Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

A successful alumnus of St. Joseph's Prep in Philadelphia has donated a record-breaking amount of money to the school that will help fund scholarships and a "total transformation" of the campus. The ...

Pyometra is a bacterial infection in your cat's uterus. It's a potentially fatal infection that requires urgent medical treatment. The uterus of cats who have pyometra is filled with pus. Pyometra can ...

Colonoscopy prep, which involves drinking a liquid that helps evacuate your bowels, gives your doctor the best possible view of your colon during colorectal cancer screenings. But the process has long ...

Aside from pregnancy prevention, one of the main reasons veterinarians urge dog owners to have their female puppies spayed is that doing so will preemptively mitigate life-threatening reproductive ...

Bing Liu’s film is an unflinching portrait of an undocumented Uyghur immigrant and a traumatised US veteran whose fragile connection is strained by their pasts Chinese-American film-maker Bing Liu ...

A young immigrant woman falls for a troubled U.S. soldier in this sensitive and sweetly melancholic drama. Sebiye Behtiyar, left, with Fred Hechinger in “Preparation for the Next Life.” By Jeannette ...

Bing Liu makes his fiction debut with a superbly acted drama chronicling the unstable relationship between an undocumented woman and a U.S. Army vet with mental health issues. The spark between two ...

Most pet owners think of spaying their female pets to avoid unwanted litters and behaviors. But there’s another, much more urgent reason to spay your dog or cat — to protect her from a potentially ...

Exclusive: The Oscar-nominated docmaker follows in the footsteps of RaMell Ross: Adapting a novel as his first narrative feature for Plan B, Orion Pictures, and Amazon/MGM Studios. With a screenplay ...

University of Illinois veterinary student Hannah Vander Ploeg (left) examining a female dog with Dr. Alyssa Baratta-Martin. University of Illinois veterinary student Hannah Vander Ploeg (left) ...

During my two decades in medical device sales, I witnessed a stark reality that fundamentally changed my perspective on human behavior. Day after day, I observed patients receiving treatments for ...