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For patients undergoing nonemergent cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), use of an extracorporeal blood purification (EBP) device is associated with a lower rate of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI), according to a study. Xosé Pérez-Fernández, Ph.D. and colleagues conducted a double-blind, randomized clinical trial in two tertiary hospitals to examine whether use of an EBP device reduces CSA-AKI after CPB. Adults undergoing nonemergent cardiac surgery who were at high risk for CSA-AKI were randomly assigned to receive EBP or standard care (169 and 174 patients, respectively). The researchers found that the rate of CSA-AKI was 28.4 and 39.7 percent in the...

JUDGE CHUTKAN DENIES TRUMP’S REQUEST TO DELAY RELEASE OF JACK SMITH'S EVIDENCE Judge Tanya Chutkan has rejected Trump's request to delay the release of Jack Smith's redacted evidence appendix past the election. In an order issued this evening, she confirmed the court will release the redacted appendix tomorrow. Trump had argued for a delay, citing political consequences, but Chutkan ruled that withholding the information could constitute—or appear to be—election interference. The appendix relates to Smith's motion challenging Trump's immunity in the Jan. 6 case.

Higher levels of HDL-C—known as the "good cholesterol"—have been shown to correlate with heightened risk for Alzheimer's disease. A new study might explain why. Once women reach the menopause transition, it's a matter of the quality, rather than quantity, of the total cholesterol carried by HDL particles circulating in a woman's bloodstream, and that quality declines over time, according to a research team. HDL particles vary in their size, composition and level of functioning. The team measured these features in the blood of 503 women from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) HDL ancillary study. The researchers...

For patients with acute brain injury, a liberal transfusion strategy is associated with a lower risk for having an unfavorable neurological outcome, according to a study. Fabio Silvio Taccone, M.D., Ph.D., from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, and colleagues examined the impact of two different hemoglobin thresholds to guide red blood cell transfusions on neurological outcome in patients with acute brain injury in a trial conducted in 72 intensive care units across 22 countries. A total of 850 patients were randomly assigned to undergo a liberal or restrictive transfusion strategy over a 28-day period (transfusions triggered by hemoglobin...

In Lebanon Hezbollah says it's transitioning to 'a new and escalatory phase' in the conflict with Israel... A judge in Texas agreeing to a request from state legislators to pause the execution of Robert Roberson... US federal charges against a former Indian intelligence officer over an alleged assassination plot involving a Sikh... Russian Aerospace Forces continuing attacks in Syria on jihadists... The United States sanctioning two Chinese companies along with a Russian company and its leader...linked to... Five Israeli soldiers killed, three others seriously wounded in fighting with Hezbollah... A 52-page report saying the United States Secret Service has "deep...

A deaf Black man with cerebral palsy was allegedly beaten and tased by Phoenix police officers this summer, in a violent incident that has gained national attention following the release of police body camera footage. In the recently publicized bodycam footage, Tyron McAlpin, 34, can be seen walking through a parking lot in Phoenix, on Aug. 19, when he is approached by two officers in separate police vehicles. The footage was provided to NPR by the McAlpin's attorney. Within seconds of first addressing McAlpin, who is deaf, officer Benjamin Harris jumps out of his vehicle and begins punching McAlpin, followed...

In December 2023, for 17 continuous days, a fleet of drones appeared at night over Langley Air Force Base (AFB), Virginia and other facilities in the greater Virginia Beach area. This was reported at the time, but the story was fleeting. Two other events occurred in the area that are relevant to the story. In February 2023, a pair of F-22s from Langley shot down the Chinese spy balloon as it exited the United States over South Carolina into the Atlantic Ocean. In January 2024, a Chinese graduate student at the University of Minnesota, was arrested for flying a drone...

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Newly unsealed court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that Ruben Gallego left his pregnant wife, who was expected to give birth “any day.” The records, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, reveal that Gallego filed for divorce from Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, serving then as a City Councilwoman, and a Motion to seal the records on December 15, 2016. The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday that Gallego failed in an Arizona Supreme Court appeal to keep his divorce records sealed by the courts after a ten-month-long legal battle with the newspaper, costing his campaign over one million...

Donald Trump visited a black barber shop in the Bronx, NY prior to attending the Al Smith Dinner tonight and was applauded by all of the men in the establishment. It is impossible to imagine another Republican candidate for president receiving this kind of treatment in this situation. It is difficult to imagine Kamala Harris even getting this warm reception from the crowd. It’s just one more reminder that if Democrats are not worried about the black vote this year, they should be. NBC News in New York reported the story, but left out any mention of the applause, naturally:...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. George Washington's Prayer And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert...

In keeping with the analysis I did in recent Deeper Dives about how all the good news in economics these days appears to be adjusted into place, we have another clear example today that I'll share with all. The mainstream media is crooning over the strong economy as usual, praise they are prone to make now that we re less than a month from the election. So, let’s start with what Bloomberg had to say: US Retail Sales Showcase Resilience of Economy’s Growth Engine A splendid title with very shiny words like “showcase” alongside another endless reminder that the economy...

During an interview with CNN’s “AC360,” on Thursday, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) responded to a question on if he thinks 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris is different from President Joe Biden by stating that “this is a clear choice between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, not Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.” Host Anderson Cooper asked, “Vice President Harris has been asked in two large venues, most notably last night on Fox, how she would be different, essentially, than President Biden. She said last night that she’s Kamala Harris and that she would not be just an...

Full comedy video Kamala Harris put together for the Al Smith dinner

Kamala Harris bused in "supporters" to a rally in what looked like an obvious effort to make her campaign look bigger than it is. Women dressed in "Handmaid's Tale" garb picketed in front of U.S. Supreme Court Justices' homes to pressure justices into changing their minds, insurrection-style, after the Dobbs draft decision was leaked. Democrat operatives sent agents provocateurs to Trump rallies to try and start fights while in line and disrupt his speeches in 2016. In 2008, at a Hillary Clinton speech, a couple of guys heck Who are these people? Don't these people have jobs to go to?...

The panic on the left is international. U.K. Labour, which is collapsing before our eyes a mere few months after winning a massive majority in the Parliament, is engaging in a massive election interference program here in the United States. When Russia spent a few hundred thousand dollars on grossly ineffective ads aimed at stirring up trouble in 2016, the world went wild. The ruling party of the United Kingdom is literally sending foreign agents to the United States to help the Kamala Harris campaign. So far nobody is making a stink about it. Why on Earth is @UKLabour proactively...

If true, then the 2024 election cycle could shift from merely forgettable for Democrats to downright catastrophic. They have based their electoral strategy on decades of near-total domination of the black-voter demographic to maintain their grip on power. While that applies to municipal elections in big cities, it applies even more to presidential elections. Four years ago, Democrats leveraged that into a stunning win in Georgia, normally a safe state for Republicans in presidential cycles. Joe Biden eked out a narrow 0.3-point margin of victory created mainly by a massive turnout of black voters against Donald Trump, winning 83% of...

A new Fox News poll on immigration shows something surprising; two-thirds of voters favor mass deportation of illegal aliens. The surprising part? That the percentage is that low.At rallies across the country, former President Donald Trump has pledged to enact mass deportations of illegal immigrants, something he vowed to do during his first term but never fully realized.The latest Fox News Poll, released Thursday, finds two-thirds of voters favor such a policy – exactly where it was last December and up 15 points since the question was first asked in 2015. Nearly one-third opposes mass deportations.Since 2015, support for deporting...

On Wednesday night, as Townhall has been covering, Vice President Kamala Harris had her interview with Fox News' Bret Baier. It ended up being a disaster for her and her campaign, with Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), the Republican nominee for vice president, certainly having some thoughts about how Harris performed. Harris bombed so badly that immediately after, Vance quipped over X that Democrats "should consider swapping Kamala Harris for Joe Biden." To my Democratic friends: maybe you should consider swapping Kamala Harris for Joe Biden. — JD Vance (@JDVance) October 16, 2024 Vance also spoke to "Fox & Friends," where...

A terrified organ donor came back to life, thrashing and crying on the operating room table, as surgeons prepared to harvest his body parts, according to witnesses - with one described as 'everybody's worst nightmare.' Thomas 'TJ' Hoover II, 36, had been declared brain dead when surgeons went to remove his organs at Baptist Health Richmond Hospital in Kentucky in October 2021, his sister and former Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates employees told NPR. But as doctors went to test his heart health for transplantation, Hoover reportedly became reanimated. 'He was thrashing around on the table,' Nyckoletta Martin recounted, claiming the...