MAILONLINE – Dogs that are fed raw meat are more likely to excrete the antibiotic-resistant bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli) in their faeces, vets have warned.
Prior research has shown that there also is potential for the E. Coli to be passed from the dogs to their human owners through normal, every day interaction.
Researchers at the University of Bristol suggest that pet owners who are raw feeding their dogs should take extra precautions when cleaning...
Knowing your risk factors and the early signs of type 2 diabetes can help prevent or delay development of this chronic condition that affects millions of people.
Fox News – At least 181 K-12 educators, including four principals, were arrested on child sex-related crimes in the U.S. in the first six months of 2022, ranging from child pornography to raping students.
Men made up the vast majority – 78% – of the arrests. Many of the arrests involved especially heinous allegations.
Roger Weaver Freed, the 34-year-old former principal at Williamsport Area High School in Pennsylvania, was arrested in June and charged with sexual...
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TAMPA, Florida, July 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued the following news release:
U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Randy Xavier Jones (34, Sarasota) to five years and one month in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
The court also ordered Jones to forfeit proceeds traceable to the offense, including 12 fraudulently obtained prepaid debit cards containing unemployment...
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An Illinois-based Catholic hospital network will only cover fertility treatments for employees in opposite-sex marriages, Bloomberg Law first reported.
OSF HealthCare limited its definition of fertility for coverage to "the inability for a married couple of opposite-sex spouses to conceive," per documents obtained by Bloomberg Law.
The coverage seeks to assist "married opposite-sex spouses" trying to have a child, per the new definition.
The hospital chain employs more than 24,000 people at 15 hospitals and 132...
HEADLINE HEALTH – Sexually transmitted diseases have one thing in common with most other diseases, and it's the most important thing: prevention is far more effective than treatment.
The two-step formula for preventing sexually transmitted diseases is virtually failsafe and has been known for millennia:
Abstention before marriage
Monogamy after marriage
People who follow this simple approach rarely contract STDs. This is simple biology, nothing more, nothing less. One's views of morality, religion, gender identity, and...
THE HILL – The COVID-19 pandemic caused a surge in antibiotic-resistant “superbug” infections in hospitals, pushing back years of progress made combating antimicrobial resistance, according to a new analysis released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The threat of antimicrobial-resistant infections is not only still present but has gotten worse, according to the analysis.
Hospital-onset deaths and infections from antimicrobial resistant bacteria both increased at least 15 percent in 2020 compared to...
CNN Business — Starbucks is planning to close 16 locations across various cities, citing safety concerns.
The stores are in Seattle; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Washington, DC, and Portland, Oregon. They will be closed by the end of July.
The decision comes as Starbucks works to change the company culture under interim CEO Howard Schultz — and as employees across the country vote to unionize.
“After careful consideration, we are closing some stores in locations that have experienced...
NEW YORK (AP) — The longtime World Wrestling Entertainment impresario Vince McMahon agreed to pay more than $12 million over the past 16 years to suppress allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The amount is significantly larger than what was previously known.
Four women — all formerly affiliated with WWE — signed agreements with McMahon, 76, that bar them from discussing their relationships with him, the Journal reported on Friday, citing...
KAISER HEALTH NEWS – Annissa Holland should be excited her son is coming home from prison after four long years of incarceration. Instead, she’s researching rehab centers to send him to as soon as he walks out the gate.
She doesn’t know the person who’s coming home — the person who she said has been doing every drug he can get his hands on inside the Alabama prison system. She can hear it in the 34-year-old’s...
THE BRUSSELS TIMES – Smoking and alcohol have been known as the main risk factors for developing throat cancer, but research in recent years has also established a clear connection with oral sex.
According to the Cancer Registry Foundation in Brussels, 2,766 new diagnoses of head and neck cancer were made in 2019, corresponding to 24.2 new diagnoses per 100,000 persons per year.
A large majority of 2,058 diagnoses were made in men. In women, there...
(AP) — The Chinese capital has issued a mandate requiring people to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination before they can enter some public spaces including gyms, museums and libraries, drawing concern from city residents over the sudden policy announcement and its impact on their daily lives.
The health app that shows a person's latest PCR test results has been updated to make it easier to also access their vaccination status, according to Li Ang, a...
REAL CLEAR HEALTH – FNC's Tucker Carlson asked the question about whether mind-altering SSRI drugs have a connection to the massive increase in mass murders and suicides, particularly among young American men.
"Did it work? Let's see. Over the very same period, the suicide rate in the United States jumped by 35%. Did it work? Well, millions of people got on anti-suicide drugs and we wound up with many more suicides. So, maybe it's not...