the brain using a powerful MRI scanner. Their study reveals that the development of lesions in the brain’s cortical…
Jungjoo Park and Jarrett Chase DePasquale were married April 20 at the Fox Hollow, a hotel in Woodbury, N.Y. Katherine Jeddah Vailakis, an interfaith minister ordained by the New Seminary, officiated. The bride, 29, is a manager at Burning in Water, an art gallery in Manhattan. She is a daughter of Mija Park and Chong-Gwon…
Laura Ann Parker and Brandon Michael Holtzclaw were married April 20 at the Stave Room at American Spirit Works, an events space in Atlanta. Mrs. Holtzclaw, 35, is a senior director of business transformation in the Atlanta office of Apttus, a software company based in San Mateo, Calif. She graduated from the Georgia Institute of…
Matthew Kazuaki Asada and Bilal Ahsan Qureshi were married April 17 at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington. The Rev. Roger Gench, a Presbyterian minister, performed a ceremony with Christian and Muslim traditions, with the Rev. Alice Tewell, also a Presbyterian minister, taking part. On April 20, the couple exchanged rings in another…
Christina Marie Ziccarelli and Brian Gerald Rideout were married April 20. Amy Szerlong, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated at the Metropolitan Building in Long Island City, Queens. Ms. Ziccarelli, 31, is the director of education at Girls Who Code, an organization in Manhattan that offers…
Dana Mattioli and Whitman Cornell Walker were married April 20 at Middleton Place, an events space in Charleston, S.C. R. Kirk Walker Jr., the groom’s father who became a Universal Life Minister for the occasion, officiated. The bride, 34, is a business reporter in Manhattan mainly covering Amazon for The Wall Street Journal. She graduated…
Katelyn Autumn Yannie and Alex Robert Lichorat were married April 15. Laura E. Beachy, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated at Merriman’s, a restaurant in Kapalua, Hawaii, on the island of Maui. Mrs. Lichorat, 28, is a regional media relations manager in Manhattan for Macy’s. She…