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UPI
5 days ago
- Health
- UPI
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez launches gubernatorial bid
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez is running for governor, the former emergency room nurse confirmed Friday. Photo courtesy of Governor of Wisconsin's office July 25 (UPI) -- Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez is running for governor, the former emergency room nurse confirmed Friday. "I'm used to being on my feet and getting right to the point, so let's go. First, I have an announcement. I'm running for governor," Rodriguez announced in a video released Friday, her 50th birthday. Rodriguez joins the Democratic primary field to replace Gov. Tony Evers, D-Wis. Evers, 73, announced in a video Thursday he would not seek re-election in November when he will turn 74. Evers has been the Governor of Wisconsin for six years and in public service for 50 years. Rodriguez is the first big name to enter the race to replace Evers. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley confirmed Thursday to Spectrum News 1 Wisconsin that he plans to run. Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes posted a photo of himself with Evers on X Thursday, thanking him for his service. Barnes served as lieutenant governor during Evers' first term and has hinted at a run for the office. Rodriguez previously worked in the emergency department of Baltimore's Mercy Medical Center. She later took a job at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 2004 and 2006 before returning to Wisconsin. Increasing salaries for public teachers and expanding Medicaid access are among the promises Rodriguez makes in the video. "Look, we've got a real shot at flipping the state Legislature and with a Democratic governor, we can finally expand Medicaid and boost our healthcare workforce," Rodriguez says in the video, that also touches on her family's working-class roots in Wisconsin. "With a Democratic governor, we can finally expand Medicaid and boost our healthcare workforce, strengthen our farms, unions, and small businesses, fund our public schools and give teachers the raise they've earned. That's the right path."
Indian Express
19-06-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
‘No one is immune': Netanyahu hints at Khamenei strike, says Trump ‘knows the game'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not rule out targeting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, adding that 'No one is immune.' Touring Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba after it was struck by an Iranian missile earlier in the day, Netanyahu said, 'all the options are open.' according to The Times of Israel. He added: 'It's best not to speak about this in the press.' The remarks come amid escalating rhetoric from top Israeli officials following Iran's missile strike on the southern Israeli city, which damaged the hospital but caused no serious injuries as patients and staff were already in protected areas. Defence Minister Israel Katz has already made direct threats against Khamenei, stating earlier that the supreme leader 'can no longer be allowed to exist.' Netanyahu also addressed the question of US involvement in the conflict, saying: 'It's a decision for President Trump. He will do what is good for America, and I will do what's good for Israel,' adding that Trump 'knows the game.' The Israeli prime minister insisted that the country is capable of completing its military objectives independently if necessary: 'At the end of this operation, there will be no nuclear threat on Israel, and there won't be a ballistic threat.' As the military conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies, Trump has threatened that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is 'an easy target' for American forces. 'We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now … Our patience is wearing thin,' Trump said in a Truth Social post on Tuesday.
Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
FOXO TECHNOLOGIES INC.'S CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITAL ANNOUNCES NEW WOUND CARE SERVICES OFFERING
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, June 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FOXO Technologies Inc. (NYSE American: FOXO) ('FOXO' or the 'Company') today announced that its critical access hospital, Big South Fork Medical Center located in Oneida, Tennessee, has commenced offering wound care services to patients both on an inpatient and outpatient basis. The hospital has experienced a growing demand for wound care services in its market service area, particularly for diabetic patients who have wounds often characterized by excessive inflammation and reduced angiogenesis and have a higher risk for postoperative wound healing complications. 'We are pleased that our critical access hospital in rural, East Tennessee is expanding its services that will, in turn, increase net revenues and we are working closely with hospital leadership to further expand our market reach which may include other, needed service offerings at our Oneida campus or other locations in the region,' stated Seamus Lagan, Chief Executive Officer of parent company, FOXO Technologies Inc. About FOXO Technologies Inc. ('FOXO') FOXO owns and operates three subsidiaries. Rennova Community Health, Inc., owns and operates Scott County Community Hospital, Inc. (d/b/a Big South Fork Medical Center), a critical access designated (CAH) hospital in East Tennessee. Myrtle Recovery Centers, Inc., a 30-bed behavioral health facility in East Tennessee. Myrtle provides inpatient services for detox and residential treatment and outpatient services for MAT and OBOT Programs. FOXO Labs, Inc. is a biotechnology company dedicated to improving human health and life span through the development of cutting-edge technology and product solutions for various industries. For more information about FOXO, visit Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the 'safe harbor' provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the FOXO's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, and a number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. These factors include, but are not limited to the risk of changes in the competitive and highly regulated industries in which FOXO operates; variations in operating performance across competitors or changes in laws and regulations affecting FOXO's business; the ability to implement FOXO's business plans, forecasts, and other expectations; the ability to obtain financing; the risk that FOXO has a history of losses and may not achieve or maintain profitability in the future; potential inability of FOXO to establish or maintain relationships required to advance its goals or to achieve its commercialization and development plans; the enforceability of FOXO's intellectual property, including its patents and the potential infringement on the intellectual property rights of others; and the risk of downturns and a changing regulatory landscape in the highly competitive biotechnology industry or in the markets or industries in which FOXO operates. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. Readers should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties discussed in FOXO's most recent reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, particularly the 'Risk Factors' sections of those reports, and in other documents FOXO has filed, or will file, with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and FOXO assumes no obligation and do not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Contact: Sebastien Sainsburyssainsbury@ (561) 485-0151
Boston Globe
16-06-2025
- Health
- Boston Globe
Nina Kuscsik, marathoner who broke gender barriers, dies at 86
She ran more than 80 marathons raising three children for part of that time as a single mother, all while working as a patient representative at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. Advertisement A photo provided by Chris Sheridan shows Nina Kuscsik during a 10-mile Road Runners Club of America race at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx in 1971. CHRIS SHERIDAN/NYT But Kuscsik and other female runners first encountered fierce resistance from a male-dominated running establishment, which believed, along with many scientists and doctors, that women would risk infertility and even possibly lose their uteruses if they competed in marathons. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Kuscsik often said in response, 'I proved it over and over -- my uterus didn't fall out; I'm fine,' her daughter recalled in an interview. Still, female marathon runners encountered formidable roadblocks in the 1960s. When Roberta Gibb tried to enter the Boston Marathon in 1966, she was told in a letter by the race director that women were 'not physiologically capable' of running a marathon. To become the first woman to unofficially run Boston, Gibb hid behind bushes near the start. Then she jumped into the race wearing a hoodie over her long blond hair, along with her brother's Bermuda shorts, having trained for the marathon in cushioned nurse's shoes because running shoes had not yet been made for women. Advertisement In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was famously confronted on the Boston course by a race official who grabbed her and tried to tear off her racing bib, only to be body-blocked by Switzer's boyfriend. Kuscsik first ran the Boston Marathon in 1969 as a so-called 'bandit' -- without a bib or an official entry. By 1970, attitudes had begun to change when Fred Lebow, a showman who organized and promoted the inaugural New York City Marathon that year, sought women to compete in the race, which was then held entirely on hilly loops of Central Park. (It now traverses all five of the city's boroughs.) In New York, Kuscsik was the lone woman among the 127 entrants. Experiencing a cold and a stomach virus, she dropped out at 14 miles, concerned about the optics of 'look what happens when a woman runs.' In a 2004 interview, she told The New York Times that had she known how huge the race would become -- last year, it had more than 55,000 finishers, including 24,732 women and 120 nonbinary runners -- she 'would have gone back and finished.' She got another chance in New York in 1971. This time, Beth Bonner (2 hours, 55 minutes, 22 seconds) and Kuscsik (2:56.04) became the first American women to run 26.2 miles in under three hours. That same year, Kuscsik persuaded the Amateur Athletic Union, then the sport's governing body, to begin giving 'certain women' permission to run a full marathon. It was a dramatic shift from the 1960s, when the organization allowed women to run no farther than a mile and a half in sanctioned races. Advertisement 'Nina did all the AAU work; she was willing to go to all the meetings,' Switzer said in an interview. 'She would take medical data with her.' Kuscsik became the first official winner of the Boston Marathon in the women's category in April 1972. Change, though, came gradually on many fronts. An Olympic marathon for women would not be held until 1984, after Kuscsik and others had lobbied for its inclusion. After running the Boston Marathon three times as a 'bandit,' Kuscsik and seven other women were officially permitted to enter the race in 1972. Despite experiencing stomach distress again, she became the first acknowledged women's winner and received a laurel wreath as the victor, with her time of 3:10:26 entered into the race results. (BEGIN OPTIONAL TRIM.) Weeks later, in June, Kuscsik, Switzer and Lebow organized the first all-women road race, a 10-kilometer event in Central Park sponsored by the Crazylegs skin care company. Some criticized the Crazylegs Mini Marathon, as it was billed, as exploitative because Playboy bunnies mingled at the starting line and runners were encouraged to shave their legs with the sponsor's shaving cream beforehand. But women's sports historian Cat Ariail wrote in 2015 that the 10k event also showed that 'given an inclusive race, more women would participate in the sport.' (END OPTIONAL TRIM.) On Oct. 1, 1972, at the start of the New York City Marathon, Kuscsik joined a publicity stunt that would help eliminate the AAU's rule that women should start marathons separately from men, such as 10 minutes before or after. Advertisement At Lebow's behest, and with reporters having been alerted beforehand, Kuscsik and five other female runners sat down in protest when the starter's gun fired. They carried signs that called the AAU rule 'archaic.' and 'Midevil.' Ten minutes later, the women got up and began running. Kuscsik finished first among women, though 10 minutes were added to the protesters' finishing times. Kuscsik and others had filed a lawsuit challenging the separate-start requirement: It was discontinued later in 1972. Eventually, though, she came to agree with separate starts, which are the standard today for elite runners at major marathons, allowing women to receive more prominent coverage during television broadcasts. Kuscsik went on to win New York again in 1973 and Boston again in 1974, and also ran races as varied as a run to the top of the Empire State Building. Nina Louise Marmorino was born Jan. 2, 1939, in Brooklyn. Her father, George Marmorino, was a salesperson and president of the International Stamp Club of New York. Her mother, Louise (Tischer) Marmorino was a nurse. Nina followed her mother's path, obtaining her nurse's license, working at what is now the Brooklyn Hospital Center before her children were born. She was a patients' representative at Mount Sinai for about 40 years. Fascinated by the first sub-four-minute mile achieved in 1954 by Roger Bannister, a medical student from England, Kuscsik began running in 1967 while pregnant with her third child, doing laps around the block where the family lived in Huntington Station, New York. Her marriage in 1961 to Richard Kuscsik ended in the early 1970s, partly, she told the Times in 1973, because of her running. She lacked confidence, she said, until she began running and 'came out of my shell.' Advertisement In addition to her daughter, she is survived by her sons, Stephen and Timothy; a sister, Helen Flamini; a brother, George Marmorino; and two grandsons. (STORY CAN END HERE. OPTIONAL MATERIAL FOLLOWS.) Once she took up running, Kuscsik expressed impatience with those who questioned it. Several weeks after her 1972 victory in Boston, according to Runner's World magazine, a reporter asked her: 'Long-distance running isn't the most womanly thing a woman can do; all that sweating and grunting, so why do you do it?' She replied: 'Who says it is not the most feminine thing a woman can do and who says sweating or grunting isn't feminine? I have yet to meet a female runner who grunts. Although a lot of men do. Running is neither masculine or feminine. It's just healthy.' This article originally appeared in
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Yahoo
Lyle 18-year-old injured in Interstate 35 crash Monday
Jun. 10—WEBSTER TOWNSHIP, Minn. — A Lyle man was injured in a crash with a semi-truck Monday, June 9, 2025, on Interstate 35 in Rice County. A 2011 Jeep Liberty and a 2022 International semi-truck were southbound on Interstate 35 near milepost 71 when they collided around 11:04 a.m., according to a Minnesota State Patrol crash report. The driver of the Jeep, Aiden Lee Lambert, 18, of Lyle, was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the International, Nathanyel Mychal Daley, 22, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was also transported to Hennepin County Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. The Rice County Sheriff's Office and Northfield Ambulance also responded to the scene.
