Dec 2, 2020
Fox News – Doug Band, who served as Clinton's right-hand man for years after he left the White House, told Vanity Fair the 42nd president visited Little St. James, the Caribbean island where Epstein allegedly trafficked underage victims.
Clinton has denied visiting Epstein's island, and a spokesperson provided the outlet with "detailed travelogue entries of the period in question that did not contain a visit."
Epstein's death last year sent shockwaves through the media...
PLUS: He “poured lighter fuel on her genital area and lit her on fire”
This injury a possible sign of domestic violence
| Nov. 30, 2020
| HealthDay News – As many as one-third of adult women who have a particular fracture to their forearms may be victims of intimate partner violence, according to a new study.
The findings underscore the need to screen women who receive fractures to their ulna for possible intimate partner violence, researchers said. That...
Understand wandering and how to address it
Nov 30, 2020
Mayo Clinic – Wandering and becoming lost is common among people with Alzheimer's disease or other disorders causing dementia. This behavior can happen in the early stages of dementia — even if the person has never wandered in the past.
If a person with dementia is returning from regular walks or drives later than usual or is forgetting how to get to familiar places, he or she...
Nov 29, 2020
Wilmington, Del. (AP) – Joe Biden fractured his right foot while playing with one of his dogs, an injury discovered in a scan Sunday and that will likely require him to wear a boot for several weeks, his doctor said.
Biden suffered the injury on Saturday and visited an orthopedist in Newark, Delaware, on Sunday afternoon, his office said.
"Initial x-rays did not show any obvious fracture," but medical staff ordered a more detailed...
They had coronavirus. Now they’re showing up at memory clinics with serious cognitive loss |
Nov 24, 2020 |
NJ.com – There’s the man who used to be so handy around the house, he could repair just about anything.
“But he had a problem with the fence, and he had to call his brother over to help fix it,” says Dr. Jacqueline Rondeau, director of the Montclair Memory Clinic.
And there’s the registered nurse whose memory is suddenly failing...
"In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control published a report estimating that 513,000 girls and women in the U.S. were at risk or may have been victimized by FGM/C."
Washington, September 21, 2020
U.S. Representative Scott Perry (PA-10) applauded the passage of legislation in the House that changed our criminal code to ensure the successful future prosecution of those who perpetrate Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C).
Congressman Scott Perry said:
“FGM/C is an especially heinous practice that...
"Despite an overall improvement in detection rates as the pandemic has progressed, our estimates showed that the true number of people to have been infected across our sample of 15 countries was 6.2 times greater than the reported number."
Australian study suggests true COVID-19 rate is far higher than official tallies
If the pool of infected people is indeed that much larger, this would reduce the fatality rate to one death per 263 cases, or 0.38...
"Too often women are offended, mistreated, raped and forced to prostitute themselves ... If we want a better world, a home of peace and not a courtyard of war, we all must do much more for the dignity of each woman." – Pope Francis
Nov 25, 2020
PARIS (AP) — With domestic violence on the rise amid the coronavirus pandemic, activists are holding protests Wednesday from France to Turkey and world dignitaries are trying to find ways...
Roving Bear Helps Himself to a Late Night Snack
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Did This Bear Really Just Do That?
When Dennis saw his truck door was open, he quickly checked the Ring App to see what happened.
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Watch for large, delayed outbreaks of endemic diseases following COVID-19 controls |
Nov. 9, 2020
High Meadows Environmental Institute – Social distancing and mask wearing to reduce the spread of COVID-19 have also protected against many other diseases, including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
But susceptibility to those other diseases could be increasing, resulting in large outbreaks when masking and distancing stop, say a team of Princeton University researchers.
Measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 through...
Have you been told you have 'chronic fatigue syndrome'? You may be the target of those seeking to profit from hoax treatments ...
Proposed guidelines reject useless chronic fatigue syndrome treatments
Nov 17, 2020
STAT News – For years, the prevailing “wisdom” about people diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome was they were just terribly out of shape and harbored irrational fears they had an organic illness.
The favored treatments were graded exercise therapy, designed to counter the...
"I know the public is tired of hearing about masks, but until we increase the masking that we are doing, we won't be able to get this under control." – Dr. David Basel
City readies mask rule after push from medical groups
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The largest city in South Dakota appears ready to reverse course and pass a mask mandate Tuesday after enforcement was removed from the ordinance and medical groups said hospitals have...
"Seven counts of sexual penetration of a person unconscious of the nature of the act by fraudulent representation"
Nov 17, 2020 |
CNN – The University of California system has reached a $73 million settlement Monday with alleged victims of sexual abuse by a former obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. James Heaps.
Heaps had worked part-time as a gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles's (UCLA) student health center from about 1983 to 2010, and was hired by UCLA...
November 11, 2020
Pennsylvania State University – Self-reports of smell and taste changes provide earlier markers of the spread of infection of SARS-CoV-2 than current governmental indicators, according to an international team of researchers.
The researchers also observed a decline in self-reports of smell and taste changes as early as five days after lockdown enforcement, with faster declines reported in countries that adopted the most stringent lockdown measures.
John Hayes, professor of food science, Penn State...