IFLSCIENCE.COM – Have you ever noticed a strange crease or fold in your earlobes or those of people you know?
It looks like a diagonal line that extends backwards and diagonally across the earlobe from the tragus (the fleshy bump in front of your ears’ opening) to its edge.
This fold, known as Frank’s sign, has a disarmingly quaint sounding name given that some believe it could indicate coronary artery disease.
Frank’s sign was first reported by...
THE EPOCH TIMES – Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a new interview that Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine is not effective, his first comments since regulators missed a deadline to approve the shot.
“We’re looking at that vaccine. It is a single antigen vaccine, and for respiratory illnesses, the single antigen vaccines have never worked,” Kennedy told CBS in an interview released on April 9.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was supposed to decide...
FOOD SAFETY NEWS – Duda Farm Fresh Foods, Inc., based in Oxnard, CA, is recalling 1,587 cases of its 4 in/1.6 oz Marketside Celery Sticks sold at Walmart stores across 30 states because of potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
The recall was prompted by a random sampling conducted by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, which detected Listeria monocytogenes in one of multiple samples taken from a Georgia store.
Although the product is past its Best if...
KFF HEALTH NEWS – President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans are eligible for health programs such as Medicaid, food assistance, child care, and other services, former staff said.
The small team, with technical data expertise, worked out of HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, or ASPE.
Their dismissal mirrored...
THE GRANITE GROK – The topic of Joe Biden’s mental acuity, or lack thereof, is taking on a new life with the release of tell-all books written by White House insiders from the Biden Administration.
These books should come in a series called the Hypocrisy Dialogues, as the writers are the same people who defended Biden’s mental condition for four years.
The book garnering the majority of interest is “Uncharted,” written by Chris Whipple.
Whipple is a...
While you may not know these dyes by name, they can show up in your foods. Red No. 40, for example, can be found in salami, Yellow No. 6 in chicken bullion and Blue No. 1 in canned peas.
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has advised taking vitamin A to fight measles. A Texas hospital is now treating children with toxic levels of the supplement in their bodies.