HEALTH CONDITIONS

Doctor reveals exactly how many drinks it takes to make you hungover

JOE.CO – “One or two units of alcohol increases the heart rate, expands blood vessels, and gives a slight buzz,” began Dr Bhavini Shah. One unit equals eight grams of pure alcohol – the amount most people can process in an hour. “After four to six units, alcohol begins to impact your nervous system, decreasing reaction time and affecting areas of the brain associated with decision making, resulting in potentially more reckless behaviour.” “After eight units,...

New Virginia law forces retailers to disclose when collecting data on reproductive health searches, purchases

"I don't want everybody knowing my business out there," one anonymous woman said.

Antidepressant Withdrawal Is a Major Public Health Issue, Experts Warn Health

Almost one-third of long-term users reported symptoms that lasted for more than three months. Four-fifths of these patients were unable to stop their antidepressants despite trying.

Good and Bad Exercises for Low Back Pain

Exercise is good for low back pain -- but not all exercises are beneficial.

Gaslighting: What It Is and How to Stop It

Gaslighting is not a mental illness; it is a form of manipulation.

‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex

THE GUARDIAN – Now that Lucy has been in a steady relationship for a year, she finds herself looking back at previous sexual encounters through a new lens. The slaps to her face. Hands round her neck. The multiple late-night messages from one partner – nine years older and, in her words, “a Tinder situation”: “Can I come over and rape you?” “I like to think I enjoyed my single 20s,” says Lucy, now 24. “I...

Mayo Clinic Q&A: It’s a new era for knee replacements and other joint surgeries

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I know there's a knee replacement in my not too distant future. I'm wondering if there are new techniques or technologies that will give me a good outcome? ANSWER: Not so long ago, undergoing a total hip or knee replacement and recovery was a grueling and often painful ordeal. While these are still major surgeries, new techniques and technologies are redefining them — and improving people's outcomes. Robotic-assisted joint replacement technology has revolutionized...

Prosecutors seek murder charges for 2 men accused in deaths of 3 Kansas City Chiefs fans last year

CNN – Two Missouri men already facing charges in the mysterious case of three friends found dead outside a Kansas City home after watching a Chiefs football game last year could have some charges upgraded to include three counts of second degree murder, court documents show. Clayton McGeeney, 36, Ricky Johnson, 38, and David Harrington, 37, were discovered outside of Jordan Willis’ Platte County home, north of Kansas City, around 10 p.m. on January 9,...

Trans UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas will be stripped of titles after university bends the knee to Trump admin

The university was found to have violated Title IX by “allowing a male to compete in female athletic programs and occupy female-only intimate facilities.”

America’s Coming Smoke Epidemic

THE ATLANTIC – For 49 straight days, everyone in Seeley Lake was breathing smoke. A wildfire had ignited outside the small rural community in Montana, and the plume of smoke had parked itself over the houses. Air quality plummeted. At several moments, the concentration of particulate matter in the air exceeded the upper limit of what monitors could measure. Christopher Migliaccio, an associate professor of immunology at the University of Montana, saw an opportunity to do what...

Men’s Mental Health Affected By Financial, Societal Pressures: Report

KFF HEALTH NEWS – The continuance of defining manhood as being a provider, especially amidst financial uncertainties, means men are 16.3 times more likely to contemplate suicide, researchers have found. The 19th: What’s Hurting American Men? New Report Points To Financial Pressure And Isolation The alarm over men has intensified in recent years: They’re in crisis — disconnected, dejected and drawn to manosphere influencers peddling antifeminist and far-right ideologies. “The State of American Men 2025,” a new...

Jimmy Swaggart Dies at 90; Passionate Televangelist Was Ousted by Scandal

A fire-and-brimstone preacher, he reached millions and made millions in a global enterprise before tumbling from grace over his encounters with a prostitute.

Why your addictive personality is increasing your cancer risk

THE TELEGRAPH – Millions of people smoke, have too much alcohol, or are overweight or obese – all known risk factors for cancer. But there are other addictions that can be just as damaging to our health. It’s these lesser-known dependencies that are subtly increasing our risk of cancer that Dr Raphael Cuomo, a cancer epidemiologist and professor at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, wants to draw our attention to. Three ways to...

Heart attacks are no longer the leading cause of death in the US

NEW SCIENTIST – Deaths from heart attacks have plummeted in the US over the past 50 years, whereas deaths from chronic heart conditions have skyrocketed, probably due to people living longer. “We’ve made some really great progress in certain areas of heart disease mortality, but now we’re seeing this shift,” says Sara King at Stanford University in California. She and her colleagues collected data on heart disease deaths from 1970 to 2022 using the US Centers...

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