A recent survey reveals a surprising bathroom habit: nearly 25% of Americans regularly urinate in the shower. The study, conducted by Talker Research, polled 2,000 adults and found that 12% do so daily, while another 12% do it several times a week.
Millennials lead the trend, with 25% admitting to daily shower urination, compared to 13% of Gen X and just 6% of Baby Boomers. Men are also more likely to participate, with 30% reporting...
The internet is once again buzzing with a bizarre trend: eating packing peanuts. While not as alarming as the infamous Tide Pod challenge, the practice has raised serious questions about safety. TikTok users have discovered that Lush, a cosmetics brand, uses "edible" packing peanuts for shipping, leading to a surge in videos of people consuming them.
Packing peanuts are made from vegetable starch, a biodegradable alternative to traditional styrofoam. However, experts caution that just because...
Seafood processors have a responsibility to determine whether there are food safety hazards that are reasonably likely to occur, including chemical contamination.
THE HINDU – Hyderabad’s Mitr Clinic, India’s first transgender healthcare centre, has shut down operations following an order from the U.S. President Donald Trump.
The closure comes in the wake of Mr. Trump’s decision to impose a 90-day freeze on all U.S. foreign assistance, including over $40 billion allocated for international projects through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The abrupt halt in funding impacted several initiatives globally, including Project ACCELERATE, under which Mitr...
The Floating Hospital receives over $4 million annually in federal grants for primary health care, according to Health Resources & Services Administration data.
CBS NEWS – A mystery illness has caused at least 60 deaths amid multiple outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, doctors say.
As of Feb. 19, 955 cases have been reported across at least two villages in a northwest region of the central African nation, according to the most recent bulletin from the World Health Organization's Africa office shared on Feb. 27.
Preliminary investigations traced the first outbreak to three children who became sick and...
YAHOO! NEWS – Multiple vaccine projects have been paused by the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy paused a multimillion-dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine, an advisory committee said Wednesday.
The Covid project was a $460 million contract with Vaxart to develop a new Covid vaccine...
THE HILL – Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature voted Thursday to remove gender identity as a protected class from the state’s civil rights code, sending the first-of-its-kind measure to Gov. Kim Reynolds (R).
The bill, first introduced last week, sped through the legislative process despite widespread opposition from Democrats and LGBTQ rights advocates who flooded the statehouse in Des Moines to protest its passage.
More than 2,500 people entered the building Thursday, the Des Moines Register reported, citing...