Northwestern Medicine study finds lung transplant dramatically improves survival for patients with terminal lung cancer
JAMA study challenges a long-held transplant rule that patients with stage IV lung cancer shouldn’t receive lung transplants
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Northwestern's transplant programNorthwestern performs rare quadruple-organ transplant on woman who previously had lung transplant
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/14/northwestern-organ-lung-transplant/
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Guess I'm doomedI don't go to any of these...
Going to museums, movies, and theater may help your body stay younger
Regular trips to museums, theaters, and cinemas may help your body stay biologically younger, according to a new study.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260714225526.htm
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What a great ideaDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced a new effort to annually screen service members’ testosterone levels and offer testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), framing it as a way to keep troops on the “leading edge of lethality.”
The screening, added as part of war fighters’ periodic health assessment, will affect troops age 30 and older, though those under 30 can voluntarily choose to get the test, Hegseth said in a video message posted to X.
“While we invest heavily in our weapon systems, platforms and gear, our most decisive tactical advantage will always be the individual warfighter,” Hegseth said. “We have a sacred duty to maintain that advantage, which is why we must constantly look for new ways to optimize your performance, your resilience and your long-term health.”
The Pentagon chief authorized the new screening program to ensure troops “have the right testosterone levels to operate at [their] absolute best because it’s well-established science that as we age, testosterone levels often naturally drop,” he said.
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Locking your mobile number - PSAWe have our mobile phone service through Xfinity; they are an MVNO on the Verizon network. Got an email about locking our phone numbers so that a scammer can't port the number to another phone. I've heard about this happening to people, where one day their phone doesn't work and it's because someone has ported it elsewhere and has access to their phone.
This is Xfinity-specific, but I'm guessing that other mobile phone services also do it:
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McConnell@Bernard Oh, I totally agree with you on the McConnell situation, the radio silence for a month . We're definitely not getting the whole story.
As for the photo, I could see it being a real photo of him, not something that's doctored. I'll take it as proof of life, but not proof of competence. The guy in the photo could just be an empty shell. What I want to see is him talking to people in person.
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McConnell@Rontuner I've also seen those stories and have read several fact checking site that rebut them, including this one from Politifact:
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McConnellBut why and how do these people continue to be elected?
Agree with @jon-nyc regarding the "why elected" answer. But I think the question you are asking is why these folks percolate to the top and become their party's nominee.
Is it $$$?
I think that's the answer. Throw money and other resources at a candidate's campaign, and you can help them get elected to office. Then that makes them beholden to the financial backers and do whatever the backer wants done. Lather, rinse, repeat.
We need campaign finance reform but I'm not holding my breath that it will happen.
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McConnellLike any good proof-of-life photo, it featured that day’s newspaper. After a nearly month-long disappearance, when it was clear that he had been rushed to the hospital but not clear why or in what condition, Mitch McConnell broke his silence, as they say in the tabloids, by releasing a photograph of himself sitting upright in a hospital bed. He wore a pink button-up shirt, and his vacant, lipless mouth seemed to form something meant to resemble a smile. Beside him was his wife, the comparatively pert former Trump transportation secretary Elaine Chao, her coiffed hair as stiff as the couple’s determination. In a statement, McConnell said that he had been hospitalized after a fall, and was being treated for pneumonia.
The picture was meant to put an end to the rampant speculation over whether the senator, aged 84, was dead or not. You would think this would be a simple enough question to answer. If the man himself wasn’t available to clear up the matter, couldn’t someone have held two fingers to the inside of his wrist to check for a pulse, or propped a hand mirror under his nose to see if it fogged? No such luck, apparently. The Kentucky senator was missing for weeks, with no word, his office only releasing vague and repetitive acknowledgments that he had been hospitalized. Public emergency services records indicate that paramedics were called to his Washington address on 14 June, where they administered CPR on an unconscious person who was allegedly suffering a cardiac arrest – one whose identity has been withheld. McConnell had been in a Washington DC area hospital ever since.
It's more than just McConnell:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/15/mitch-mcconnell-hospital-photo-silence
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Happy Bastille Day!A coffee at a French cafe or dinner at a French bistro would be wonderful. Absent those, here are two versions of one of my favorite French songs to listen to at home while sipping a latte...
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The so-called deal with IranHe really should stop trying to save face when he blunders into something. He just ends up sounding stupid.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a reversal of plans to charge a 20% toll on cargo going through the Strait of Hormuz, saying that Middle Eastern countries will instead make investment and trade deals with the U.S.
“Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States,” Trump said on social media.
The president said the investments “will be MASSIVE,” though it’s unclear if these would be new commitments relative to what Trump announced after a visit last year to the Middle East.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-hormuz-strait-war-july-14-2026-abd060c55feea216625689e57d8f76be
