Replenishment of Sea Isle City beaches is ongoing. Beaches from 83rd to 94th street should be completed within the next week, after which beach-fill will be placed from 83rd to 73rd street. Following work at the south end, beach-filling operations will move downtown, where replenishment will take place between about 29th and 53rd streets. Based . Read more
Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically implanted.Surgeons at NYU Langone Health, in New York City, performed the operation in two steps, the first being the implantation of the heart pump. The second took place days later, with the transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney and the pig s thymus gland which makes white blood cells to help the immune system fight disease to help prevent rejection.The patient is 54-year-old Lisa Pisano, from New Jersey, who was facing heart failure and end-stage kidney disease, NYU Langone said Wednesday. Due to several chronic conditions, including being on dialysis, she was not a candidate for a heart transplant or a kidney transplant, the hospital said.Additionally, Pisano has high levels of antibodies harmful to human tissue that would m
Craig Hastings/Getty Images(NEW YORK) As the surge of summer travel draws near, the race to book a great vacation is on."If you re looking to travel domestically within the U.S., I think you should be booking now for summer travel," Clint Henderson, travel expert and managing editor of The Points Guy, told ABC News Good Morning America.Earlier this month while reporting quarterly earnings, Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian projected "record advance bookings for the summer," telling CNBC that the carrier s credit card data and bookings show customers are highly interested in air travel.An increase in budget airline routes that has created more competition, paired with an easing of the post-pandemic revenge travel surge, means travelers could see more deals."Overall prices are down from where they were when we just had that boom out of the pandemic," Henderson said. "So things are more reasonable."Hopper, the flight booking app, has shown predicted
Bryan Koberger listens during a hearing to overturn his grand jury indictment on Oct. 26, 2023 in Moscow, Idaho. (Kai Eiselein-Pool/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) Lawyers for Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of stabbing to death four Idaho college students in 2022, can continue their survey of prospective jurors in the state, the judge overseeing his case has ruled.Kohberger s lawyers had hired a consultant to conduct community phone polling ahead of his upcoming capital murder trial in order to gauge the attitude and potential bias of people who could one day decide his fate.That survey which had become a source of pretrial contention can now proceed without changing any of the questions, including the nine with which prosecutors have taken issue."The defense may continue its surveys without modification to the survey questions," Judge John Judge, overseeing the case, said in his order filed Friday and posted to the docket Monday afternoon.Judge had put the so-called non-diss