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David Paton, an idealist and innovative ophthalmologist who started in Project Orbis, converting a United Airlines jet to a flying hospital that brought surgeons to developing countries to operate on patients and educate local doctors, died on April 3 at his house in Reno, Nev. It was 94.His death was confirmed by his son, Townley.Son of an important eye surgeon in New York whose patients included Iran's Shah and the lender J. Pierpont Morgan's Horse, dr. Paton (pronounced Pay-Ton tonne) was teaching the Johns Hopkins University Wilmer Eye Institute in the early 70s when discouraged by increasing cases increasing cases preventable in places."Other eye doctors were needed," he wrote in his memories book, "Second Sight: views from A Eye Doctor's Odyssey" (2011), "but equally impo...

Before thousands of people lined up for a momentary look of the body of Pope Francis and the possibility of paying tribute, an elderly nun got up in front of the pontiff's coffin, greeting a tears to his longtime friend.A video captured the last tender moments Geneviève Jeannos shared with the man with whom he was known to be a confidant. Wearing a modest blue veil on her silver hair, her sister Geneviève remained alone and cried, rubbing her face with her hand.Her sister Geneviève is a member of a Catholic religious community called little sisters of Jesus, and said she became friendship with the pontiff while he was the bishop of Buenos Aires.In a video published by his order, his sister Geneviève said he reproached the church in a letter for not having sent the senior clergy to the ...

Listen and follow "Hard Fork"Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | IheartradioThis week, with great developments in two antitrust cases against Google, we discuss how the company could be forced to change its business. So we are reached by the journalist Mark Yarm to discuss his recent visit to an underwater house for his article on techno-ucho-autopic who want to colonize the ocean. And finally, it's time for the instrument! We will talk to you about our latest experiments with O3 of Chatgpt, the most recent case of Casey's Journal and Kevin's continuous battle to get to Inbox Zero.Tickets for Hard Fork Live are on sale! See June 24 in Sfjazz.Guest:Mark Yarm, executive publisher of Pcmag and author of "Everybody Loves Our Town: Oral History of Grunge".Additional reading:Credits...

A mortal explosion on Sunday close to a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the capital of Yemen was caused by a Houthi missile, not by an American air attack, said a spokesman for the United States Central Command on Thursday.The Ministry of Health of the Government led by Houthi declared at the beginning of this week that an American air attack had affected a densely populated neighborhood of Sana, the Yemeni capital, killing 12 people and injuring other 30. The explosion hit an area adjacent to the old city of Sana, a UNESCO World Heritage full of ancient towers.Dave Eastburn, a spokesperson for the Central Command of the United States, who supervises the operations in the Middle East, declared in a declaration that while the damage and the victims described by local health officials are more...

After a protest from scientists and health experts, federal health officials declared that they would restore funding to the women's health initiative, one of the greatest and long studies on the health of women ever conducted.The results of the Whi and its controlled randomized studies have changed medical practices and contributed to modeling clinical guidelines, preventing hundreds of thousands of cases of cardiovascular diseases and breast cancer."These studies represent critical contributions to our best understanding of women's health," said Emily G. Hilliard, spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services."Now we are working to completely restore funding to these essential research efforts," he added. The National Institutes of Health "remains deeply committed to ...

Dea Kulumbegashvili could be the most famous director who emerges in the last decade from Georgia, a nation of about 3.6 million people who were once part of the Soviet Union. His debut, "Beginning", was the presentation of his country for the best international film Oscar in 2021 and his last "April", which opens in the US theaters on Friday, won the Prize for the Special Jury at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.Yet Kulumbegashvili, who lives in Berlin, is not particularly welcomed at home."April", who follows an obstetrician who performs abortions illegally, has not been undergone screening in Georgia. "It has no distribution potential because nobody wants to face something that would cause a problem with the authorities," said Kulumbegashvili in a video interview. Although abortion is lega...

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Chinese producers are flooding Tiktok and other social media apps with appeals directed to American buyers, urging people to buy luxury items directly from their factories. And among the threats of high rates to Chinese exports, the Americans seem to be all.The tone in the videos is that people can buy leggings and bags exactly like those of brands such as Lululemon, Hermes and Birkenstock, but for a fraction of the price. They often argue falsely that the products are made in the same factories that produce objects for those brands.The American influencers embraced videos, promoting the factories and guiding the downloads of apps for Chinese shopping such as Dhgate and Taobao as a way for buyers to save money if the price of goods has set in motion under the tariffs of President Trump on ...

Jordan accused the Muslim brothers of planning attacks in the country and introduced a general ban on the group on Wednesday, in a move that could close the largest opposition party of the nation, the Islamic action front, the group's political arm in Jordan.The front of the Islamic action won a support point in Parliament last year after making a campaign against the Israeli invasion of Gaza.Here more on Muslim brotherhood and on its reach through the Middle East.What is Muslim brotherhood?Muslim brotherhood is a Sunni Islamist movement founded in 1928 by Hassan Al-Banna, a school teacher in Egypt, who claimed that a religious renewal would help the Muslim world to reject colonialism and western influence.Sometimes it was contradictory for the group's attention and avoided definin...

Few domestic industries have been devastated by the flood of low -cost Chinese imports such as face masks producers, exam gloves and other US medical tools that protect health workers from infectious pathogens.The disappearance of the industry had calamitous consequences during the Covidic Pandemic, when Beijing stopped the exports and workers of the American hospital they found themselves at the mercy of a deadly air virus that quickly filled the emergency room and the emergency golds of the nation.But while President Trump revealed his tariff regime at the beginning of this month and Beijing reacted with a tax of 84 % on American imports, the few remaining companies that make protective equipment in the United States seemed mostly uncomfortable."I was quite crazy," said Lloyd Armanbrust,...