Read on to learn how to talk to family and friends about your MS. Pros and Cons of Telling People About MS Whom you tell about having MS is a personal decision, and no one should be pressured to disclose their diagnosis before they are ready. It can help to weigh the pros and cons of telling people about MS. Pros Talking to others can help you create a support network for yourself and your family....

RA is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system malfunctions and starts to attack healthy tissues, mainly the synovium, the lining of the joints. The most common symptoms of RA are pain, stiffness, and swelling in the joints. The smaller joints of the hands and feet are typically the most affected by RA, but RA can also affect large joints, including the knees, hips, and shoulders. Additional symptoms of RA are fatigue, low-grade fevers, and rheumatoid nodules, which are benign (noncancerous) lumps under the skin near the joints....

While a jersey finger can occur in non-athletic activities, it is most commonly seen in full-contact sports. Symptoms A jersey finger is an injury to the flexor tendon. This is the tendon that pulls the fingers toward the palm as the flexor muscles of the forearm are contracted. The injury starts at the tip of the finger and causes the tendon to snap back (almost like a rubber band) to the base of the finger or even the palm of the hand....

Among those stars were Empress of Soul Gladys Knight chart legend Dionne Warwick, which led to a bit of an awkward mixup on the ESPN broadcast of the match. Mary Carillo and Chanda Rubin, who were calling the match, were calling out some of the stars in attendance, and as the camera came onto Warwick, they enthusiastically – and seemingly wrongly – exclaimed it was Knight. “Gladys Knight!” Carillo said when Rubin pointed out there were more stars in play....

Answer by Stephanie Vardavas, Worked at Nike 1997-2011 I’m biased but from many years of close observation I believe that Nike sports marketing decisions are almost always very smart. As a technical matter I should observe that we don’t know that Nike did end up matching the Under Armour offer. We know that Nike had to express a willingness to do so, but it’s very likely that Nike introduced other variables into the negotiation, which Durant would have agreed to, and ended up with a somewhat different deal....

The princess was known, for example, to be interested in astrology, hypnotherapy, aromatherapy and spirituality. Her mystic side has sparked interest following a reference in Season 5 of Netflix’s royal drama, The Crown. Newsweek has taken a look at Princess Diana’s relationship with astrology and the people she turned to for mystic guidance. Did Princess Diana Have an Astrologer? Princess Diana was extremely interested in astrology and horoscopes, turning to a number of experts over the years to draw up her charts and interpret planetary movements....

The most recent rumor, posted by the General SVR’s Telegram channel, alleges after a difficult day of leadership earlier this week, Putin fell down five steps on a staircase and landed on his coccyx, or tailbone. The jarring fall caused the Russian leader to then “defecate involuntarily,” according to the Telegram channel. In an email, Putin’s press office told Newsweek that none of General SVR’s claims were true. General SVR has repeatedly touted claims that Putin is sick, with many media outlets citing its Telegram channel as people worldwide look for proof that Putin’s leadership is cracking....

During the Rams-Cardinals game Monday, Peyton and Eli Manning noticed a dinosaur skull behind the man otherwise known as Dwayne Johnson. The head named “Stan” had an interesting story behind it. “As a matter of fact, so Stan was the most complete T-Rex skull ever found by a paleontologist, a young paleontologist and his name was Stan. So, this T. Rex head was named after him,” The Rock said, via The New York Post....

The pair are international team-mates with Brazil and share a close friendship. Tite: Coutinho perfect for Barca With both currently enjoying a well-earned summer break, they have taken the opportunity to catch up – with Coutinho’s Anfield colleague Roberto Firmino tagging along. It remains to be seen whether they will ever work together at club level, but they clearly enjoy each other’s company. Neymar has talked up a possible move to Camp Nou for Coutinho in the past....

While it’s a recreation of events with A-list stars like Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell and Joel Egerton taking on the leading roles of real-life divers Rick Stanton, John Volanthen and Harry Harris, a lot of what viewers see on screen is real. The actors and director Ron Howard spoke about their experiences making the film in a press conference, including the drama’s diving sequences. Did the Stars Really Dive in the Movie?...

Now, thanks to “Agatha Christie and Archaeology: Murder in Mesopotamia,” an engaging new exhibit at the British Museum (through March 24), visitors can grasp the full impact that Christie’s personal adventures had on her work. Her grandson, Mathew Prichard, who wrote the catalog’s foreword, says that Christie first visited Baghdad in 1929 to escape “from quite an unhappy period in her life.” (Her husband had just left her for another woman....

In the apartment next door, however, Fatma Asala doesn’t share Luria’s enthusiasm for archeology. The 33-year-old Muslim schoolteacher points to a web of cracks in her bedroom ceiling and complains that the rumble of the compressors next door shakes the whole house. Sometimes, she insists, it sounds as if the clang and whirr of the power tools is coming from directly beneath her floor. Occasionally she wakes up and finds her face covered with a thin layer of concrete dust and flecks of white paint that have fallen from her ceiling....

The fingers are also called digits, and sclerosis refers to the process of stiffening and hardening of the body’s tissue from inflammatory conditions. Digital sclerosis occurs when the skin of the fingers become tight and thickened, changing the appearance of the fingers and limiting finger movement. Symptoms Digital sclerosis that occurs in people with diabetes is characterized by thickened and tightened skin of the fingers that is waxy in appearance....

Whyte dominated the opening four rounds, only to be downed in the fifth by a stunning uppercut from the 40-year-old Russian. He had knocked down Povetkin twice in the fourth round at Matchroom Boxing’s Fight Camp in Brentford, England. Had Whyte defeated Povetkin, he would have been entitled to a fight with Tyson Fury. Instead, Whyte was left to congratulate his opponent as his hopes of a title bout faded....

The president was expressing an attitude that is a commonplace among the New York liberal elite, and has a certain amount of truth to it. Race was the central issue the last time David Dinkins ran against Rudy Giuliani for mayor. Giuliani, a former tough-guy federal prosecutor, was an awful candidate, offering the public little more than pigment and an attitude -and yet he nearly beat Dinkins, who seemed, at the time, a healing presence in a city tired of conflict....

In his interview, published Dec. 1, Assad begged the United States to resume Syrian-Israeli negotiations, which broke down in 2000 several weeks before the death of Bashar’s father, President Hafez Assad. Describing what Israel would get in return, Bashar pledged normalization, “like the relations between Syria and the United States.” Bashar did not suddenly fall in love with Israel. He had a more obvious motive: fending off American pressure. The list of American grievances is long–from assisting Saddam Hussein to aiding postwar terrorism in Iraq, not to mention its long support of Palestinian terrorist groups and the Lebanese Hizbullah....

The two officials, Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review, will leave the administration in October and her deputy director Phil Krause will follow in November, the FDA shared in a statement shared by CNBC. Endpoints News, a biotech industry new site, reported that a former senior FDA leader said the duo were frustrated that the CDC and Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) were involved in making decisions they felt should be up to the FDA....

Discoid lupus is an autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks the skin. If you have discoid lupus, you may develop chronic inflammatory sores on your face, ears, scalp, and other areas of the body. These lesions can be crusty and scaling, and they often scar. If lesions and scarring are on your scalp, hair regrowth may be impossible in those areas. Discoid lupus is thought to result from a combination of genetic factors, environmental factors—especially sun exposure—and hormonal factors....

Entertainment industry leaders such as the Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, Universal and Disney have all begun implementing changes to help keep their guests and staff members safe from COVID-19 exposure. The Six Flags Entertainment Corporation announced an extensive list of upgrades and policies in a press release on Tuesday that includes an online reservation system to purchase tickets and enter the parks, social distancing practices such as face masks and thermal body temperature scanning....