Beth Uffner, an avid tennis player, developed an aching pain first in her legs, then in her shoulders that got progressively worse until she lacked the strength to get out of a chair unaided, let alone play tennis. Faith Sullivan, a novelist, developed a headache so devastating that she could hardly read and had to…
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PENNINGTON GAP, Va. — Years before there was an opioid epidemic in America, Sister Beth Davies knew it was coming. In the late 1990s, patient after patient addicted to a new prescription painkiller called OxyContin began walking into the substance abuse clinic she ran in this worn Appalachian town. A local physician, Dr. Art Van…
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Video CreditCredit“The Weekly”/The New York Times/FX/Hulu Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. The parents, grandparents, husbands and wives came forward one by one to testify. In a federal courtroom in western Virginia, they told a judge about children lost to deadly…
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Good morning. This is my last newsletter for a while. I’m heading off the grid with my family to read and fish and gather berries and cook over wood fires, and I won’t write a word beyond the lists I keep of birds and trees and gear I need from town. You’ll hear from Julia…
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PARIS — The police in France are hunting for a customer accused of fatally shooting a waiter at a restaurant near Paris because, witnesses said, he was upset over the wait for his sandwich. The killing took place on Friday around 9:15 p.m. at a pizza and sandwich restaurant named Le Mistral in Noisy-Le-Grand, east…
DetailsA novel use of intense light therapy may help decrease the tissue damage experienced during heart attacks, reveals new research in mice. New research introduces a potential novel therapy for heart attacks. The study, out of the University of Colorado and appearing in the journal Cell Reports, shows that exposing lab mice to intense light…
DetailsExtreme daytime sleepiness is often a top symptom of Alzheimer’s disease but what, exactly, causes it? New research finally brings us an answer. A specific type of protein may cause daytime sleepiness in people with Alzheimer’s, according to a recent study. Many people with Alzheimer’s disease have a tendency to sleep a lot during the…
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Adora Izukananne Obianuju Mora and Adeyemi Olayiwola Adediran were married Aug. 17 at the Jeffrey Park and Mansion in Bexley, Ohio. The Rev. Lumumba Seegars, a minister at the Pan-African Orthodox Christian Church, officiated. On Aug. 16, the couple took part in a traditional Igbo and Yoruba wedding ceremony at the bride’s home in Columbus,…
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Noelle Marissa Bucellato and Matt Kozar are to be married Aug. 18 in Somers, N.Y. The Rev. Rufus M. Kenny is to perform the ceremony at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, where he is a parochial vicar. The bride, 30, will take her husband’s name. She is an assistant vice president in the market integrity…
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Mark Anthony Lowe and Stephen Michael Noonan were married Aug. 16 at the Harvard Club of New York City. The Rev. Susan R. Ironside, a rector at the Grace Episcopal Church in Madison, N.J., officiated. Mr. Lowe (left), 58, is a social studies and writing teacher at the Ohrenberger School in West Roxbury, Mass. He…
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