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A 9-year-old girl who was bitten on the hand by a shark in Florida is speaking out about the terrifying moment she was attacked.Leah Lendel was snorkeling near Boca Grande on June 11 when “something hard bit me and then tried to tug me away,” she said at a news conference Thursday alongside her parents and the doctors who treated her.”Then I pick up my hand and it’s all in blood,” Leah said. “Then I started screaming with my mom.”MORE: 9-year-old girl nearly loses her hand in shark attack off Florida Gulf Coast”There was so much blood in the water…
A 9-year-old girl in Florida is recovering from surgery after a shark nearly bit her hand off while she was snorkeling off a Boca Grande beach last week.Leah Lendel spoke about that terrifying moment Thursday during a press conference at the Tampa General Hospital, where she received treatment.”I didn’t see anything. I was just snorkeling,” Leah said. “I went up to breathe. And then, something hard bit me and tried to take me away.””Then I pick up my hand and is all in blood,” Leah recalled. “I start screaming with my mom.”Leah’s mother, Nadia Lendel, said that after seeing the…
Leah Lendel and her family were enjoying a typical day on the Florida Gulf Coast: walking around near a lighthouse, getting ice cream, then going to the beach to wade in the water, snorkeling, getting some pizza.But as the 9-year-old was snorkeling with her siblings and her dad, she felt something pull, hard, on her arm. She started screaming, first in pain, then in horror.”My hand was all in blood,” she said as she recounted being attacked by a shark June 11. “I started screaming for my mom.”At a news conference June 19, Leah and her parents talked about what…
Some ready-to-eat chicken fettuccine Alfredo meals are being voluntarily recalled by food manufacturer FreshRealm following a nationwide listeria outbreak linked to 17 illnesses and three deaths.FreshRealm issued the recall Tuesday for refrigerated chicken fettuccine Alfredo meals sold nationwide at Kroger and Walmart stores under Marketside and Home Chef brand names, the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced.The outbreak has been linked to three deaths, a pregnancy loss and 16 hospitalizations, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The deaths were reported in Illinois, Michigan and Texas.Illness began between July 24, 2024, and May 10,…
A children’s cough syrup from brand Little Remedies is being recalled due to microbial contamination, according to federal health officials.In an alert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, Medtech Products Inc., the brands’ manufacturer, voluntarily issued the recall due to the presence of Bacillus cereus, which can cause two types of food-borne illnesses, and loss of shelf-stability.The product, “Little Remedies® Honey Cough Syrup” with item number 7-56184-10737-9, was distributed nationwide in retailers and online from Dec. 14, 2022 through June 4, 2025.The cough syrup is packaged in a 4-fluid-ounce amber bottle in an outer carton, with the…
BERLIN (AP) — Newly crowned French Open champion Coco Gauff was stunned on her return to action Thursday, losing to Chinese qualifier Wang Xinyu 6-3, 6-3 at the Berlin Open.The second-ranked Gauff, who won at Roland-Garros less than two weeks ago for her second Grand Slam title, amassed 25 unforced errors and seven double faults in her loss to Wang.Gauff had a bye to the second round at the grass-court tournament, a warmup for Wimbledon.“It was a tough one today but happy to be back on court,” Gauff wrote on her social media accounts. “Tried my best to adjust with…
BOSTON (AP) — Dozens of widows and other caregivers for former NFL players diagnosed with CTE say a published study is insulting and dismissive of their experience living with the degenerative brain disease that has been linked to concussions and other repeated head trauma common in contact sports like football.An open letter signed by the players’ wives, siblings and children says the study published in the May 6 issue of Frontiers in Psychology suggests their struggles caring for loved ones was due to “media hype” about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, rather than the disease itself. The implication that “caregiver concerns are…
This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 30-year-old Shahad Ishraq, from Germany. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Reading Andy Jassy’s new memo on generative AI, I’m not surprised by anything.I worked at Amazon for nearly three and a half years and left in late May because of the 5-day RTO mandate. My commute took an hour and a half each way, so I wanted to move to another job where I could still see my career progressing and do interesting work.The memo feels consistent with what I’d been hearing from management and Jassy while…
About 5.5 million Americans live with dementia, requiring US$53 billion in annual medical spending on doctor visits, hospitalizations, medications, home health aides and nursing homes. But the true cost of dementia care in the U.S. is far higher because it relies heavily on unpaid care from family and friends.I am a researcher who studies health spending, and my colleagues and I set out to quantify the true costs of dementia care – not just to the health system, but to families and communities. After factoring in the value of unpaid care, we found that the total cost of dementia care…
It’s already been a tumultuous year for the U.S. semiconductor industry. The semiconductor industry plays a sizable role in the “AI race” that the U.S. seems determined to win, which is why this context is worth paying attention to: from Intel’s appointment of Lip-Bu Tan to CEO — who wasted no time getting to work trying to revitalize the legacy company — to Joe Biden proposing sweeping new AI chip export rules on his way out of office that never came to fruition. Here’s a look at what’s happened in the first half of 2025. June Intel appoints new leadership…