“LLS helped me get through that,” says Liam. “LLS is amazing. They work hard to help kids beat cancer.”
Liam is amazing, too, which is why he was named the LLS Boy of the Year for 2021. He has the Instagram account to prove it, where he shows off a billion-megawatt smile. If you have a Boy of the Year you need an Adult of the Year.
That’s where hockey comes in.
“If we’ve learned anything in the last 12 to 15 months it’s the power of community and bringing people together and really using people’s different connections and networks to help people like Liam here, and families that going through a tough time, out,” says Derek Dawson, Manager of Corporate Partnerships for the San Diego Gulls.
Gina Babauta suffers from a rare neuromuscular disorder called Myasthenia Gravis. On Saturday, she admitted herself for her usual treatment at Scripps La Jolla. Everything seemed pretty normal up until around dinner time. She waited over 40 minutes on the phone to place an order with the cafeteria. “They answered and they said, ‘We can’t help you, we aren’t.
/PRNewswire/ Global Institute of Stem Cell Therapy and Research (GIOSTAR), the pioneer in the field of stem cell science and regenerative medicine, was.
• The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library concludes its
“On Broadway! A Salute to the Broadway Musical” lecture series at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 6, online, with Jacqueline Silver discussing Broadway’s newer shows, such as “The Lion King” and “Hamilton.” $17 per lecture for members; $22 for non-members.
• Bach Collegium San Diego concludes its 2020-21 virtual season with
“Bach and His Rivals The Leipzig Audition” at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 8. The program will highlight three compositions from 1722, along with a talk led by Michale Maul. $25.
• The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presents a discussion with artist
Felipe Baeza at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 13, and 10:45 a.m. Friday, May 14, online. The event is part of MCASD’s “Experiments on Stone: Four Women Artists from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop.” Free.
As the numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths in India continue to mount, Time magazine now describes how public health officials are carefully watching yet another looming threat: the appearance of mutations that could be making the virus circulating there more infectious or more capable of causing severe disease.
Scientists believe that the variants of SARS-CoV-2 responsible for this second wave of cases in India already include at least two mutations that make them more dangerous. These mutations are already familiar to COVID-19 experts. One is found in a variant first identified in South Africa, while the other is part of a variant believed to have emerged from California. Researchers believe that these two mutations may, respectively, make it easier for the virus to infect human cells, and to evade the protection provided by immune cells like antibodies. According to the latest data from the public genome database GISAID, 38% of genetically sequenced samples from India collected