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Keeping your blood pressure below this number reduces risk of severe Covid, study finds

By Sandee LaMotte CNN – High blood pressure is a known risk factor for a bout of Covid-19 severe enough to raise the specter of hospitalization and death. In fact, research has shown having high blood pressure doubles the risk of having a severe case of Covid, even if you are fully vaccinated and boosted. Sodium intake should be monitored to prohibit excessive consumption. Blood pressure is measured in units of millimeters of mercury (abbreviated as mmHg), which...

Homelessness Among Older People Is on the Rise, Driven by Inflation and the Housing Crunch

KAISER HEALTH NEWS, COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont. — On a recent rainy afternoon in this small town just outside Glacier National Park, Lisa Beaty and Kim Hilton were preparing to sell most of their belongings before moving out of their three-bedroom, two-bathroom rental home. Hilton, who was recovering from a broken leg, watched from his recliner as friends and family sorted through old hunting gear, jewelry, furniture, and clothes. “The only thing that’s not for sale...

A Pussy Riot member describes what Brittney Griner can look forward to in Russian penal colony

Maria "Masha" Alyokhina is a Russian political activist. She is a member of the anti-Putinist original gulag system from the 1950s," says Alyokhina, reached by NPR on tour in the United Kingdom. "But the sense is the same. It is a labor camp." Aloykhina says while most Americans imagine prison cells with bars, Griner can expect to live in "the zone" — a set of barracks with 80 to 100 women sleeping to a room...

Shrink Your Fibroids Naturally

CNW Network – In the book Shrink Your Fibroids Naturally, Jamaican author Keisha McDonald teaches women to do just that. McDonald is the busy owner of a gourmet vegan restaurant in Kingston called Kushite’s Vegetable Cuisine. She’s also a freelance attorney and womb healing coach. She has researched fibroids extensively with years of trial and error on a patient she was most invested in, herself. After discovering a whopping 40 cm fibroid the size of a...

“Turban Tossing” Protestors Demand Freedom From Sharia Law

Social media has been flooded with videos of young Iranians running up behind clerics on the streets and smacking their turbans off their heads.

Texas death row inmate executed after court rejects claim that he was “psychotic and paranoid”

Tracy Beatty was found guilty of killing his mother, Carolyn Click, after an argument in her home in November 2003.

Meditation works as well as a popular drug to reduce anxiety, study finds

PLUS: Drug makers are turning cartwheels over the "positive impact" of COVID-related depression on their sales potential SHOTS HEALTH NEWS – If you're suffering from anxiety, those negative thoughts and bad feelings can overwhelm you and interfere with your daily life. And while there are effective treatments, some people don't want to take medicine or see a therapist – or don't respond well to such treatments. Now, there's new evidence supporting another option. For the first time,...

In Blow to COVID Cover-Up, GOP’s Paul, Massie Sweep Ky.

(Headline USA) Amid an ebbing red wave midterm, Republicans notched big wins in Kentucky with Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Thomas Massie both pulling impressive numbers. Projections called the race early for Paul, who romped to a nearly 23-point win over leftist Democrat Charles Booker and immediately turned his focus on unfinished business in the Senate, promising to subpoena “every last document of Dr. Fauci” and unearthing the truth about whether COVID-19 can be...

Beer Could Be the Key to Preventing Alzheimer’s

GREEK REPORTER – Researchers have suggested in a recent study that hop flower extracts found in beer could hold the key to preventing Alzheimer’s which is a common form of dementia. Hops generally act as stabilizing agents in all beers. For their study, researchers from the University of Milano-Bicocca tested four common varieties of hop flower extracts to determine whether they would help to prevent brain protein clumping affiliated with Alzheimer’s. The Hop varieties put to...

Naked In Freezing Water: Why ‘Viking Swimming’ Is Trending In Europe

FORBES – Although swimming naked in cold water during the hardest days of winter could seem like an activity for the brave at heart, it’s a growing trend gaining momentum among everybody over the age of 16 around Europe. The main reasons for the popularity of what’s known as ‘Viking style swimming’—in addition to its daring nature and the simple thrill—are the mental and physical health benefits attached to immersing oneself into freezing water for...

Actress Who Played Porn Star Complains of Being Stereotyped As A Sex Symbol While Wearing Nipple-Revealing Dress

YAHOO! – Elisha Cuthbert's role as an ex-porn star in 2004's The Girl Next Door solidified her reputation as a sex symbol. Now, nearly two decades later, the actress says society still pressures her to live up to that title. "There was this pressure of, like, maybe the fashion world or whatever saw me as a certain thing when really it was a character," she told Paris Hilton on Monday's episode of her podcast, This...

Colo. Dems Use Magic Mushrooms to Draw Deadbeat Hippies to Polls

(Headline USA) In a red-wave election year in which incumbent Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet faces the possibility of defeat at the hands of centrist GOP candidate Joe O’Dea, Colorado Democrats have devised a shrewd plan to rally their core base of washed-out hippies and homeless drug addicts. Voters are deciding Tuesday whether theirs will become the second state, after Oregon, to create a legalized system for the use of psychedelic mushrooms. Ironically, the Oregon policy, implemented...

Votes Cast Today Will Shape Future Federal And State Abortion Laws

TUESDAY, NOV 8 2022 | UPDATED 8:50 AM Democrats and the White House are already second-guessing their messaging on the controversial subject in the lead-up to midterm elections that could shift the balance of power in the U.S. Congress. The New York Times: The Gender Gap In The Abortion Debate The male vote — and any lack of motivation among men — is critical for tight elections, as Democrats have made championing abortion rights a centerpiece of...

US hospitals are so overloaded that one ER called 911 on itself

The emergency department of a Seattle-area hospital became so overwhelmed last month that the department's charge nurse called 911 for help, telling the fire department that they were "drowning" and in "dire straits."

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