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Congratulations are in order! Michael Angarano and Maya Erskine are parents. Celebrity Pregnancy Announcements of 2020: See Which Stars Are Expecting Erskine gave birth to their son, Leon Frederick, shortly after conducting an interview with Vogue, which was published on Friday, May 7. The This Is Us star, 32, announced in November that the actress, 33, was pregnant with their […]
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It’s not unusual to see celebrities start projects or initiatives that initially get lots of attention but ultimately fall apart (sorry not sorry, Blake Lively and ‘Preserve’) or fade from memory. This hasn’t been the case for supermodel Karlie Kloss, who turned her coding side hustle into a major opportunity for girls all over the country through the program Kode With Klossy. Kloss, a former Victoria’s […]
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The US will begin screening passengers Friday arriving from a Chinese city at the heart of a mysterious SARS-linked virus, officials said, after an outbreak that has stricken dozens claimed a second life. Three confirmed cases meanwhile have now been reported outside China—two in Thailand and one in Japan—even as health authorities around the world sought to assure the public […]
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Who says that boys can’t be princesses? Probably the same people that say that girls can’t be superheroes. Or, you know, the star of Star Wars. Kitty Wolf, a Chicago-based photographer, isn’t one of those people. Wolf was the head of a princess-party company when it occurred to her that many young boys wanted to take part in “the magic, […]
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It’s a new year and many people are in the mood for making a fresh start. And that often means giving something up (cigarettes, alcohol, junk food). Unfortunately, the odds of sticking with new year resolutions are not good. Come February, 80 percent of people will have given up giving up. So what can we learn from the 20 percent […]
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And just like that, another year is almost over. Another year of the joys and calamities of parenthood, whatever form that takes for you. We all have our own parenting highs — those significant, heartwarming or life-affirming moments that remind us what it’s all about and make the tough times worthwhile. Whether it’s finally getting the diagnosis for your child that […]
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Survival rates for patients with breast cancer have improved significantly in the last four decades, and many patients will eventually die from non-cancer-related causes. Researchers recently conducted the largest population-based long-term retrospective analysis of non-cancer causes of death among patients with breast cancer. The findings are published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. Of […]
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Each year there are more than 200 million cases of malaria worldwide, a mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite that brings on fever and body aches and, in some cases, more serious conditions such as coma and death. While the vast majority of these cases occur in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the U.S. each year sees more than 1,500 […]
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Rachel Whalen remembers feeling gutted in high school when a former friend would mock her online postings, threaten to unfollow or unfriend her on social media and post inside jokes about her to others online. The cyberbullying was so distressing that Whalen said she contemplated suicide. Once she got help, she decided to limit her time on social media. It […]
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A new study about “13 Reasons Why,” which follows the story of a high school girl who takes her own life, found that suicides among US youths rose significantly in the months following the popular Netflix show’s release. The paper, which was published in JAMA Psychiatry on Wednesday, estimated a 13 percent spike in suicides among 10 to 19-year-olds between […]
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