Young Col. Washington came home to Mount Vernon packed in a foam-lined wooden box that was fastened with 14 screws and labeled “keep dry.”
He had been away for 216 years, but inside his gilded frame he still looked soldierly in his red waistcoat and pale sash. Around his neck he wore a silver officer’s pendant, marked with the British royal coat of arms.
And his face was that of a confident man, accustomed to command. Read More...
BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company that they accused of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system.
Tissue taken from the Black woman’s tumor before she died of cervical cancer became the first human cells to continuously grow and reproduce in lab dishes. Read More...
People are keen to learn about Larry Nassar religion after he was stabbed multiple times by another inmate at a federal prison.
Larry Nassar, a former doctor for USA Gymnastics, was found guilty of sexually assaulting many young people, including Olympic gymnasts.
He was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, in 1963. He studied osteopathic medicine at Michigan State University and started working at their sports medicine clinic. In 1996, he became the team doctor for USA Gymnastics. Read More...
