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RISE Exhibits & Environments Specializes in Custom Tradeshow Booth Design
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Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
This influencer's videos show an active lifestyle. Offline, she's fighting for treatment for a painful condition.
A scroll through Aurora McCausland's wildly popular social media accounts — she has more than 300,000 followers across TikTok and Instagram — shows an active young mom dancing, cleaning and tackling major renovation projects in her Utah home. Behind the scenes, though, is a painful reality: McCausland has lipedema, a progressive and debilitating disease that causes fat in connective tissue to build up disproportionately, most often in the legs, ankles and hips. She said her legs throb with pain, swell unpredictably and feel heavy, like they're filled with cement. It's a major source of frustration for the mother of two young children. Standing up can cause her to black out. 'Things that I feel like I should be able to do cause pain pretty quickly, and then I kind of have to tap out,' said McCausland, 30, of West Valley City, Utah. 'Getting down to play with my kids is really hard.' She's tried to manage the pain with compression garments, lymphatic drainage and anti-inflammatory diets. 'Those are helpful at potentially slowing down the disease,' her physician, Dr. David Smart, said. 'But really, only surgery helps to reverse the disease process.' Smart is a dermatologic surgeon at the Roxbury Institute in Murray, Utah. He performs a specialized type of liposuction that removes the diseased tissue to restore mobility. The procedure is not cosmetic, and despite the buildup of fat, lipedema is not related to obesity. It's not caused by overeating or inactivity. It's a hormonally-driven inflammatory condition, one that's largely resistant to diet and exercise. 'It goes against the more traditional health dogma that's out there about normal fat,' Smart said. Lipedema is almost exclusively seen in women, but scientists don't have a good handle on how many are affected. Some estimates suggest it may affect up to 11% of women. 'There are no large-scale, population-based epidemiologic estimates. We don't have blood tests. We don't have imaging studies,' said Dr. Aaron Aday, co-director of vascular medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Many women first notice symptoms of lipedema at puberty, and the disease often worsens during major hormonal shifts like pregnancy or menopause. McCausland said her symptoms first appeared during her early teens: leg pain, swelling and bruising from the slightest touch. 'I thought it was just growing pains,' she said. Fat built up around her ankles. No matter how physically active she was — dancing and CrossFit were two hobbies — she couldn't make the fat in her lower legs go away. Still, she was told it was just excess weight. 'That if I worked out more, ate less, it would go away,' she said. 'But no matter what I did, my legs just hurt more. I was doing everything right and getting worse.' If you are dealing with bills that seem to be out of line or a denial of coverage, care or repairs, whether for health, home or auto, please email us at Costofdenial@ McCausland's five sisters experienced similar symptoms. She said none knew what the problem was until one of the sisters got liposuction to slim down her lower legs. But lipedema fat isn't the same as typical fat. Instead of feeling soft, it can feel like hard nodules under the skin. Regular liposuction can be risky to use on lipedema patients. It took far longer than it should have for her sister's doctor to do the procedure, McCausland said. 'The doctor ended up giving her third-degree internal burns all on her legs, because he didn't know that it wasn't normal fat. He just kept going, having to go over and over and over trying to remove it,' she said. 'It was just this horrible thing that happened. Obviously the doctor had no idea that she had this condition, and neither did my sister.' Aday — who hasn't treated McCausland — said that a specialized type of liposuction, performed by a surgeon with extensive knowledge of lipedema, is the most effective way to treat the disorder. It can reverse symptoms in many people. Some patients, he said, may have to have the procedure repeated. The Roxbury Institute said that McCausland would need two liposuction surgeries, totaling more than $35,000. But her former insurance provider, Cigna Healthcare, denied coverage for the procedure twice. In an emailed statement, a Cigna representative said: 'Lipedema is a painful condition that disproportionately impacts women, and we cover a range of treatment options, including liposuction, for patients that meet evidence-based clinical criteria. Ms. McCausland's case was carefully reviewed by multiple doctors, including a plastic surgeon with expertise in lipedema. Based on the information submitted by her doctor, she did not meet the clinical criteria for liposuction at that time.' McCausland believes her coverage was denied because she didn't look sick enough, adding that she suspects it's based on her social media posts. They said 'that it's not medically necessary,' McCausland said. 'That's absurd. They're not looking at how I live. They're looking at a photo and deciding I don't look bad enough to be helped.' Cigna told NBC News that social media isn't considered when making coverage decisions. 'Our coverage decisions are based on the clinical information submitted by a patient's treating physician in accordance with coverage policies and the patient's plan design,' the representative said. Her health insurance has since switched to MotivHealth, because of her husband's new job. McCausland said MotivHealth has already suggested to her in a phone call that it's not a procedure it usually covers but she can submit additional documentation. A representative for the company did not respond to several requests for comment. Lipedema is categorized in four stages, based on visual appearance. Stage 1 looks like minor fat accumulation and Stage 4 appears as severe leg disfigurement. Appearance, however, doesn't always match the severity of symptoms. 'You can have a Stage 1 patient that has very severe and crippling symptoms of pain and swelling, and somebody who is maybe more progressed visibly that doesn't have such severe symptoms,' Smart said. McCausland is a prime example. She doesn't look sick, according to some commenters on her social media videos. 'I've gotten a handful of people saying, 'Well, I've looked at your other videos, and I agree with your insurance company,'' she said. 'This is very likely the reason why lipedema has been so under-recognized for such a long time,' Smart said. 'So many people, so many insurance companies, so many physicians, have been telling lipedema patients for decades to just 'work out, eat better, lose weight,' when that's not actually the problem.' He said waiting until the condition progresses is dangerous. Without treatment, lipedema advances, causing more inflammation, worsening pain and permanent joint damage. The longer surgery is delayed, the harder it is to restore mobility in later stages. 'It's really unfortunate for Aurora, because at that early stage, it is less likely that she gets insurance coverage,' Smart said. 'They're not looking at the severity of her symptoms. They're not looking at the severity of her pain, the decrease in mobility, her lack of ability to be able to perform those daily activities of living.' Jonathan Kartt, chief executive officer of the Lipedema Foundation, said that the pain experienced by women with lipedema can be measured objectively. Using a tool to measure how patients perceive stimuli like temperature and touch, researchers in Germany found that women with lipedema had a lower pain threshold compared with other women. The pain was specific to areas affected by the disease. 'The differences were so stark,' Kartt said, that it's possible to use 'this test to actually diagnose or confirm a diagnosis of lipedema.' Aday, of Vanderbilt, is leading an effort to create a national biobank of information on lipedema patients. The team takes blood samples and urine, as well as fat and skin biopsies. 'It's meant to be a living research resource,' he said. 'We want other investigators to use these data, build upon it and generate new data.' There is also growing excitement in the lipedema field to see whether the blockbuster GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic and Wegovy, might be useful. The drugs are mainly used to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity, but have been shown to provide benefits for other diseases. Aday is working to secure funding for such a study. This article was originally published on
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
This influencer's videos show an active lifestyle. Offline, she's fighting for treatment for a painful condition.
A scroll through Aurora McCausland's wildly popular social media accounts — she has more than 300,000 followers across TikTok and Instagram — shows an active young mom dancing, cleaning and tackling major renovation projects in her Utah home. Behind the scenes, though, is a painful reality: McCausland has lipedema, a progressive and debilitating disease that causes fat in connective tissue to build up disproportionately, most often in the legs, ankles and hips. She said her legs throb with pain, swell unpredictably and feel heavy, like they're filled with cement. It's a major source of frustration for the mother of two young children. Standing up can cause her to black out. 'Things that I feel like I should be able to do cause pain pretty quickly, and then I kind of have to tap out,' said McCausland, 30, of West Valley City, Utah. 'Getting down to play with my kids is really hard.' She's tried to manage the pain with compression garments, lymphatic drainage and anti-inflammatory diets. 'Those are helpful at potentially slowing down the disease,' her physician, Dr. David Smart, said. 'But really, only surgery helps to reverse the disease process.' Smart is a dermatologic surgeon at the Roxbury Institute in Murray, Utah. He performs a specialized type of liposuction that removes the diseased tissue to restore mobility. The procedure is not cosmetic, and despite the buildup of fat, lipedema is not related to obesity. It's not caused by overeating or inactivity. It's a hormonally-driven inflammatory condition, one that's largely resistant to diet and exercise. 'It goes against the more traditional health dogma that's out there about normal fat,' Smart said. Lipedema is almost exclusively seen in women, but scientists don't have a good handle on how many are affected. Some estimates suggest it may affect up to 11% of women. 'There are no large-scale, population-based epidemiologic estimates. We don't have blood tests. We don't have imaging studies,' said Dr. Aaron Aday, co-director of vascular medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Many women first notice symptoms of lipedema at puberty, and the disease often worsens during major hormonal shifts like pregnancy or menopause. McCausland said her symptoms first appeared during her early teens: leg pain, swelling and bruising from the slightest touch. 'I thought it was just growing pains,' she said. Fat built up around her ankles. No matter how physically active she was — dancing and CrossFit were two hobbies — she couldn't make the fat in her lower legs go away. Still, she was told it was just excess weight. 'That if I worked out more, ate less, it would go away,' she said. 'But no matter what I did, my legs just hurt more. I was doing everything right and getting worse.' If you are dealing with bills that seem to be out of line or a denial of coverage, care or repairs, whether for health, home or auto, please email us at Costofdenial@ McCausland's five sisters experienced similar symptoms. She said none knew what the problem was until one of the sisters got liposuction to slim down her lower legs. But lipedema fat isn't the same as typical fat. Instead of feeling soft, it can feel like hard nodules under the skin. Regular liposuction can be risky to use on lipedema patients. It took far longer than it should have for her sister's doctor to do the procedure, McCausland said. 'The doctor ended up giving her third-degree internal burns all on her legs, because he didn't know that it wasn't normal fat. He just kept going, having to go over and over and over trying to remove it,' she said. 'It was just this horrible thing that happened. Obviously the doctor had no idea that she had this condition, and neither did my sister.' Aday — who hasn't treated McCausland — said that a specialized type of liposuction, performed by a surgeon with extensive knowledge of lipedema, is the most effective way to treat the disorder. It can reverse symptoms in many people. Some patients, he said, may have to have the procedure repeated. The Roxbury Institute said that McCausland would need two liposuction surgeries, totaling more than $35,000. But her former insurance provider, Cigna Healthcare, denied coverage for the procedure twice. In an emailed statement, a Cigna representative said: 'Lipedema is a painful condition that disproportionately impacts women, and we cover a range of treatment options, including liposuction, for patients that meet evidence-based clinical criteria. Ms. McCausland's case was carefully reviewed by multiple doctors, including a plastic surgeon with expertise in lipedema. Based on the information submitted by her doctor, she did not meet the clinical criteria for liposuction at that time.' McCausland believes her coverage was denied because she didn't look sick enough, adding that she suspects it's based on her social media posts. They said 'that it's not medically necessary,' McCausland said. 'That's absurd. They're not looking at how I live. They're looking at a photo and deciding I don't look bad enough to be helped.' Cigna told NBC News that social media isn't considered when making coverage decisions. 'Our coverage decisions are based on the clinical information submitted by a patient's treating physician in accordance with coverage policies and the patient's plan design,' the representative said. Her health insurance has since switched to MotivHealth, because of her husband's new job. McCausland said MotivHealth has already suggested to her in a phone call that it's not a procedure it usually covers but she can submit additional documentation. A representative for the company did not respond to several requests for comment. Lipedema is categorized in four stages, based on visual appearance. Stage 1 looks like minor fat accumulation and Stage 4 appears as severe leg disfigurement. Appearance, however, doesn't always match the severity of symptoms. 'You can have a Stage 1 patient that has very severe and crippling symptoms of pain and swelling, and somebody who is maybe more progressed visibly that doesn't have such severe symptoms,' Smart said. McCausland is a prime example. She doesn't look sick, according to some commenters on her social media videos. 'I've gotten a handful of people saying, 'Well, I've looked at your other videos, and I agree with your insurance company,'' she said. 'This is very likely the reason why lipedema has been so under-recognized for such a long time,' Smart said. 'So many people, so many insurance companies, so many physicians, have been telling lipedema patients for decades to just 'work out, eat better, lose weight,' when that's not actually the problem.' He said waiting until the condition progresses is dangerous. Without treatment, lipedema advances, causing more inflammation, worsening pain and permanent joint damage. The longer surgery is delayed, the harder it is to restore mobility in later stages. 'It's really unfortunate for Aurora, because at that early stage, it is less likely that she gets insurance coverage,' Smart said. 'They're not looking at the severity of her symptoms. They're not looking at the severity of her pain, the decrease in mobility, her lack of ability to be able to perform those daily activities of living.' Jonathan Kartt, chief executive officer of the Lipedema Foundation, said that the pain experienced by women with lipedema can be measured objectively. Using a tool to measure how patients perceive stimuli like temperature and touch, researchers in Germany found that women with lipedema had a lower pain threshold compared with other women. The pain was specific to areas affected by the disease. 'The differences were so stark,' Kartt said, that it's possible to use 'this test to actually diagnose or confirm a diagnosis of lipedema.' Aday, of Vanderbilt, is leading an effort to create a national biobank of information on lipedema patients. The team takes blood samples and urine, as well as fat and skin biopsies. 'It's meant to be a living research resource,' he said. 'We want other investigators to use these data, build upon it and generate new data.' There is also growing excitement in the lipedema field to see whether the blockbuster GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic and Wegovy, might be useful. The drugs are mainly used to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity, but have been shown to provide benefits for other diseases. Aday is working to secure funding for such a study. This article was originally published on
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Yahoo
Teen accused of fatal West Valley City shooting charged as an adult
The Salt Lake County District Attorney building in Salt Lake City is pictured on Wednesday, January 3, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) The 16-year-old accused of shooting and killing three people — including a pregnant woman and an infant — at a West Valley City carnival over the weekend is being charged as an adult. Prosecutors charged Matthiaz Cantre Lauti Ioane-Register with four counts of aggravated murder and nine counts of felony discharge of a firearm in Salt Lake County's 3rd District Court, according to court documents unveiled on Friday. Police say Ioane-Register was at West Valley City's WestFest on Sunday when he opened fire in a crowded area, killing an 18-year-old who was believed to be the intended target, as well as a 41-year-old woman and an 8-month-old baby. The baby was killed in a stroller alongside their twin sibling, prosecutors say. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX The 41-year-old woman was eight weeks pregnant, according to Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill. Ioane-Register is also being charged with the murder of her unborn child. Two other teenagers — a 15-year-old and 17-year-old —- were injured after sustaining gunshot wounds to their arms, Gill said. Per federal law, children charged as adults cannot face the death penalty or be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Ioane-Register is currently being held in jail without bail. Gill also confirmed an ongoing investigation into whether responding officers fired their weapons. On Sunday, a West Valley City Police Department spokesperson said one of the officers fired a single round toward the suspect, but didn't hit him or any of the victims. 'Anytime a law enforcement officer uses any lethal force we have a task force that is involved to do that investigation,' Gill said. 'That did happen and that's a separate, unconnected investigation that is pending.' Gill told reporters that the shooting is likely gang-related. Ioane-Register, believed to be a member of the gang Titanic Crips Society, was seen on surveillance footage confronting a group of people at the carnival who Gill said were likely part of a rival gang. Moments later, Ioane-Register opened fire, using a handgun that prosecutors say was reported stolen in Louisiana. 8-month-old baby among 3 dead from shooting at West Valley City carnival Officers recovered 12 shell casings from the area, according to court documents. They believe Ioane-Register fired the handgun in the crowded area until the magazine was empty. The 16-year-old then quickly turned to flee but was apprehended by police. Gill described the aftermath of the shooting as tense, as people gathered around a detained Ioane-Register, yelling at him and screaming 'F— TCS,' the acronym for the gang. Police then moved Ioane-Register to a more secluded area, according to the charges, where he denied shooting anyone other than his intended target, for whom he appeared to show little remorse. 'I'm gonna tell you guys right now, I know what I hit because I know where I was aiming, and I know where I was shooting. I did not hit no baby (sic). It was only one person I hit,' he told officers, according to court documents. 'He was already over there on the ground, and I been hitting him. That was the only person I went for. No other bullets went flying elsewhere. There was only one direction. So, there is no way I hit that baby.' But later, when he was interviewed by detectives, Ioane-Register changed his story, telling them he didn't know the 18-year-old intended victim, didn't have a firearm and spent the evening 'at WestFest with some homies, just chilling,' according to prosecutors. When officers told him the 18-year-old was killed, he 'laughed and smiled,' court documents read, telling officers he 'just liked to laugh about things that are funny.' Gill said on Friday that while violent crime in Salt Lake County isn't necessarily increasing, he's noticing more intense crimes involving younger suspects. Historically, most homicide suspects in Utah are between the ages of 19 to 28 years old. But according to a recent report from the University of Utah School of Social Work, Gill said that range is now 10 to 19 years old. 'We are becoming more organized, we are becoming more sophisticated as well as the proliferation and access of stolen guns in younger and younger ages is causing this kind of stuff,' he said. Gill called for more resources to curb what he described as a growing problem. 'Instead of fighting with hands or other things, the easy access to guns is driving these numbers. And that's something we should pay attention to,' he said. 'I think we have about four to six years to invest in the infrastructure so we can stay on top of it.' SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Yahoo
Teen charged with 4 counts of murder in Utah carnival shooting
Prosecutors in Utah charged a 16-year-old boy with four counts of murder Friday for allegedly shooting to death three people, including an infant and pregnant woman, in an apparent gang confrontation at a carnival. In all, five people, including two teens wounded in the arm, were shot late Sunday at WestFest in West Valley City, a Salt Lake City suburb. The shooting happened a day after one at a 'No Kings' protest the day before, making for an unusually violent weekend for the Salt Lake City area. Two of those killed were bystanders: the 8-month-old boy and 41-year-old pregnant woman, Fnu Reena, 41, of West Jordan, Utah. An 18-year-old man slain, Hassan Lugundi, of West Valley City, was the apparent intended target, according to a police affidavit filed in the case. 'I'm gonna tell you guys right now, I know what I hit because I know where I was aiming, and I know where I was shooting. I did not hit no baby,' the teen allegedly told police soon after the shooting. Police learned later that Reena was eight weeks pregnant, resulting in the fourth murder count under Utah law. Shot in her head, Reena had just been in for a medical checkup that day, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said at a news conference Friday. The infant, also shot in the head, was in a stroller with his twin sibling, who was unhurt. The infant was unrelated to the other victims. A 17-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy were each shot in the arm, and a pregnant woman was injured while trying to flee over a fence, according to police. Besides the murder charges, the alleged shooter faced nine felony counts of discharging a firearm resulting in serious injury. Each murder charge could bring a life sentence if not the death penalty for an adult. As a juvenile, the suspect was ineligible for the death penalty or life in prison. Prosecutors asked that the teenager remain jailed without bond. Court documents did not identify an attorney for the youth who could speak on his behalf. The gun used in the shooting was a Taurus G2C 9 mm handgun reported stolen in Louisiana, according to police. The alleged shooter was a member of the Titanic Crip Society, a rival of the Bloods gang. Lugundi was friends with Bloods members, according to the affidavit. The WestFest carnival, a celebration of the establishment of West Valley City and of its cultural diversity, was winding down after drawing as many as 10,000 people over the weekend. Between 1,000 to 2,000 people were still present when the shooting happened. The apparently unrelated shooting at the 'No Kings' protest the day before happened when a man believed to be part of a peacekeeping team for the rally shot at a man brandishing a rifle at demonstrators, striking both the rifleman and a bystander. The rifleman had relatively minor injuries, but the bystander died at a hospital.
