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Washington Post
7 days ago
- Health
- Washington Post
Son needs more support at school after missing 4 months for cancer treatment
Dear Meghan: My child was diagnosed with cancer in January 2022, when he was in eighth grade. Up until then, he was an independent and high-achieving student. He underwent six months of chemotherapy and seven surgeries. It was a hard time for our whole family. He was unable to return to school after his diagnosis, so he missed four months of eighth grade, including algebra 1 and Spanish 1.
Medscape
27-05-2025
- Health
- Medscape
Food Ladders Safe for High-Risk Children With Food Allergies
TOPLINE: New research showed that the five-step cow's milk ladder and the four-step egg ladder were safe and effective methods of reintroducing milk and egg in high-risk children with immunoglobulin E (IgE)–mediated cow's milk allergy (CMA) and/or hen's egg allergy (HEA). METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a closely monitored study between January 2022 and August 2024 and recruited 29 high-risk children with IgE-mediated CMA and/or HEA (mean age, 36.14 months; 62% boys). IgE-mediated food allergy was confirmed by positive results for milk and/or egg on either an oral food challenge (OFC), a milk-/egg-specific IgE test, and/or a skin prick test. To see if children develop tolerance to baked counterparts of the raw allergen, researchers introduced baked milk or egg in the form of muffins during OFCs in hospital settings. Subsequent steps of the food ladders were carried out at home in most cases, using gradual reintroduction of more allergic forms. The primary outcome was the number of children having a negative result on an OFC, with successful tolerance of 120-240 mL of raw pasteurized or modified cow's milk or one soft-boiled or lightly scrambled egg. TAKEAWAY: Overall, 33% of the evaluated children developed tolerance to unheated cow's milk within 6-34 months after the first OFC — with 80% developing tolerance within 18 months — while 13% developed tolerance to soft-boiled or lightly scrambled egg 11-17 months after the first OFC. Inconsistent reintroduction led to loss of tolerance in two cases. Parental concerns led to temporary withdrawal in one case, but tolerance was reconfirmed. None of the children developed an anaphylactic reaction during the OFC in hospital settings. IN PRACTICE: 'We suggest that regular monitoring of these children is essential to avoid prolonging the break period between…the steps of the food ladder and to monitor the regular daily introduction of tolerated forms of milk/egg,' the authors wrote. SOURCE: Agata Stróżyk, PhD, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, was the corresponding author of the study, which was published online on May 22 in Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. LIMITATIONS: This study was retrospective in nature, had a small sample size, lacked established regular follow-up periods, and included children with a wide age range. DISCLOSURES: This study was fully funded by the Medical University of Warsaw. One author reported being a clinical investigator, an advisory board member, and a speaker for several pharmaceutical companies. Another author reported being a clinical investigator and a speaker for Nestle and receiving research support from Nutricia. This article was created using several editorial tools, including AI, as part of the process. Human editors reviewed this content before publication.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Yahoo
Karen Read trial reveals flirty text messages with ATF agent behind boyfriend's back
Legal experts are handing Karen Read's defense team the win for Friday's heated cross-examination of Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik – who returned for his second day on the stand as prosecutors look to convince the jury that Read fatally struck her boyfriend, Boston cop John O'Keefe, and left him to die in a blizzard in January 2022. During hours of cross-examination from defense attorney Alan Jackson, the homicide investigator was asked to read a long string of text messages exchanged between Read and Brian Higgins, a Canton-based ATF agent with whom she was flirting behind O'Keefe's back. Having Bukhenik read the texts allows the defense to introduce hearsay statements into the case, according to Grace Edwards, a Massachusetts defense attorney who is following the case closely. They also raise questions about the integrity of the investigation, something the defense has aimed to discredit entirely. State Trooper Points To Possible Weapon In John O'keefe Death – And It's Not Karen Read's Car "They are being entered not for the truth of what is contained in them but to show that they existed," she told Fox News Digital. "That is important because the defense wants to be able to argue that these messages existed, and did or did not the investigation consider them as a lead? Wouldn't the knowledge of a romantic flirtation between Karen Read and Brian Higgins create the possibility of conflict between Brian Higgins and John O'Keefe?" She said that both sides performed well Friday and credited Hank Brennan, the special prosecutor brought in to handle Read's retrial, with devising a new strategy after the first trial ended in a mistrial. But she said the defense won out slightly. Read On The Fox News App "Great lawyering on both sides today. Hank Brennan's new trial strategy indicates he won't need to call upon Brian Albert or Brian Higgins or Michael Proctor," she said. "They have stretched the witness to the max the last few days. Alan Jackson appears to have worn the witness down and there was damaging testimony regarding the handling of evidence. Overall, I felt the defense achieved more of their goals today." Karen Read's Google Timeline Derailed Again As 2Nd Expert Disputes Defense Claims Sgt. Bukhenik spent hours on the stand Friday, reading through flirty text messages between Read and Brian Higgins, an ATF agent and potential love interest whom she contacted behind O'Keefe's back. The Ukraine native, who immigrated to the U.S. when he was nine and joined the Marine Corps after 9/11, often sparred with Jackson about semantics, asking for a copy of Webster's Dictionary at one point, telling the court that English was his "third language." Frequent objections from the special prosecutor, Hank Brennan, also interrupted the proceedings as Judge Beverly Cannone repeatedly called the sides to the bench for off-camera discussions. At one point, Jackson replayed video shown earlier of Read backing out of O'Keefe's garage the morning he was found dead. The defense clip included a layover of a box with a zoomed-in view of O'Keefe's vehicle, which was parked outside. It appeared to bounce in place as Read neared it with her rear bumper – the same one later found with a broken taillight. "The prosecution looks like it's trying to hide the truth with all objections," said Linda Kenney Baden, a prominent East Coast defense attorney who is closely following the case on her "Justice Served" podcast. KAREN READ TRIAL: CANTON COP EXPLAINS USING LEAF BLOWER, RED SOLO CUPS, STOP & SHOP BAG FOR EVIDENCE Another damning moment, she said, was when Bukhenik admitted that no pieces of Read's broken taillight were recovered until after her vehicle - the alleged murder weapon – was parked inside the sallyport at Canton Police Headquarters. But she said it was Bukhenik's responses to Jackson that may have turned off jurors – calling the day a win for the defense. In the texts, Read, now 45, discussed her relationship struggles, repeatedly mentioning that she was not married and referred to herself as "single" despite, as Higgins wrote, having a "live in boyfriend." They discussed finding each other "hot," a kiss they shared outside O'Keefe's house, heavy drinking and danced around laying out their intentions for one another. Karen Read's Google Timeline Derailed Again As 2Nd Expert Disputes Defense Claims "Are you breaking up or staying together?" Higgins asked at one point, about Read and O'Keefe. "I don't know," Read replied. "He hooked up with another girl on vacation. I am very close to his niece. It's a very f----- up situation." Higgins repeatedly asked Read for clarity about her intentions, although they both said they found each other attractive and traded invites to one another's homes. "Ok, so he is cool with you dating other people?" Higgins asked in another exchange. "I doubt it," Read wrote. "If he is seeing someone else I wouldn't want to know either way. He probably feels the same. And you probably feel that way about whoever you hook up with. I think that's normal." Higgins was present at the Waterfall Bar and Grille with Read, O'Keefe and others before the whole group went to the nearby home of Brian Albert, a fellow Boston police officer who is also close friends with Higgins. Read has claimed she dropped O'Keefe off, saw him go inside and left. Prosecutors allege that she hit him with the rear end of the Lexus SUV and left him to die on the ground. Read had pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, manslaughter and fleeing the scene. Her defense denied that a collision happened at all and insists his fatal injuries were inflicted in some other way - possibly a "fight" with one or more people at the after-party. Read's first trial, in which she claimed she was being framed by a group of law enforcement with ties to Albert and his family, ended with a deadlocked jury and a mistrial. Special prosecutor Hank Brennan, a prominent Massachusetts defense attorney who previously represented Whitey Bulger, was brought in to take over the reins from Assistant Norfolk County District Attorney Adam Lally, who is still part of the prosecution team. While Read has said that whether she will testify in her own defense remains "to be determined," Brennan sought and obtained video interviews that Read had given to various TV outlets and documentarians and has been playing clips in court for the jury. Karen Read's Google Timeline Derailed Again As 2Nd Expert Disputes Defense Claims In the texts, Higgins told Read he wasn't interested in "drama" but continued the two-way flirting until she sent a chilling text to him around noon on Jan. 29, 2022. "John died," she wrote. Just hours earlier, while she was out drinking with O'Keefe about an hour before the end of his life, Higgins sent two texts to her that went unanswered around 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 28, 2022. Lawyers for both parties also agreed in court that at 12:20 a.m. the following morning, Higgins also texted O'Keefe. "You coming here???" Earlier, Jackson also grilled Bukhenik over how evidence was handled in the case. Bukhenik testified that no taillight fragments had been recovered until after Read's SUV was in state police custody. He couldn't say which officer had filled out an evidence bag under his name and didn't remember whom he had given the unsigned evidence to. Jackson asked him whether he was aware that more than a dozen reports in the case weren't written until more than 100 days after the events that they were supposed to "memorialize" had taken place. He said he was not. GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE True Crime Hub Police witnesses may be hurting the case due to missteps that shouldn't have happened had routine protocols been followed, according to Joseph Giacalone, a former NYPD cold case investigator and an adjunct crminal justice professor at Penn State Lehigh Valley. "A tie goes to the defense," he said of Friday's testimony. "The Massachusetts State Police have a major problem on their hands." The MSP fired former Trooper Michael Proctor, who was a lead investigator in the case, after his testimony during the first trial revealed unprofessional text messages he had sent regarding Read. He could testify when the defense presents its case later in the trial. Follow The Fox True Crime Team On X Local police also testified that they used red Solo cups and a grocery bag to collect evidence, removed snow with a leafblower and continued to be involved on the outskirts of the case despite a conflict of interest – one of their detectives is Brian Albert's brother. "The prosecution is going to go home this weekend and reevaluate things, because this week couldn't have been worse," said David Gelman, a former prosecutor and Philadelphia-area defense attorney who is following the case. He previously told Fox News Digital he was surprised the commonwealth even moved forward with a new trial after the first case fell apart. On the other hand, digital evidence has not supported defense claims. Two experts have testified that Albert's sister-in-law, Jennifer McCabe, made a key Google search about hypothermia shortly after Read and two other women found O'Keefe unresponsive in the snow – not hours earlier, before anyone should have known he was dead, as the defense has claimed. And reading the texts in court could be a "double-edged sword," said Paul Mauro, a former NYPD inspector. Did Higgins have a reason to get into an altercation with O'Keefe? Or do they paint Read as manipulative and untruthful?Original article source: Karen Read trial reveals flirty text messages with ATF agent behind boyfriend's back
Fox News
09-05-2025
- Fox News
Karen Read defense grills Michael Proctor's police partner in second day of cross-examination
incoming update… Karen Read's trial is set to enter Day 13 as former investigator Michael Proctor's police partner, Yuri Bukhenik, returns to the stand for cross-examination. On Thursday, prosecutor Hank Brennan looked to further solidify the state's timeline of events leading up to and directly after John O'Keefe's death outside 34 Fairview on Jan. 29, 2022. Testimony concluded for the day with defense attorney Alan Jackson grilling Bukhenik on his investigation with Proctor in an attempt to poke holes in the state's version of events. Read is on trial for allegedly striking O'Keefe with her vehicle in a drunken argument and leaving him to die in a blizzard. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Live Coverage begins here
The Sun
07-05-2025
- The Sun
Karen Read's angry texts and voicemails to boyfriend as he lay dying are read at murder trial as she raged ‘I hate you!'
KAREN Read told her cop boyfriend she 'hated' him in a barrage of expletive-riddled voicemails as he lay dying in the snow, a court has heard. The accused killer, 45, called John O'Keefe, 46, over 50 times in the hours before he was discovered in freezing temperatures. 8 8 8 8 The jury in Read's second murder case on Tuesday heard multiple angry voicemails she left for her Boston police officer boyfriend in the hours before before his battered body was pulled from an icy Massachusetts driveway. Prosecutors have alleged that Read backed her SUV into O'Keefe and left him to die after dropping him off at a party hosted by a fellow cop. Her lawyers have said she was framed in a police conspiracy, and that someone inside the home that night in January 2022 must have killed him. Prosecutors called State Police Trooper Nicholas Guarino, who confirmed that he had retrieved cellphone data from O'Keefe's phone. He detailed how the data showed Read called O'Keefe 52 times - without a pickup - early on the morning of January 29, 2022. She also left him eight voicemails. On the tenth day of her new murder trial, the court was shown the call and text message log on a Power Point presentation. There were four unanswered phone calls from the defendant to O'Keefe between 12:33:35am and 12:35:09am. A further three unanswered phone calls were made between 12:35:35am and 12:36:40am, with the eighth phone call ending in a voicemail left for O'Keefe at 12:37:08am. In this first voicemail, Read can be heard yelling 'John I f**king hate you.' There were a further four unanswered calls to his phone, until 12:40:43am. At 12:41:35am - her 13th call - a second voicemail was left for the cop. However, the court was told that it appeared to be an 'accidental butt dial' as there were just a series of loud beeps heard. Read then texted him, saying 'I'm going home' at 12:55:31am. She followed that up with a further text saying, 'See u later' at 12:55:50am. After two more unanswered calls to his phone, the 16th call, at 12:59:24am resulted in a third voicemail from her. 8 8 She said, 'John I'm here with your f**king kids, nobody knows where the f**k you are, you f**king pervert.' A 17th call was also unanswered, while the 18th phone call to O'Keefe resulted in a fourth voicemail. A text sent at 1:02:00 read, 'Your kids are kucking [sic] ALONE.' Seconds later, another text said, 'Im back in Mansfield. The kids are home alone.' At 01:10:17am, Read left her fifth voicemail, saying, 'Yeah, it's one in the morning… f**k you you f**king pervert. You're a f**king pervert.' More calls were made until a sixth voicemail was left at 01:17:37am, in which she said, 'John, I'm going home… I need to go home, you are f**king using me right now, you are f**king another girl, you're a f**king loser… f**k yourself." A timeline of Karen Read's case Karen Read, the Mansfield woman accused of fatally striking her cop boyfriend with her SUV in January 2022, is currently undergoing a second murder trial. A judge declared a mistrial on July 1, 2024, after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict after five days of deliberation. January 29, 2022: O'Keefe's body is found outside of a friend's home. February 1, 2022: Read was arrested and charged with manslaughter, motor vehicle homicide, and leaving the scene of a vehicle homicide. February 2, 2022: Read pleads not guilty in Stoughton District Court. June 9, 2022: A state grand jury indicts Read on upgraded charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter, and leaving the scene. April 12, 2023: Read's attorneys publicly release court documents they say contain "bombshell exculpatory information," including Jennifer McCabe's Google search. Nov. 20, 2023: Residents of the divided community vote 903-800 to audit the Canton Police Department over the case. May 23, 2023: During another pre-trial hearing, the defense says that the murder of John O'Keefe is a massive cover-up involving members of law enforcement and their friends and family members. Feb. 22, 2024: Prosecutors unveil long-awaited results of crime scene evidence tests, alleging that O'Keefe's DNA was recovered from the broken taillight of Read's vehicle. April 12, 2024: Read's defense attorneys say in court that Brian Albert, his son Colin Albert, and Brian Higgins could have each killed O'Keefe at the party that night. April 16, 2024: Read's trial began in Massachusetts Superior Court. May 17, 2024: Jennifer McCabe, who was with Read when she discovered O'Keefe's body, testifies that during their search, Read repeatedly said: "Did I hit him? Could I have hit him?" She also says Read later said when emergency workers were on the scene: "I hit him." June 3, 2024: The defense accuses police of planting the shattered fragments of taillight from Read's car at the scene of the crime. June 24, 2024: The defense rests their case. July 1, 2024: A judge declared a hung jury after five days of deliberation. April 22, 2025: Read's second murder trial begins. Read also left several profanity-laced emails. These included one in which she accused O'Keefe of sleeping with someone else and leaving his two adopted children home alone. The calls from Read resumed several hours later, with most not connecting. But one voicemail just after 6 a.m. sounded like it came from the scene and included a muffled voice, apparently Read's, screaming and sounding distraught. SHOE FOUND Also on Tuesday, Canton Police Lt. Charles Rae testified police officers searched the site on the afternoon of January 29, 2022. The court was told that they found a shoe along the curb - O'Keefe was missing a shoe when he was found. They also found six or seven pieces of a broken taillight. The pieces were red and clear, the jury was told, with prosecutors showing the court images of them. The search was suspended that day because of darkness. EVIDENCE IN CUP Earlier yesterday, former Canton Police Lt. Paul Gallagher finished his testimony. Gallagher was asked about evidence-gathering at the scene. In the first trial, he had testified about the use of red Solo cups to gather O'Keefe's blood, and a leaf blower to clear snow. He agreed this time that a plastic cup was not normally used to collect evidence. But he maintained the circumstances required quick thinking and improvisation. 'If we didn't collect that biological matter, we weren't going to get that biological matter,' Gallagher said. During cross-examination, defense attorney Alan Jackson grilled Gallagher on the evidence collection method. He asked why police didn't go back to the station to obtain proper equipment - including swabs and an evidence bag. Instead, they relied on a neighbor's cups, and transported the materials in a Stop & Shop bag to the station. 'With an evidence bag, you know exactly where it came from and who is handling it,' Jackson said. Read has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating a vehicle under the influence and leaving the scene. 8 8
