Laura Elizabeth Kelley and Maliva Julius Mahiga were married June 8 at St. Peter’s Parish in Kansas City, Mo. The Rev. Matthew Rotert, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony. The bride, 33, is a Blavatnik Fellow at Harvard, where she is commercializing technology for diagnosis of cancer. She graduated from Rice University, and received…
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Michele Nhung Tran and Timothy Michael Stevens were married June 8 at Pier A Harbor House, an events space in Manhattan. Dr. Khoa Tran, the bride’s brother who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. Ms. Tran, 32, is an assistant principal of special education at the James Madison High School in Brooklyn.…
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Isabel Forbes Barber and Andrew Scott Tinkham were married June 8 at the Jekyll Island Club in Jekyll Island, Ga. The Rev. Ashton K. Williston, an Episcopal priest, officiated. Mrs. Tinkham, 40, is the director for program management at Texas Central, a company in Dallas that is developing a high-speed passenger-rail system to connect North…
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Cheng-Fang Yu and Benjamin Humphrey Egnal were married June 8 at the Windsor Arms Hotel in Toronto. Lainie Magidsohn, a nondenominational minister, officiated. The couple met at the Parsons School of Design, from which each graduated. Ms. Yu, 30, is an account executive in the Toronto office of the Publicis Groupe, the advertising and public…
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Tegan Marie Argo and Benjamin Dylan Litwak were married June 8 at the St. Julien Hotel and Spa in Boulder, Colo. The Rev. Keith Lewis, a Disciples of Christ minister, officiated. The couple met at the University of Colorado, from which both graduated. The bride, 28, is a hardware-test engineer in Mountain View, Calif., at…
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A treatment affecting the immune system effectively slowed the progression to clinical type 1 diabetes in high risk individuals, according to findings from National Institutes of Health-funded research. The study is the first to show that clinical type 1 diabetes can be delayed by two or more years among people who are at high risk.…
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For patients with diabetes, bringing down and maintaining lower blood glucose levels is important to minimize the risk of long-term complications such as nerve damage, kidney damage, an increased risk of heart disease, eye problems, and more. Through a randomized, multicenter clinical trial sponsored by Novo Nordisk, investigators studied blood glucose results for patients assigned…
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IMAGE: Dr. Steven Kahn, study chair for the Restoring Insulin Secretion (RISE) Consortium, talks with RISE participant Faamafi Faamafi Jr. about his experience in the adult medication trial. Kahn is an… view more A set of clinical trials examining youth and adults with type 2 diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance has found that disease progression in…
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Two years ago, Robbie Tripp Instagrammed his wife. He posted a photograph of the pair embracing in swimwear in Miami and wrote, “I love this woman and her curvy body.” Then he detailed his journey toward feminism and body positivity, and his transformation into a man who can proudly post online: “This gorgeous girl I…
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The answer is yes, you can, and it’s not as good a situation as you might be thinking. You have got someone you’re head over heels in life with, and then the lightning strikes, and there is a newcomer who changes everything in your life. They virtually spring out on you – a new coworker,…
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