EVERYDAY HEALTH – In the United States, acts of BDSM — which stands for bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism — can be prosecuted under state criminal laws, even when they’re consensual.
Laws Regarding BDSM: What You Need to Know
According to U.S. law, a criminal offense occurs when one person causes physical harm to another, regardless of whether they consent to it or not.
Each individual state is responsible for classifying an...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Media Statement | For Immediate Release: Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Starting today, Quest Diagnostics will begin testing for monkeypox. The company has developed a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test that uses patient swab specimens to qualitatively detect non-variola orthpoxviruses and monkeypox virus DNA. The test is now available to healthcare providers nationwide (except in New York)*.
Quest is also verifying CDC’s orthopoxvirus test and plans to make it available to...
LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) — A Pennsylvania man has been charged in the 1975 cold case killing of a 19-year-old woman after DNA on a discarded coffee cup appeared to match DNA left on the victim’s clothing.
Criminal homicide charges were filed against 68-year-old David Sinopoli, of Lancaster, in the murder of Lindy Sue Biechler, of Manor Township, Pennsylvania. Lancaster County Det. Christopher Erb and Manor Township Police Department Det. Sgt. Tricia Mazur filed the charges.
Sinopoli...
The Epoch Times – Over a million people in the United States are diagnosed with cancer every year.
Despite cancer being one of the most common causes of fatalities in the world, there are a striking number of cancer survivors who successfully manage their conditions with a range of treatments and lifestyle changes.
According to statistics, the rate of cancer survivors is on the rise, with an estimated 17 million as of January 2019, and a...
BEST LIFE – Rita Wilson wears many hats: She's an actor, a country music singer, and of course the wife of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks.
But in 2015, the multi-hyphenated talent was delivered a surprising setback when she learned she had breast cancer.
Taking leave from her Broadway role in Fish in the Dark opposite Larry David, Wilson underwent a double mastectomy and reconstructive breast surgery before being pronounced cancer-free.
Since then, she's been spreading one important...
ELLE – Florence Pugh isn't one to sit tight when the trolls come calling—and we love her for it.
Just weeks after she called out salacious headlines claiming she was dating a longtime friend she was merely pictured with, Pugh has come back out with another massive "f--k you" to trolls over a dress she wore to Valentino's Haute Couture show in Rome over the weekend.
The bright pink dress was made of sheer material, which...
KAISER HEALTH NEWS |
RAPID CITY, S.D. ― Jeni Rae Peters would make promises to herself as she lay awake nights after being diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago.
“My kids had lost so much,” said Peters, a single mom and mental health counselor. She had just adopted two girls and was fostering four other children. “I swore I wouldn’t force them to have yet another parent.”
Multiple surgeries, radiation, and chemotherapy controlled the cancer. But,...
The United Nations Population Fund continues to report that there's stigma associated with being a rape victim.
MEKELLE, Tigray - “We fled on the back of a truck. When they captured us, they took me to another place, they raped me, and left me alone in the bush.” says a 17-year-old survivor of conflict-related sexual violence in Tigray. I regained consciousness one day later, but there was no one around to support me.”
“I tried to...
Confessed Highland Park shooter Robert Crimo III admitted to cops three years ago that he was a depressed teenage drug user when quizzed about threatening to “kill everyone” in his family, newly released documents show ...
(CNN Business) Even as its ridership was decimated by the pandemic in 2020, Uber recorded 141 reports of rape on its platform in the United States, the company disclosed in its safety report released Thursday.
The 78-page report, which covers 2019 and 2020, is the second-ever Uber has released regarding safety incidents following a CNN investigation into sexual assault and abuse on the ride-hailing platform four years ago.
"Societal issues, national trends, and impacts of major...
CMT NEWS – Toby Keith and his camp are setting the record straight.
“Team Toby” took to social media late to address imposter profiles pretending to be the country hitmaker. The “Red Solo Cup” singer witnessed an increase in fake accounts since revealing his cancer diagnosis.
“We are aware of the many imposter profiles claiming to be Toby on social media, but it’s come to our attention that some of these accounts are now posting falsified...
HEALTHSHOTS – If you find a bump anywhere on your body, it’s a valid reason for concern.
However, if you have bumps around your nipples, it’s not something you have to lose sleep over.
Well, you are not in this alone because we all have been told that any lumps and bumps on your breasts are worth checking out, if they stay for too long.
So why do we have nipple bumps?
According to Dr Tanaya, who is...
BACKGROUND
Pneumoscrotum is a rare clinical occurrence in which air accumulates in the scrotum.
The origin of air is primarily from trauma, but spontaneous pneumoscrotum can develop from gastrointestinal or pulmonary sources.
Physical examination of pneumoscrotum typically includes crepitus of the perineal region and scrotal swelling and associated findings depending on the origin of the free air. However, pneumoscrotum in the setting of a scrotal wound, which allows air to pass freely outside the body, has not...