Mes: agosto 2019

Osteoporosis is a disease that, over time, weakens the bones, making them more likely to break. Actress Blythe Danner — Gwyneth Paltrow’s mother — was recently diagnosed with postmenopausal osteoporosis. CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton sat down with the Hollywood veteran to talk about the diagnosis and how it has changed her life. For the actress, activist, mother, and grandmother, slowing down is not an option. A bone fracture can be a life changing event, as Danner learned. More on Blythe’s osteoporosis awareness campaign “When I heard the statistics that one-in-two women over the age of 50 will have a fracture related to osteoporosis, I really sat up and said, ‘This is horrific. This is more than nine million women,”‘ Danner said. Ashton said, “OK, so go back to 2009 when you broke your foot. When someone is as active and busy as you are, working woman, grandmother, and all of a sudden, you have an injury. What was that like for you?” “Terrifying,” Danner said. “I’ve been really proud of my independence.” Nearly 10 years ago, Danner’s husband of 33 years, director Bruce Paltrow lost his battle with oral cancer. Danner said, “My husband was really the heart and strength of my family, he was extraordinary,and I really had to learn how to do it all on my own. But I thought, ‘How am I going...

(CBS/AP) MADRID – The lawyers for an elderly Spanish woman who made global headlines when she botched the restoration of a fresco of Jesus Christ say she has no interest in a cut of the tourism windfall her work has brought her northeastern Spanish town. But the attorneys are gearing up to put a stop to potential copyright violations of what she created – even though she had not set out to create anything at all. “We want to put some order to this anarchy,” said Antonio Val Carreras Rivera, one of her lawyers. “You do this little by little under legality, and our job is to coordinate to prevent third parties from profiting. We are at the beginning now, we can’t say if she has rights.” The church fresco in the town of Borja was for decades a little-known piece of religious art by a minor Spanish artist. Following the disastrous touch-up, revealed in August, it has found a new fate as a global icon – used to sell products around the world. The fresco depicts Christ with a crown of thorns before crucifixion, in a style style known as “Ecce Homo” (Behold the Man). It stood in peaceful obscurity in the Misericordia Sanctuary since its creation in 1930 – until Gimenez, a longtime devotee of the work, decided it needed to be rescued from flaking caused by...

(AP) MOSCOW – Vera Lesovets held up photographs of her dog, Yasha, a spunky 5-year-old corgi, nipping playfully at the heels of a German shepherd twice her size. But Yasha’s life was cut short this week: After snacking on something in a Moscow park, she fell into a seizure at Lesovets’ apartment and began foaming at the mouth. The family rushed her to a nearby animal clinic, where the veterinarian said this was the sixth case he had seen that week, and there was nothing he could do. On Friday police opened a criminal investigation into what they suspect are poisonings by dog killers. Cruelty to animals is common in Russia and animal protection laws are rarely enforced, but reports of as many as 70 dead dogs this week have spurred the police to take action. While some residents suspected that a vigilante matriarch, wary of her children being bitten, might be the cause of the attacks, Lesovets was quick to suspect a more malicious culprit: dog hunters, a kind of deadly hobby gaining ground in the Russian online community. Dog hunting forums — the most well-known of which are Vreditelyam.net and Pest.net — are populated by those who call themselves “volunteers” and provide graphic photos of their trophy killings. The sites require extensive registration and identification processes for participants. “It’s a whole community. They have websites,” said Lesovets,...