Archive for the 'Health' Category
Tick Bites That Trigger Severe Meat Allergy on Rise Around the World
October 6th, 2016Via: Guardian: People living in tick-endemic areas around the world are being warned of an increasingly prevalent, potentially life-threatening side effect to being bitten: developing a severe allergy to meat. The link between tick bites and meat allergies was first described in 2007, and has since been confirmed around the world. Sufferers of “tick-induced mammalian […]
National Guard, State Police Descend on 81-Year-Old’s Property to Seize Single Pot Plant
October 6th, 2016Via: Daily Hampshire Gazette: All that remains of the solitary marijuana plant an 81-year-old grandmother had been growing behind her South Amherst home is a stump and a ragged hole in the ground. Margaret Holcomb said she was growing the plant as medicine, a way to ease arthritis and glaucoma and help her sleep at […]
World’s First Baby Born with Controversial New ‘Three-Parent’ Technique
September 28th, 2016Via: Independent: The world’s first child created using a controversial “three-parent” baby technique has been born in Mexico, it has been announced. Limited details about the birth were revealed ahead of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s scientific congress in Salt Lake City next month, where it will be discussed more fully. According to critics, […]
U.S. Among Most Depressed Countries in the World
September 15th, 2016Via: U.S. News and World Report: The U.S. is one of the most depressed countries in the world, according to the World Health Organization. In terms of quality years of life lost due to disability or death – a widely adopted public health metric that measures the overall burden of disease – the U.S. ranked […]
How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
September 12th, 2016Via: New York Times: The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to downplay the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show. The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday in […]
Hillary Clinton Collapses, Carried Away from 9/11 Ceremony
September 11th, 2016More like dragged. Watch her feet. Wow. That was a bad one. Via: Zdenek Gazda: Hillary Clinton 9/11 NYC pic.twitter.com/q9YnsjTxss — Zdenek Gazda (@zgazda66) September 11, 2016 Backup of video:
VaxXed Stories: The Prosecutor
August 31st, 2016Via: VaxXed TV:
Dr. Drew Pinsky’s Show Cancelled After Discussing Hillary Clinton’s Health Situation
August 25th, 2016See: Dr. Drew Pinsky On Hillary Clinton’s Medical Situation: “Gravely Concerned”: A week later… Via: New York Post: HLN has canceled its appointment with “Dr. Drew.” The current-affairs show, hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky (“Celebrity Rehab,” radio’s “Loveline”), has been axed after 5 1/2 years. It will be replaced — at least for the time […]
‘Mind-Controlled Nanobots Could Release Drugs Inside Your Brain’
August 25th, 2016Hmm. Via: New Scientist: A man has used thought alone to control nanorobots inside a living creature for the first time. The technology released a drug inside cockroaches in response to the man’s brain activity – a technique that may be useful for treating brain disorders such as schizophrenia and ADHD. Getting drugs to where […]
Dr. Drew Pinsky On Hillary Clinton’s Medical Situation: “Gravely Concerned”
August 18th, 2016The original link for this audio is on KABC 16 August 2016. The title is Dr. Drew Speaks Out on Hillary’s Health. However, that page is now displaying, “Whoops! Page Not Found” At the time I’m posting this, the audio player widget on KABC at the link above still plays the interview. In case that […]
