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One billion people at risk of cholera, UN warns

Cholera is contracted from a bacterium that is generally transmitted through contaminated food or water. It causes diarrhoea and vomiting, and can be especially dangerous for young children.

The NAACP Says Florida Isn’t Safe for Black People. Data Tell a Different Story.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week cautioned black Americans to stay out of Florida, claiming that the state’s "openly hostile" policies put them at risk. But a Washington Free Beacon review found that minorities are far more likely to be the victims of hate crimes in liberal states like California.

He Returned to the US for His Daughter’s Wedding. He Left With a $42,000 Hospital Bill.

KFF Health News – Last June, Jay Comfort flew to the United States from his home in Switzerland to attend his only daughter’s wedding. But the week before the ceremony — on a Friday evening — Comfort said he found himself in “excruciating pain.” “I tried to gut it out for three hours because of the insurance situation,” said Comfort, a retired teacher and American citizen who has Swiss insurance. When the pain became unbearable, Comfort...

Rick Hoyt, Who Competed in Races With His Father, Dies at 61

Rick Hoyt, a regular at the Boston Marathon who competed in more than a thousand road races using a wheelchair pushed by his father, died on Monday. He was 61.

Fallout From NC Abortion Ban Will Reverberate In Southeast

KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION HEALTH NEWS The AP looks at why a former Democrat who ran on a pro-choice platform voted with Republicans in North Carolina to ban abortions at 12 weeks. Abortion developments from Texas, Wisconsin, and Nebraska are also in the news. And Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tries to avoid the abortion issue before an anti-abortion group. AP: How One North Carolina Lawmaker's Defection From The Democratic Party Upended Abortion Protections Mere weeks before North Carolina’s...

“New World Ag On Its Way” – Food Safety News

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – As the popular children’s poem goes: “This little piggy went to market.” Now that the Food and Drug Administration has authorized letting gene-edited pigs enter the human food chain, that may be the case for a vastly different sort of pig than the one in the Mother Goose poem. As a starter, German-style sausages, made from five 2-year-old genetically edited pigs, which were cooked up earlier this month at Washington State University,...

Bud Light Buying Back Unsold Beer as Company Scrambles After Backlash

NEWSWEEK – Bud Light is reportedly buying back unsold beer that has passed its expiry date, according to The Wall Street Journal—a move which could signal a change in strategy for the iconic brand following the culture-war storm it recently found itself in. After offering a sponsorship deal to trans activist and influencer Dylan Mulvaney in early April, sending the social media star a commemorative can celebrating the anniversary of her gender transition, Bud Light...

Jeffrey Epstein allegedly tried to extort Bill Gates over extramarital affair

THE GUARDIAN – Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, sources familiar with the matter said that after Epstein found out about the Microsoft co-founder’s affair with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova, he threatened Gates into reimbursing him for tuition costs that Epstein had initially covered for Antonova to attend software coding school. Epstein’s threat to Gates came in the form of an email he sent in 2017 after he failed to convince Gates to join a...

What To Eat When You’re Trying to Heal

CLEVELAND CLINIC – Food is the fuel that keeps your body running — and nutritional food is the fuel that keeps your body running well. What you eat impacts your energy levels, your immune system, your strength and even how quickly your wounds heal. “Poor nutrition before or during the healing process can delay your healing,” says registered dietitian Kavitha Krishnan, RD. “While eating well can help the body heal faster and fight infection.” That’s right:...

3-year-old shoots 2 people in Indiana, leading to arrest of man wanted for murder

ABC NEWS – A shooting in Indiana that injured two people after a three-year-old accessed a gun led to the arrest of a man wanted for murder in Illinois, authorities said. Trayshaun Smith, 23, was arrested on Thursday after he visited a hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, according to Lt. Justin Hartman of the Lafayette Police Department. Investigators eventually determined that the shooting that sent Smith and another victim to the hospital occurred when a...

Indiana sheriff’s deputy killed in dog attack that left her son, 8, wounded

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A sheriff's deputy died after being attacked in her Indianapolis home by a dog that also bit and wounded her 8-year-old son, authorities said Wednesday. Tamieka White, 46, was pronounced dead at the scene Tuesday night shortly after Indianapolis police officers responded to her home on the city's east side, officials said. She had been a deputy with the Marion County Sheriff's Office since 2007. Her young son was also bitten in the...

Meet the influential new player on transgender health bills

AP –  Do No Harm, a nonprofit that launched last year to oppose diversity initiatives in medicine, has evolved into a significant leader in statehouses seeking to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youths, producing model legislation that an Associated Press analysis found has been used in at least three states. The nonprofit, not widely known outside conservative medical and political circles, describes itself on its website as a collection of doctors and others uniting to...

Don’t get an epidural in Mexico, CDC warns—40 dead, including 1 Texan

ARS TECHNICA – At least five people in Texas have been hospitalized with suspected fungal infections in their brains and spinal cords that developed after traveling to Mexico for cosmetic surgeries involving epidural anesthesia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned this week. One of the Texans has died and the other four remain hospitalized in the state, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported this week. All five patients traveled from Texas to...

“Bike Karen” Was Right After All. She Has Shown Proof She Paid for That Bike.

THE ROOT – A woman now known as “Citi Bike Karen” alleges a video of her bursting into fake tears and crying for help over a Citi Bike she and a Black teen claimed to have paid for was misinterpreted. According to The Independent, her attorney insists her actions were painted into a false narrative. Attorney Justin Marino, representing the Karen identified as Bellevue Hospital physician’s assistant Sarah Comrie, said the viral video of his client’s...
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