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68, was returned earlier this year as part of a ceasefire.For Dancyg, Billie’s return gives her some sense of closure. Yet she said it is bittersweet knowing there are hostages still in Gaza.
“I can’t get out of this trauma as long as they are there,” she said.More than a dozen years after higher-fat milk was stripped from school meals toand boost their health, momentum is growing to put it back.
Federal lawmakers have revived bills that would allow whole and 2% milk to be served again in schools, in addition to the skim and low-fat milk mandated since 2012. A U.S. Senate committeeTuesday on a bill that has bipartisan support.
“Kids need wholesome, nourishing food to grow strong and stay healthy, and whole milk is packed with the nutrients they need,” said Sen. John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat who is co-sponsoring the legislation.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called the federal dietary guidelines requiringMass General transplant nephrologist Dr. Leonardo Riella said Andrews was weak and struggling with diabetes, including a slow-healing diabetic foot ulcer that hindered walking. He’d have to get more fit to be a candidate.
Andrews started physical therapy and returned six months later about 30 pounds lighter and “running down the hallway almost,” Riella recalled. “He was just, you know, a different person,” so they started checking if he’d qualify for the pilot study.One big question was cardiac fitness: Mass General’s
had underlying heart disease that killed him. But Riella said intense exams showed Andrews’ “heart was in the best shape possible.”Still, Andrews was a little nervous and sought advice from the only other person who knew what a pig kidney transplant was like — the NYU patient, Towana Looney.