Health

It’s time to keep an eye out for Japanese beetles, one of the most easily recognized and destructive garden pests. In June and July, grubs in the soil of lawns turn into adult beetles that start feeding on foliage.“Japanese beetles are double trouble,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist in the Plant Clinic at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle. They do damage both in the grub stage, when they eat the roots of grass plants, and at the adult beetle stage, when they feed on many plants’ leaves.Adult beetles feed on about 300 different species of ornamental plants, but especially favor roses, grapevines, and crabapple, cherry and linden trees. They eat the tissue between the leaf veins, leaving just the skeleton of a leaf.Japanese beetles have oval, metallic green bodies about ¼ to ½ l...

Five people, including a father and his two juvenile sons, were declared dead in the wake of a fire that destroyed a house in North Carolina on Sunday morning, authorities said.The Father's Day blaze erupted at a residence in Broadway, population 1,316, about 40 miles southwest of Raleigh. Harnett County Sheriff's Maj. Aaron Meredith said the dead include Daniel Garner, 39, and his boys, whose names were being withheld because they were not adults.The three were staying at the home with friends who lived there, Meredith told NBC affiliate WRAL of Raleigh.The friends, a married couple, were identified as Michael Breymeyer, 74, and Tammy Breymeyer, 58, the major said.The cause of the fire on Camp Ground Lane was under investigation.Dennis RomeroDennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for ...

Some dads might get gift cards, steak dinners or new golf clubs for Father’s Day.Yet Jose Calixto, 56, received something far more significant for the occasion this year.A few weeks ago, Jonathan Calixto, 30, saved his father’s life by donating a healthy kidney."I never hesitated," the son told Fox News Digital.FATHERHOOD IS ‘HEROIC ROLE' FOR MEN, SAYS FILMMAKER AND DEFENDER OF DADS JOHN PAPOLA Ahead of Father’s Day weekend, father and son revealed how the operation changed their lives.Easy decisionJose Calixto, a porter at a New York City building, learned he had kidney disease during a routine physical 10 years ago — an effect of medications he took when he was younger, he said. He was able to live with the disease without intervention for several years, but his condition took a turn fo...

A century ago, a well-ventilated building was considered good medicine. But by the time Covid-19 arrived, our buildings could barely breathe. How did that happen? And how do we let the fresh air back in?

This representational picture shows a space shuttle in space. — Unsplash/FileScientists have travelled to various places around the world in their never-ending search for medicinal innovation, but this particular attempt to make an inventive discovery has literally taken them to another planet.A 200-pound (90-kilogram) capsule intended to carry drug research into Earth's orbit was successfully launched on June 12 by California startup Varda Space Industries.The experiment, carried out in microgravity by straightforward onboard devices, aims to determine whether it would be feasible to conduct remote pharmaceutical manufacturing in space, according to journalist Katie Hunt at CNN.According to her, in contrast to those grown on Earth, protein crystals grown in a weightless environment ca...

One year after Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should reconsider whether the Constitution affords Americans a right to birth control, Democrats and reproductive rights advocates are laying the groundwork for state-by-state battles over access to contraception — an issue they hope to turn against Republicans in 2024.The justice’s argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned Roe v. Wade and the right to abortion, galvanized the reproductive rights movement. House Democrats, joined by eight Republicans, promptly passed legislation that would have created a national right to contraception. Republicans blocked a companion bill in the Senate.Now, reproductive rights advocates are pressing their case in the states. Even before Dobbs, some stat...