Gonorrhoea and syphilis sex infections reach record levels in England ☞ BBC News – UK
“STIs aren’t just an inconvenience – they can have a major impact on your health and that of any sexual partners.”
June 6, 2023
Tag: Health
Food poisoning outbreaks often linked to sick workers: CDC ☞ WFAA – DFW
“About 48 million people a year in the U.S. are sickened by foodborne illness, including 128,000 who are hospitalized and 3,000 who die, according to the CDC.”
May 30, 2023
Uganda passes new law against stealing of human organs ☞ Al Jazeera – Qatar
“Local media have in recent years reported cases of women recruited for domestic work in the Middle East being conned into medical procedures after which their kidneys are sold in global trafficking rings.”
May 30, 2023
Dilation after gender-affirming surgery ☞ Mayo Clinic
“For the first year after surgery, you will dilate many times a day. After the first year, you may only need to dilate once a week. Most people dilate for the rest of their life.”
May 24, 2023
Why you shouldn’t touch these hairy caterpillars ☞ KHOU – Houston
“An ice pack should be applied to the site of the sting.
Oral antihistamines can be administered to help relieve the itching and burning sensations.
For caterpillars with stout spines, try carefully applying cellophane tape to, and stripping it from, the sting site to remove the irritating spines.”
May 19, 2023
WHO Promotes ‘Early Childhood Masturbation’ in Official Sex Ed Guidance ☞ PJ Media
“The advice proposes that four-to-six year olds should be taught to ‘talk about sexual matters’ and ‘consolidate their gender identity’.”
May 15, 2023
Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common ☞ Science.org
“When neuropsychologist Bernhard Sabel put his new fake-paper detector to work, he was ‘shocked’ by what it found. After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%.”
May 9, 2023
‘Huge biological risk’ after Sudan fighters occupy lab: WHO ☞ Gulf News – United Arab Emirates
“The World Health Organisation said Tuesday that fighters in conflict-ravaged Sudan had occupied the national public laboratory holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an ‘extremely, extremely dangerous’ situation.”
April 25, 2023
Leg-lengthening surgery gains popularity among men seeking to be taller ☞ NBC News
“The $75,000, four-hour surgery, which is not generally covered by insurance, involves cutting the thigh bones in each leg and inserting a rod inside them. Then over the next three to four months, the rods are lengthened by up to 1 millimeter (0.04 inches) per day, via an external remote control. New bone grows over the rods.”
April 23, 2023
Tuberculosis-Infected Woman Still Going Out in Public Despite Arrest Warrant ☞ Gizmodo
“The officer noted that she continued to leave her home, at one point even taking public transportation to visit a casino in the area. A court-appointed visitor also said they have been unable to get in touch with the woman or her family since a scheduled appointment in early March.”
April 7, 2023
‘I Felt Bullied’: Mother of Child Treated at Transgender Center Speaks Out ☞ The Free Press
“Caroline assumed counseling at the center would help Casey sort things out. But in retrospect, she says, what the psychologist at the center did was solidify the idea that Casey needed medical intervention for his gender distress.” …
“She was told medical intervention would help relieve her 14-year-old’s psychological distress. That’s not what happened.”
April 3, 2023
Pandemic Kilos Push 10,000 US Army Soldiers Into Obesity ☞ VOA
“The military loses more than 650,000 workdays each year because of extra weight and obesity-related health costs exceed $1.5 billion annually for current and former service members and their families, federal research shows.”
April 2, 2023
Person dies of rabies in Auckland in first known New Zealand case ☞ Radio New Zealand News
“They were an overseas traveller and contracted it abroad.”
March 30, 2023
On This Day: March 27, 1915 – Typhoid Mary is put in quarantine for the rest of her life – Video, Links
Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born American cook believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever. The infections caused three confirmed deaths, with unconfirmed estimates of up to 50.
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March 27, 2023
Fentanyl Facts: It’s The Leading Cause Of Death For Americans Ages 18 To 49 ☞ Law Enforcement Today
“Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 49. Fentanyl is now the number one cause of overdose deaths in the country, surpassing heroin by a large margin. Over 150 people die every day from overdoses related to synthetic opioids like fentanyl, about 55,000 yearly.”
March 23, 2023
Walking and talking at the same time gets harder once you’re 55, study finds ☞ CBS News
“As compared to walking quietly, walking under dual-task conditions adds stress to the motor control system because the two tasks must compete for shared resources in the brain. What we believe is that the ability to handle this stress and adequately maintain performance in both tasks is a critical brain function that tends to be diminished in older age.”
March 22, 2023
What’s Really In My Fishballs? – Talking Point Episode 38 – Video
“Do you know what’s in the fishballs you eat? Talking Point travels to Vietnam to track down the source of a key ingredient and finds out if our fishballs are more unhealthy than we realize.”
March 20, 2023
Skittles, Campbell’s soup, Hostess donuts, jelly beans, more could be banned under proposed bill ☞ TheBlaze
“Gabriel’s bill proposes a prohibition on ‘manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale’ food containing any of five substances. The substances are brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propyl paraben, red dye 3, and titanium dioxide.”
March 18, 2023
The Humans Who Live as Lab Rats ☞ The Free Press
Meet the men and women who get paid to be injected with brand-new wonder drugs.
March 15, 2023
Child and teen mortality in the US experiences largest increase in decades ☞ MedicalXpress
“For example, the researchers found that suicide rates at ages 10-19 began increasing in 2007 and climbed by 70% by 2019. Homicide rates began increasing in 2013, rising by 33% by 2019. The number of overdose deaths began to rise in 2019, and deaths from car accidents dramatically jumped in frequency in 2020 and 2021.”
March 13, 2023
Most Overweight and Obese Cities in the U.S. ☞ WalletHub
“Overall Rank – #1. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX”
March 13, 2023
Nigerian politician flew man to UK to harvest organ because he didn’t want relative to face transplant risk ☞ Sky News – UK
“A senior Nigerian politician tried to bring a street trader to the UK to harvest his kidney because it was ‘far better to buy one’ than find a family member to donate the organ, a court has heard.”
March 9, 2023
WHO says the world is consuming way too much salt ☞ CTV News – Canada
“Unhealthy diets are a leading cause of death and disease globally, and excessive sodium intake is one of the main culprits,”
March 9, 2023
Teacher to be suspended after allegedly forcing pupils to clean up her vomit ☞ News24 – South Africa
“These allegations are shaming the sector, which is supposed to set high moral standards for learners to follow. As ‘in-loco parentis’, educators are expected to teach learners the best ways to behave. As such, I find it very difficult to believe that a normal human being, who is a parent and an educator, can do such to young children,”
February 27, 2023
WA woman with tuberculosis faces arrest for refusing treatment ☞ The Seattle Times
“According to the case filings, the woman started, then refused continuing treatment for TB after testing positive. The health department first sought court-ordered compliance in January 2022, with orders renewed by the court through 2022. The department, in its filings, said it had ‘attempted and failed to obtain voluntary compliance for voluntary isolation and treatment.’”
February 24, 2023
U.S. Government Negotiates Deal to Give WHO Authority Over U.S. Pandemic Policies ☞ The Daily Sceptic
“Once a health emergency is declared, all signatories, including the United States, would submit to the authority of the WHO regarding treatments, government regulations such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates, global supply chains, and monitoring and surveillance of populations.”
February 20, 2023
CDC Adds COVID Vaccine to Immunization Schedule for Children Starting at Six Months ☞ Legal Insurrection
“A new row has been added with the columns for age 6 months–18 years highlighted in yellow to indicate the recommended age for COVID-19 vaccination. The overlying text ‘2- or 3-dose primary series and booster (See Notes)’ has also been added”… “The CDC cannot mandate vaccines. But schools often use these requirements for the vaccine schedules:”
February 20, 2023
New Cochrane Study on Masks and Covid ☞ City Journal – NYC
“Before the pandemic, clinical trials repeatedly showed little or no benefit from wearing masks in preventing the spread of respiratory illnesses like flu and colds. That was why, in their pre-2020 plans for dealing with a viral pandemic, the World Health Organization, the CDC, and other national public-health agencies did not recommend masking the public.”
February 17, 2023
Flight attendant reveals 7 mistakes people make in plane toilets ☞ Daily Mail Online – UK
‘This means that every time you go to the loo, not only are you breathing in the air of many others who have “done their business” before you (especially if it’s a long-haul flight) but you could also be breathing in potential faeces particles, circulating the air after a toilet flush.’
February 16, 2023
Emails show doctors from St Louis transgender clinic telling teachers to ‘affirm’ fifth graders ☞Daily Mail Online – U
“The doctor then suggested that all of the girls were genuinely transgender, and that it simply took their friend to realize it for them to as well.”
February 16, 2023
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