Florida man eats feral pig meat, contracts rare biothreat bacteria
ARS TECHNICA – A Florida man was gifted the bloody meat of a feral pig, which he handled with his bare hands before cooking and eating it. In doing so, he inadvertently exposed himself to a highly infectious bacterium considered a potential bioterror threat.
The man developed an insidious infection that lurked in his heart implant and took doctors nearly two years to properly diagnose.
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CNN – President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Thursday that he takes a higher dose of aspirin than his doctors have recommended, blaming that for the visible hand bruises that have generated renewed questions about his health.
“They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump, 79, said of why he takes a larger dose. “I want...
Trump has previously confessed he now takes “extra care” when walking down stairs to avoid a fall, admitting to marines last month that he can't "bop down the stairs" like he once could.
The Breakdown – MOST PEOPLE KNOW Mark Cuban as a celebrity entrepreneur and investor, the guy you have seen on Shark Tank or courtside at Dallas Maverick games.1
Those of us who follow health policy know him as something else. He’s the business mogul who said he knew how to sell prescription drugs at a big discount, and proceeded to do just that.
Now Cuban says he has more ideas—not just on how to fix prescription...
The number of migrants caught crossing illegally dropped to the lowest levels in decades after Trump took office in January and implemented a sweeping asylum ban at the border.
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Eleven days after Charlie Kirk was killed in September, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the third-term Georgia congresswoman, was watching his memorial service on TV as the luminaries of the conservative movement and the Trump administration gathered to pay tribute to the young activist.
What stayed with Greene long afterward were the last two speakers who took the stage. First there was Kirk’s widow, Erika, who stood in white before the crowd...
NBC News – With further changes to the U.S.’ recommended vaccine schedule likely in the year ahead under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership, his agency’s recent scrutiny of one vaccine additive in particular — aluminum salts — may offer a clue about what’s to come.
Earlier this month, members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee — whom Kennedy selected after firing the previous group — suggested digging into...
A resident and an employee were killed after two explosions at the Bristol Health and Rehab Center resulted in a large fire and partial collapse of the building, officials said.
THE BULWARK – ONE OF THE MORE FASCINATING and revealing twists of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s crusade against vaccines is the way it holds up the policies of Denmark—tiny, socialist Denmark—as a model for America.
Denmark’s official vaccine guidelines for children are narrower than ours. They include the older, more familiar vaccines for diseases like measles, mumps, and pertussis. But they don’t include more recently developed shots for diseases like RSV, rotavirus, and meningococcal disease.
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A 2017 investigation revealed that the two Massachusetts locations of Recovery Centers of America, a rehab chain that charges patients an average of $24,000 a month, was severely understaffed and did not even offer all patients basic counseling.