by -NO AUTHOR- -- (USA Today) When seven people arrived at a Delaware hospital in March with drug-resistant MRSA infections, the similarities were alarming. All of the patients had the same strain more…
Category Archives for: Health
Germany 'exporting' old, sick to foreign care homes
by -NO AUTHOR- -- (London Guardian) Growing numbers of elderly and sick Germans are being sent overseas for long-term care in retirement and rehabilitation centres because of rising costs and falling standards more…
Judge temporarily blocks midterm-abortion limits
by -NO AUTHOR- -- (Bloomberg) A Georgia judge granted a preliminary injunction in response to a request by three Georgia doctors seeking an order blocking enforcement of laws limiting availability of midterm more…
Inventor: Internet leaving kids brain-dead
by -NO AUTHOR- -- (TELEGRAPH) — Trevor Bayliss, the inventor of the wind-up radio, has warned the internet is dumbing down children. Mr Bayliss, 75, voiced fears about what he described as more…
Dads disappear from households across U.S.
by -NO AUTHOR- -- (WASHINGTONTIMES) — Nicole Hawkins‘ three daughters have matching glittery boots, but none has the same father. Each has uniquely colored ties in her hair, but none has a more…
Study: Just 1 thing between mankind and disaster
by Bob Unruh -- Contrary to the claim of global-warming alarmists that the consumption of oil and gas fuels has been detrimental to the Earth, mankind barely could exist without them, a more…
Flossing your teeth a waste of time?
by -NO AUTHOR- -- (DAILYMAIL) — Visits to the dentist are never pleasant. Not only do we have our pearly whites scraped, prodded and drilled, we then have to endure a telling-off more…
Super poo: Fecal transplants way of future?
by -NO AUTHOR- -- (NEWS.com.au) — You've heard of sperm banks and blood banks - but what about stool banks? "It's already happening in America," Professor Thomas Borony, Director of the Centre more…
Firm sues feds to resume selling horses as food
by -NO AUTHOR- -- (DAILYMAIL) — A New Mexico meat company has filed a lawsuit against the federal government, accusing it of politically motivated inaction on its application to become the first more…
Prank-call nurse 'had previous suicide attempts'
by -NO AUTHOR- -- (TELEGRAPH) — The nurse who was found hanged after the Duchess of Cambridge radio DJ prank had made two previous suicide attempts, it has been claimed. Jacintha Saldanha, more…