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He battled high-risk leukaemia at age 7. Now he’s a doctor helping to treat cancer patients

He battled high-risk leukaemia at age 7. Now he’s a doctor helping to treat cancer patients

Published by Sam Flores

Despite the notoriously demanding rigour of medical school, Dr Chng said his personal experience was a constant reminder not to view patients as a sum of their symptoms.  “A lot of times when we are busy, we start to think of patients by their locators, like which bed they are in, or it’s the patient with this condition. There are still times that I might fall into this (pattern).” Dr Chng has strong memories of family and family friends being very involved and rallying around him during his own battle with cancer, even donating platelets to help in his treatment.  These first-hand experiences, he said, continue to shape the way he now approaches medicine as a practitioner.  “I understand the fear of the unknown, the weight of uncertainty, and the relief that even small acts of kindness can bring.” He strives to understand why patients might feel unhappy about the treatment process and empathise with the fatigue they and their families may grapple with throughout the complex journey of recovery. “It’s not something you can …

Dolly Parton’s cause of death: Country music icon battled cancer

Dolly Parton’s cause of death: Country music icon battled cancer

Published by Sam Flores

Dolly Parton had reportedly been battling cancer before her death. A spokesperson for Parton’s estate confirmed the cause of death to the New York Times. In a statement, also shared with People, a representative for the country music icon said: “After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones.” The type of cancer was not specified. TMZ had previously reported that Parton had been hospitalized early Friday for kidney and autoimmune issues. Parton’s death at age 80 was announced earlier Tuesday by her nephew Bryan Seaver in a news release and in a video shared to the singer’s Instagram page. Tributes from entertainment luminaries, politicians and others immediately followed. An entertainer and philanthropist, Parton had previously had a series of health issues that led her to postpone several public appearances and performances. She missed the announcement of a Dollywood attraction to recover from a kidney stone in September 2025. Later that month, she delayed her residency at Caesars Palace in Las …

Prince Harry battled ‘relentless heat’ at Australian home ‘double the size of Balmoral’

Prince Harry battled ‘relentless heat’ at Australian home ‘double the size of Balmoral’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Living abroad doesn’t faze Prince Harry, with the royal setting up his home in Montecito, California with his wife, Meghan Markle, after they stepped back as senior royals in 2020. Years before his trans-Atlantic move, he temporarily relocated to Australia aged 19. Fresh out of Eton College, Harry joined his late mother Princess Diana’s close friend Annie Hill and her husband Noel on Tooloombilla farm in Queensland, where he spent nine weeks becoming a “summer jackaroo.” Opening up about his home in Australia, he admitted in his autobiography Spare that the lifestyle was the antithesis of what he had been used to in the UK – especially when it came to the “boiling Australian sun.” “I came from a green place. The Hills’ farm was an ode to brown. I came from a place where every move was monitored, catalogued, and subjected to judgment. The Hills’ farm was so vast and remote that no one would see me for most of each day but [Annie’s son] George. And the odd wallaby. “Above all, I came …

For 6 days, NASA’s Mars rover battled a rock

For 6 days, NASA’s Mars rover battled a rock

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Curiosity got itself stuck between a rock and hard place last month, but NASA says there’s no reason to fret about the intrepid Mars rover. On April 25, mission engineers were remotely piloting its robotic arm’s rotary-percussive drill into a Martian rock nicknamed Atacama. It’s a relatively routine task for Curiosity, which takes the samples and then pulverizes them into a powder for future onboard chemical analysis. But Atacama is no small stone. The hefty, 1.5-foot-wide geologic formation is about six inches thick and weighs about 28.6 pounds. So NASA engineers were understandably a bit worried when Curiosity attempted to retract its arm—and subsequently lifted the entire rock off the ground. “Drilling has fractured or separated the upper layers of rocks in the past, but a rock has never remained attached to the drill sleeve,” the agency explained in a recent rundown. While amusing to envision, the situation was no laughing matter for NASA’s engineers. The rover’s drill would …

Robert Moses and Isamu Noguchi Battled for Decades—About Playgrounds

Robert Moses and Isamu Noguchi Battled for Decades—About Playgrounds

Published by José Betancourt

In 1980, an Isamu Noguchi sculpture was abruptly removed from the lobby of the Bank of Tokyo in New York. Some customers had found the looming presence of the suspended 17-foot cube unsettling, and the bank’s leadership shared their unease; one report likened the folded aluminum structure to a guillotine. Once it was removed, Noguchi quipped to a friend, “We are out in the street where we belong.” His tongue-in-cheek remark reflected his conviction: that sculpture belonged not in bank lobbies and stuffy galleries, but out on city streets. Though widely acclaimed as a sculptor, Noguchi spent five decades working to pull sculpture off its proverbial pedestal, insisting that it be lived in—embedded in plazas, parks, and playgrounds as sites of civic interaction. He wanted his work to serve a social good, and to be enjoyed by the public rather than private collectors. An exhibition at The Noguchi Museum, aptly titled “Noguchi’s New York,” reads as an ode to this utopian vision. Related Articles Isamu Noguchi: Red Cube, 1968. Photo Miguel de Guzmán and Rocío …

Starmer and McSweeney battled to keep sleazebags out of power. Then they hired Mandelson  – POLITICO

Starmer and McSweeney battled to keep sleazebags out of power. Then they hired Mandelson  – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Fit and proper It was essential, McSweeney would tell his audiences, that the first criterion for choosing a candidate should be that they are a “fit and proper” person for the job.  In a cynical age when most voters have no automatic loyalty to parties in the way they used to, fielding credible candidates is even more critical, he argued. Trust is personified in the individual standing on the doorstep, according to McSweeney. Voters must see the Labour rosette pinned to a candidate’s lapel as a mark of quality, in his view.  McSweeney believed the Labour party Starmer inherited when he became leader in 2020 was, in places, “corrupt.” By that, he meant Labour officials behaved as if the party were a sort of “private club,” designed to serve its members and their interests, rather than the country.  Mandelson’s membership of Epstein’s club of the super rich and powerful now threatens to wreck Starmer and McSweeney’s careers, alongside their mission to restore voters’ trust in politics. For outraged Labour MPs, the suspicion now is that …