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Maine Hospital Fired Nurses for Refusing COVID Shots — Now It’s Begging Them to Come Back

THE DEFENDER – Nurses and other healthcare workers at MaineGeneral Health, one of Maine’s largest healthcare providers, were unceremoniously fired two years ago if they refused to take the experimental mRNA injections touted as COVID-19 preventatives. Poland, who lives in Augusta, had worked as a registered nurse for 33 years. Her career included employment with MaineGeneral, Central Maine Medical Center, Pen Bay Medical Center and the Aroostook Medical Center. She couldn’t believe that the hospital would...

McConnell freezes up again, this time at a Kentucky event

CNN – It was an excruciating moment of powerlessness for one of Washington’s most powerful men. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s words dried up and he froze, standing silent and staring straight ahead for around 30 painful seconds in the middle of a press conference Wednesday – the second time he had endured such an uncomfortable on-camera ordeal since July. It is not clear whether it has happened more times away from the public’s gaze. But...

Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules. A similar fight is coming to the U.S.

STAT NEWS, MEXICO CITY — Kellogg’s is waging a war here over Tigre Toño and Sam el Tucán. A 2019 policy requires companies that make unhealthy foods to include warning labels on the front of any boxes they sell in Mexico to educate consumers about things like excess sugar and fat. Any food with a warning label — like Kellogg’s Fruit Loops or its Frosted Flakes, which typically contain more than 37 grams of added sugar...

Unclear how many in Lahaina lost lives as Hawaii authorities near the end of their search for dead

HONOLULU (AP) — Crews in Hawaii have all but finished searching for victims of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, authorities said Tuesday, and it is unclear how many people perished. Three weeks after the fire devastated Maui's historic seaside community of Lahaina, the count of the dead stands at 115. But an unknown number of people are still missing. Officials suggested that responders likely have already recovered any remains that are recognizable...

Poor Leadership Led To CDC Covid Test Failures

KFF HEALTH NEWS – In early February 2020, Kirsten St. George and her team at New York state’s public health lab received a test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to diagnose people infected with the new, rapidly spreading coronavirus. But, like many labs around the country, it quickly found the test gave inaccurate results. So test samples had to be sent back to the CDC for processing, wasting time and leaving...

Dirty air is biggest external threat to human health, worse than tobacco or alcohol, major study finds

CBS/AFP – Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicenter South Asia even as China quickly improves, a benchmark study showed Tuesday. Yet the level of funding set aside to confront the challenge is a fraction of the amount earmarked for fighting infectious diseases, said the research from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of...

Largest study of brains of athletes younger than 30 finds early signs of CTE even in amateur players

CTV NEWS – A new study from Boston University’s CTE Center has discovered more than 60 cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE, in athletes who were under the age of 30 at the time of their death. Researchers found about 40 per cent of the brains studied had developed some of the earliest signs of the disease, which is associated with repeated head trauma. The study also includes what researchers believe to be the...

North Carolina Hooters sued for racial discrimination against employees

CNN – The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a North Carolina Hooters restaurant for allegedly discriminating against Black or darker-skinned “Hooters Girls,” the federal agency announced Thursday. In March 2020, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Greensboro, North Carolina, Hooters temporarily laid off around 43 employees, dubbed “Hooters Girls” by the restaurant chain. The EEOC said in a lawsuit that the restaurant laid off a class of Black and dark-skinned women and...

Fox News’ Jesse Watters calls COVID-19 vaccine booster shots “a huge scam”

JESSE WATTERS (HOST): I'm going to walk around with this study in my pocket and if anybody tries to make me wear a mask, I'm going to say, "There's a study that says masks can give me cancer. Do you want me to get cancer? Obviously not." That's garbage. There's another shot that he's going to recommend all Americans take? Not just Americans with comorbidities, not just Americans that are over 65: Every single American? And the...

‘Still alive and wriggling’

CNN – When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic roundworm that wriggled between her forceps. Bandi told CNN of the world’s first discovery of a live worm inside a human brain: “I’ve only come across worms using my not-so-good gardening skills … I find them terrifying and this is not something I deal with...

New dementia risk score helps identify people at risk

Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK – A new dementia risk score, which draws on 11 mostly modifiable risk factors, identifies people at risk - from mid-life onwards - of developing the disease within the next 14 years, suggests a large long term study published in the open access journal BMJ Mental Health. The UK Biobank Dementia Risk Score, or UKBDRS for short, outperformed three other widely used risk scores originally developed in Australia...

Woman Arrested for Assault after McDonald’s Order Goes Wrong

MARGATE TALK – A Margate woman angered by an inaccurate drive-thru order faces felony burglary with assault charges following a chaotic assault on employees and the destruction of a cash register. On August 14, a customer at the McDonald’s in Coconut Creek became violent after receiving the wrong order. According to police, Nirva Pierre, 32, parked her car and entered the restaurant. There, she hurled a dessert at the counter and ran behind the...

Most fish oil supplements make unsupported heart health claims, finds new study.

Most fish oil supplements make unsupported heart health claims, finds new study. Here's why experts say most people can skip them. |

Joe the Plumber, 49

Born Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, December 3, 1973, Toledo, Ohio Died August 27, 2023 (aged 49) Other names "Joe the Plumber" Occupation(s) Commentator/correspondent; Former plumber's assistant Political party Republican (2012–2023) Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (/ˈwɜːrzəlbɑːkər/; December 3, 1973 – August 27, 2023), commonly known as "Joe the Plumber", was an American conservative activist and commentator. He gained national attention during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign season when, during a videotaped campaign stop in Ohio by Democratic nominee...

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