Chelsea took control of their UEFA Conference League semi-final with a 4-1 win over Djurgarden in Stockholm. On a near-perfect night for Enzo Maresca’s side – which also included Premier League top-five rivals Nottingham Forest losing at home to Brentford – Chelsea made a huge step towards booking their place in the May 28 final […]
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Tottenham took charge of their Europa League semi-final against Bodo/Glimt, though a late goal for the visitors took some of the gloss off a 3-1 first-leg victory. Ange Postecoglou’s side looked to be cruising to a routine win after goals from Brennan Johnson, James Maddison and Dominic Solanke fired the hosts into a comfortable lead
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Nottingham Forest’s Champions League hopes took a major blow as Brentford consigned them to a 2-0 loss at the City Ground – to boost their own European aspirations. A beautiful sunny day in Nottingham turned into stormy rain and it summed up Forest’s current situation. Nuno Espirito Santo’s side came into the game looking to
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In an effort to improve American diets, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Thursday released a new definition of what it means for a food to qualify as “healthy.” Products like fruit-flavored yogurt, fortified white bread and sweetened energy bars will no longer be allowed to label themselves as healthy if they exceed certain limits
Groundbreaking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have understandably generated a lot of excitement, bringing hope to the hundreds of millions of people grappling with obesity. When combined with a healthier diet and exercise, these drugs, which suppress appetite, deliver an average 10% reduction in body weight that can be sustained for years. With more
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This summer an old high school friend of mine decided to quit drinking entirely. She didn’t want to, but she felt she had no choice. “All of a sudden my body decided that alcohol is poison,” she told me recently over a bitter grapefruit mocktail at an Italian restaurant. “I can have as little as
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A longtime internist who founded a chain of Southern California clinics has surrendered his medical license after an accusation from the state medical board that he sexually assaulted three patients, two of whom worked for his clinics. Dr. Mohammad Rasekhi signed an agreement to give up his medical license last month, weeks after the Medical
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Wednesday as the H5N1 bird flu virus moved from the Central Valley to Southern California dairy herds, while federal officials confirmed the first U.S. case of severe illness in a hospitalized Louisiana patient — a concerning development as the virus continues to spread throughout the nation via
Three men sought help at clinics or emergency rooms in Los Angeles County over a three-month period this year, each reporting severe diarrhea and a recent history of sexual contact with other men. Stool cultures revealed that all three were infected with Shigella sonnei, a strain of Shigella bacteria that is resistant to five of
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Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. Suddenly, her arms and legs became weak, and by the time she got to a hospital in Indianapolis, she was totally paralyzed and in respiratory failure. Lane spent the next several months in an iron lung. “I don’t really remember
