HEALTH CONDITIONS

‘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...

‘Fearless’ wingsuit flyer, 24, dies during 8,000-foot jump

NEW YORK POST – An experienced wingsuit flyer who starred in a documentary about his journey to become a champion skydiver has died during a jump from 8,000 feet. Liam Byrne, 24, plunged to his death on the Gitschen mountain in the Swiss Alps on Saturday in his latest jump in the specialized webbed suit, the BBC reported. Byrne, from Aberdeenshire in Scotland, had completed more than 4,000 jumps in his 10 years as a wingsuit...

‘I started to feel numb’: Woman recalls syringe attack at French music festival

“Someone tapped my left forearm. I started to feel numb in the muscle, like you do when you get a vaccine."

Cat naps, ‘piddle packs’ and amphetamines: Here’s what it can take to complete a marathon bombing run

CNN – The US bombing mission that targeted three nuclear facilities in Iran over the weekend was a massive undertaking that required its B-2 bomber pilots to test the limits of human endurance during a 37-hour mission. Seven stealth bombers carrying two crew members each flew nonstop halfway across the world and back in one of the longest air raids in modern military history. Melvin G. Deaile is one of few people who understands what it...

What’s Included in an Annual Physical Exam?

Your annual exam doesn't just check how you are right now. It can play a critical role in preventing health conditions.

The new coronavirus variant surging in China has arrived in the US.

Although the new coronavirus variant could be more contagious than earlier circulating variants, nothing so far suggests it is more severe.

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