Six years ago, Helena Dea Bala sat at a Washington, DC, Starbucks, preparing to meet a complete stranger and hear her deepest, darkest secret. Bala, a higher-education lobbyist, seemed to have a fulfilling life. She and her family had come to American from Albania when she was a girl, and she grew up “dirt poor.”… Read More »
As a civil rights activist, feminist and attorney, Pauli Murray influenced Martin Luther King, Eleanor Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And with a single word in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, she bent the arc of the moral universe. Pauli Murray was in yet another fight of her life. In 1963, Congress was bitterly… Read More »
NuttyfoodiefitnessYouTube Following the widespread closure of gyms due to the pandemic, YouTuber Stephanie Joshi, aka Nuttyfoodiefitness, didn’t do what a lot of other fitness influencers were doing and immediately pivot to home workouts. She explains that her motivation for training came from the enjoyment she got from going to the gym; lifting weights in her… Read More »
Thirty four-year-old Audrey Schoeman was caught in a snowstorm while hiking in the Pyrenees mountain range in Spain on November 3, and her husband Rohan called the emergency services when she passed out, according to a statement from Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona. “I thought she was dead,” Rohan said in an interview with local… Read More »
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians. A 38-year-old woman is evaluated during a follow-up visit for primary membranous glomerulopathy. Diagnosis was made by kidney biopsy 4 months ago, and she was found to be positive for anti–phospholipase A2 receptor (PLA2R) antibodies. Medications are furosemide, losartan, and simvastatin.… Read More »