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In 2021, Craig Gibbons was diagnosed with Lyme disease. His doctor prescribed antibiotics, but the medication failed to eliminate one of his most debilitating symptoms: a long-lasting brain fog that made it difficult for him to concentrate or remember information.So he opted for a different approach: at-home brain stimulation.For the past several years, Gibbons had been experimenting with transcranial direct current stimulationor tDCS, which sends weak electrical currents to the brain through electrodes attached to the head.Brain stimulation comes in many different forms, but they all center around the same idea: sending little zaps to specific parts of the brain…

A man has been arrested in connection with an incident at a high school girls' basketball game in Corona, California, where he allegedly punched several athletes and brandished a firearm. During a game between the Centennial High School Huskies and the Santiago High School Sharks on January 24, players began shoving each other after a scrum for the ball led to a foul. Then, police say, a man came down from the stands and punched several of the athletes on the court. The man injured three girls, ages 16 and 17, and the game was later suspended in the fourth…

Educator and community activist Ted Victor was outraged when he learned that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had decided that an advanced placement course in African-American studies his daughter planned to take was "significantly lacking in educational value."“Without educational value, like something you can throw away, something you can just throw away, something that says you're not as important as other people,” said Victor, who is Afro-Latino and has taught middle and high school for 25 years. level and university.The son of a Cuban father and a Haitian mother, Victor was born in the Dominican Republic and raised there, in Brazil…

In the long-running legal battle over allegations that the talc in Johnson & Johnson's baby powder is linked to ovarian cancer, the plaintiffs won a gradual victory Monday: A federal appeals court rejected J&J's effort to bring more than 38,000 claims to a bankruptcy court.Plaintiff Deborah Smith's case was delayed for 15 months due to the attempted maneuvering, a legal strategy known colloquially as the Texas Two-Step. J&J's approach was based on creating a subsidiary called LTL Management that could take responsibility for talc-related legal claims. Within days of its creation in 2021, LTL filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.At that…