Cancer patient challenges AstraZeneca for a chance at life — and wins
NY Post
Stage-four cancer patient Becca Cahill just wanted a last fighting chance at survival. Now, the 35-year-old is finally getting one — thanks to her brave persistence and an online petition with more than 100,000 signatures.
Cahill, who lives in Davis, Calif., near Sacramento, was first diagnosed with late-stage endometrial cancer in May 2017. It was just three weeks before her wedding, and she’d only experienced relatively mild symptoms such as nausea and an upset stomach. But a barrage of tests delivered shocking results. “I asked the oncologist for my prognosis,” Cahill recalled. “She knew we lived far from our relatives and said: ‘If I were you, I would go be with your family.’”
Cynthia Marie Franco was finally able to catch her breath as she frantically ran into her private spa studio in the Hollywood Hills, after finishing a lengthy facial at a top actor’s home, which backed up her tight schedule.
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The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.