CalMatters – As a physician, I am closely following a bird flu outbreak that is hitting our Central Valley dairy farms hard, especially since the California Department of Health reports at least 21 human cases.
This number seems to increase each week in our state, which has more dairy cows than any other. Bird flu has spread to at least 291 dairy herds in California.
As a board-certified doctor in internal and lifestyle medicines, I support...
FORBES – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now primed to take over as Secretary of Health and Human Services, drawing renewed scrutiny to a string of false claims he has helped spread over the better part of the past two decades:
Covid-19 targets certain races and gives others immunity:
Kennedy Jr. was caught on camera in July telling fellow diners that “Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and “the people who are most...
THE WASHINGTON POST – Meredith Rose’s children wanted ice cream on the long drive to her parents’ house for Thanksgiving last year, so she stopped at a McDonald’s and ordered an Oreo McFlurry.
A few minutes later, the attorney from Rockville, Maryland, learned that the restaurant’s ice cream machine was broken.
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Appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Senator JD Vance also said that liberal women celebrate their abortions and that Donald Trump would win the “normal gay guy vote.”
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The Real Reason Fast Food Is So Expensive
Fast food prices are high because demand for fast food remains really high, despite those higher prices.
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CATALYST – I recently drove to the local KFC and ordered a 12-piece meal to go. The price was just under $50 (tax included). Fortunately, I had a coupon that saved me some money, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel...
Mayo Clinic News Network – There are plenty of frights to go around on Halloween, but a hand injury probably isn't one you'd expect.
"Interestingly, it's the fourth busiest holiday for hand injuries," says Dr. Sanj Kakar, a Mayo Clinic orthopedic hand and wrist surgeon.
Dr. Kakar says almost one-third of those Halloween hand injuries are among kids ages 10 to 14. And most of them happen when people are carving pumpkins.
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"It's primarily...
THE NEW YORK TIMES – The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest, has agreed to pay $880 million to 1,353 people who say they were sexually abused as children by Catholic clergy.
The settlement, which experts said was the highest single payout by a diocese, brings Los Angeles’s cumulative total in sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion.
The settlement was announced on Wednesday in a joint statement by lawyers for the plaintiffs and...
CNN – Cleaning products may contain volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, which include hundreds of different chemicals, says Dr. Natalie Johnson, associate professor of environmental and occupational health at Texas A&M University School of Public Health.
Volatile organic compounds are gases that can be emitted from solid or liquid products, according to the EPA.
These chemicals can cause problems such as eye, nose and throat irritation and damage to the liver, kidney and central nervous system,...
In 2005, when he was 10, he and his parents founded the Italian Progeria Association, a charity that supports research into progeria and supports families dealing with the disease.
KFF HEALTH NEWS – In letters to the respective states warning of the upcoming layoffs, CVS signaled its plans to cut more than 630 jobs at it's Woonsocket, Rhode Island, headquarters. Another 416 employees of the pharmacy giant's Aetna subsidiary in Hartford, Connecticut, will also be laid off.
The Boston Globe: CVS To Cut More Than 630 Jobs Based At Rhode Island Headquarters
CVS Health is expected to cut more than 630 employees who report to...