In the 20 years since she set up her chain of coffee shops, the business climate has never felt as difficult as it does now, according to Helena Hudson, whose Real Eating Company has 10 outlets in market towns and cathedral cities across south-east England. Even in prosperous areas, “people are still very much watching […]
The patient: A 20-year-old woman in the United Kingdom The symptoms: The patient had unprotected vaginal sex with her habitual male partner, and shortly afterward, her vulva and vagina began itching and swelling. She developed angioedema — swelling of the tissues below the surface of the skin — and hives appeared across her body. She […]
The patient: A 67-year-old woman in the U.K. The symptoms: The woman was scheduled for routine cataract surgery on her right eye. Although her vision in her right eye was poorer than that of her left, historically, she had had “no previous ocular complaints.” Before the procedure, she told doctors she was feeling some minor […]
The drag-out fight over government spending has highlighted how House Republicans — for all the ideological divisions between their clashing in-house factions — are governed by the underlying effort to appease an audience of one: President-elect Trump. Trump’s 11th-hour decision to jump into the funding fight — with a big push from billionaire Elon Musk…
As Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy make sweeping promises to cut $2 trillion dollars of federal spending, senior House Republicans have raised concerns with GOP leadership that efforts to cut wasteful federal spending will put the party on a collision course. Senior House Republicans, including some who serve on the committee responsible for appropriating money, […]
The patient: A 56-year-old woman in Maryland The symptoms: The woman was hospitalized after experiencing fever, cough and chest pain for about two days. What happened next: Scans of the patient’s chest revealed signs of pneumonia, and lab results suggested she had a higher-than-normal number of immune cells in her blood. Suspecting an infection, doctors […]
