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An 8-year-old northern Minnesota boy is one of the first in the country to receive a specific type of gene therapy treatment.Colton Belluzzo was diagnosed with a form of muscular dystrophy when he was a baby.The disease has weakened his muscles over time.But he and his family now have good reason to be optimistic. “He’s an outgoing little boy. Loves to play outside,” said Morgan Belluzzo, Colton’s mom. Colton Belluzzo also loves to fish, ride horses and even give his own weather reports on camera. Colton Belluzzo WCCO But when he was 7 months old, Colton Belluzzo was diagnosed with Duchenne…
PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has run into a jumble of Medicaid rules that effectively prevent many people with disabilities from holding full-time jobs. “Which is it? Do you want us to work or not?” he said. Mecham, 31, relies on the public insurance program to pay for services that help him live on his own despite a disability caused by muscular dystrophy. He uses a wheelchair to get around and a portable ventilator to breathe. A paid assistant stays with Mecham at night. Then a…
West Virginia has outlawed foods that contain some artificial dyes or other additives, in one of the most comprehensive statewide bans of its kind. The move cites potentially harmful health effects and comes amid a broader push from scientists and government leaders to clamp down on synthetics in the nation’s food supply.On Monday, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey signed into law a bill that was passed earlier by legislators to eliminate seven artificial dyes — Red Dye No. 3, Red Dye No. 40, Yellow Dye No. 5, Yellow Dye No. 6, Blue Dye No. 1, Blue Dye No. 2 and Green Dye…
Residency programs are where medical students get post-graduate hands-on experience. It’s a very competitive process.”We are officially excited to welcome you to Match Day 2025,” said Dr. DaCarla Albright, associate dean for Student Affairs and Wellness at Perelman School of Medicine.Graduating medical students at the University of Pennsylvania found out where they’ll go for residency programs on Friday.”My experience here has been amazing,” said Sydney Chambule, a Penn medical student.Chambule had a full scholarship, coming to Penn from Mozambique where he said the medical system is lacking. “I hope to be able to become a great surgeon and to find…
Officials at agencies throughout the Department of Health and Human Services say they are bracing for steep layoffs, as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his aides are nearing their final decisions on a sweeping restructuring of the department.Decisions by Kennedy and his team on the changes to the department’s makeup and organization are expected within a week or two, multiple senior health officials have been told. One official said aides have begun drafting a reorganization announcement.The department did not respond to a request for comment. In addition to the formal head of the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency team,…
Paul Safarik, 32, of Lincoln, Nebraska, has worked in the food industry since he was 21, delivering for quick service restaurants like Raising Cane’s and stocking groceries at stores like Trader Joe’s. With his earnings, Safarik, who has Down syndrome, recently bought a treadmill to stay active when the weather’s bad and helped cover the cost of braces for his teeth.That’s unusual, financially speaking, and it’s thanks in part to a little-known savings account called an ABLE account, which lets people people with disabilities save money beyond the $2,000 asset limit that’s linked to benefits like Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid. Without the…
Hugues Oyarzabal, one of Europe’s most accomplished surfers and among the first to record spectacular feats from inside the curl of a wave using digital cameras, died on Feb. 21 at his home in Biarritz, France. He was 39.His parents, Charles and Lucette Oyarzabal, said he had taken his own life. Friends told The New York Times that Oyarzabal had lived with bipolar disorder from childhood.“His physical and psychological suffering took its toll,” his parents told The Times through a translator. “He has chosen to leave us, to rediscover the peace and serenity he has been unable to find over…
Last spring, when my wife and I were preparing to welcome our first child, we started a list of baby gear — a rite of passage for parents. The difference with our list, or so I thought, was that it would contain only the best stuff because it was vetted by me, a tech columnist with 20 years of experience testing products.After our baby arrived in the summer, I learned I was wrong.It turns out there is no best baby gear, because what worked for other parents often didn’t work for us. Even though I had picked a top-rated stroller,…
From “Eight Men Out” to “Field of Dreams,” baseball movies are usually enraptured by the past. Steeped in traditions, these films celebrate homespun heroes whose anything-is-possible journeys toward a championship elevate our spirits. But two baseball movies from the last 20 years had something else on their minds that would alter how the sport was looked at onscreen. Bennett Miller’s “Moneyball” (2011), based on a true story, and Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s “Sugar” (2008), aren’t about tenacious winners or mythic achievements. Instead, they’re fascinated by failure and community.That notable shift defies a subgenre built on uplift. A baseball movie…
Three cameras rested on tripods and black cords snaked in knots across the floor as Dansby Swanson, a star shortstop for the Chicago Cubs, signed off on his nearly hourlong podcast and stood up to thank his guest. They had busy schedules ahead, but not in the form of batting practice or weight training.“What do you have going the rest of the day?” Swanson asked. “Whatever they tell me to do,” his interview subject, the Athletics outfielder Brent Rooker, said with a laugh.As the men departed the makeshift, bare-bones recording studio inside a sleek, sprawling mansion atop a hill in…