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Angelina Jolie said Tuesday that she underwent preventative surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes, two years after she sparked a debate on women’s health by getting a preventative double mastectomy.
Writing in the New York Times, the Hollywood actress and U.N. envoy said her decision, made because she carries a mutation in the BRCA1 gene that gave her a 50% risk of developing ovarian cancer, was not an easy one. Read More...
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Last week, I was one of the more than 8,000 attendees of ETHDenver 2022, a cryptocurrency conference that sprawled over a week and across several city blocks of Denver, Colo. Compared with other crypto-centric events like Art Basel or Bitcoin Miami, ETHDenver has a larger technical bent, with hackers coming from around the world to build projects on the Ethereum blockchain. Read More...
