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500 People Now Work At Google Health

Feb 27, 2020 FORBES – Search engine giant Google is intensely focusing its efforts and heavily investing in the health-tech space. More than 500 people now work at Google Health as its parent company Alphabet tries to improve search results that consumers see when they consult “Dr. Google”. The tech giant is counting on new businesses as growth slows in its core digital advertising revenues. A bet on health tech could prove very lucrative for...

Kids Raised In Daycare More Likely To Abuse: Study

"The stress of maternal separation can produce changes in the neural-circuit functions, which can appear as dependence or substance abuse in later life." "You're not my mommy." How childcare changes kids' brains Feb 13, 2020 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine – Child-rearing is culturally determined, varying between countries. For thousands of years in most cultures, it has been kinship groups and parents, especially mothers, who have been central. Parenting changed in the mid-20th century, partly through...

Coronavirus May Spread Via Feces, According To Science

"The scientists ... believe the virus can be 'transmitted through the potential fecal-oral route' if the hands, food, or water are contaminated." Newsweek – COVID-19, the new coronavirus which has killed more than 2,000 people, may spread through feces, scientists believe. As the virus is thought to have only come to the attention of health officials late last year, when workers at a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province, fell ill, experts are...

Cash-Strapped States Have Plenty Of Money For Planned Parenthood

States step up funding for Planned Parenthood | Hartford, CT (AP) – Several states have begun picking up the tab for family planning services at clinics run by Planned Parenthood, which last year quit a $260 million federal funding program over a Trump administration rule prohibiting clinics from referring women for abortions. States including New Jersey, Massachusetts and Hawaii already are providing new funding, and Democratic governors in Connecticut and Pennsylvania have proposed carving out money...

Did CIA LSD Trial Make Whitey Bulger A Killer?

"That's just horrifying, in my opinion. It opens up the question of whether he was responsible for the murders he committed." – Whitey Bulger juror | Feb 18, 2020 After learning of LSD tests, Whitey Bulger juror has regrets EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) — One of the jurors who convicted notorious crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger says she regrets her decision after learning that he was an unwitting participant in a covert CIA experiment with LSD. Bulger terrorized Boston from the 1970s...

FL Man Brings Life-Size Trump Cut-Out To Dialysis Center; It Does Not Go Well

Feb. 15, 2020 Washington Post – Nelson Gibson says his family isn’t allowed to stay for his multi-hour dialysis treatments. So he found another familiar face to sit beside him: President Trump. First, the 59-year-old Floridian brought an 8-by-10-inch picture. Then his son Photoshopped a small cardboard cutout of Gibson with his political hero grinning beside him, giving a thumbs-up. It stood on a ledge as Gibson reclined in his shirt embroidered with Trump’s name and his custom shoes...

Killer Cop Pleads Not To Be Put In Prison’s General Population

Motion: Alabama prisons not safe for convicted ex-officer Feb 12, 2020 Montgomery, Ala. (AP) — An attorney for a white former police officer convicted of killing an unarmed black man has filed a motion asking that his client not serve his sentence in an Alabama prison because of "unconstitutional conditions" behind bars. The motion was filed by Dwight Richardson III, the attorney for former Montgomery police officer Aaron Cody Smith, news outlets reported. Smith was sentenced last month...

Women Hunters Take Aim At NY’s Deer Overpopulation

Deer overpopulation meets its match: women who hunt | Suburban housewives have taken up gun and bow in record numbers. New York Times – A camo-clad pair of hunters slipped into the woods near Yaphank, Long Island, one Sunday this winter, to position themselves before sunset, when white-tailed deer are most active. One carried pink arrows, and the other had a purple bow. But the tree stand they planned to climb into was missing. It happens — the...

“Oral Copulation By Anesthesia” Case Dropped

Feb 4, 2020 Los Angeles Magazine – Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer announced today that his office plans to drop all charges in a high-profile case in which a Newport Beach doctor and his girlfriend were accused of drugging and sexually assaulting multiple women. Spitzer said at a press conference that a review of the case by his office found “There’s insufficient evidence to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt.” Dr. Grant Robicheaux, 39, and...

Celebrity Death Pool: #2, #5 Pass A Day Apart

Icon of Hollywood's Golden Age dies at 103 | Feb 5, 2020 – Hollywood Reporter – The actor who starred in such films as 'Gunfight at the O.K. Corral,' 'Spartacus,' 'Champion,' 'The Bad and the Beautiful,' and 'Lust for Life,' to name just a few, has passed. Kirk Douglas, the son of a ragman who channeled a deep, personal anger through a chiseled jaw and steely blue eyes to forge one of the most indelible and indefatigable...

Andy Reid’s Victory Meal (Fake Meat Was NOT Involved)

FEB 3, 2020 Business Insider – Andy Reid hoisted the Lombardi Trophy for the first time in his 21-year coaching career, and the illustrious head coach is ready to celebrate the best way he knows how. He's going to get "the biggest cheeseburger you've ever seen." After his Kansas City Chiefs secured a come-from-behind victory over the San Francisco 49ers to win Super Bowl LIV, Reid and his quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, sat for a postgame interview...

City Water Is TOXIC: Study

"The discovery of these previously unknown, highly toxic byproducts raises the question how much chlorination is really necessary." – Johns Hopkins What's in your EPA-approved tap water? Researchers identify new toxic byproducts of chlorined drinking water Jan 28, 2020 by Johns Hopkins University Mixing drinking water with chlorine, the United States' most common method of disinfecting drinking water, creates previously unidentified toxic byproducts, says Carsten Prasse from Johns Hopkins University and his collaborators from the University of California, Berkeley and Switzerland. The...

Hunter Biden Due In Court; Joe Citing Him In Stump Speeches

Hunter Biden Ordered To Appear In Child Support Case CNN – Hunter Biden was ordered to appear in court in Arkansas next week or potentially face being held in contempt of court after not turning over financial documents in an ongoing child support case, court filings show. Lunden Alexis Roberts filed a lawsuit in May against Hunter Biden seeking child support and health care for her child, who was born in August 2018. Circuit Judge Holly Meyer...

Chinese New Year Canceled As ‘Mutating’ Virus Spreads Rapidly

"China warns the deadly Wuhan coronavirus is 'mutating' and could spread further, with over 2,000 people tested after being close to those infected." – Business Insider Beijing cancels New Year celebrations amid coronavirus fears CNN reports that authorities in the Chinese capital have canceled all large-scale New Year celebrations to contain the spread of the virus. More from the Associated Press ... China shuts down more cities in bid to contain deadly virus BEIJING (AP) — China decided Thursday to...

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