Experimental Drugs Bring New Hope in ‘World’s Worst’ Ebola Outbreak
This week, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that at least 68 Ebola scares have been seen during the current outbreak across 27 states. The World Health Organization recently...
View ArticleALS Ice Bucket Challenge: Supporting Abortion or Saving a Life?
Presidential Participation in the Challenge On Wednesday, a video which was posted by George W. Bush showed the former president being doused with ice water by his wife, Laura. According to a report...
View ArticleEpic Lip Balm Battle Between Virginia and Fifth-grader
Chapstick Banned From School A school in Virginia has banned the use of Chapstick after eleven year old Grace Karaffa tried to treat her dry, cracked, bleeding lips with it. When the child asked if she...
View ArticleHealthcare Debt Will Have Less of an Impact on FICO Scores
Soon after the economic collapse a few years ago, the United States government and financial industry imposed tougher lending standards that eventually prevented millions of consumers with weak credit...
View Article700 Babies in Texas Potentially Exposed to Tuberculosis
Employee Diagnosed, Others Maybe in Danger After an employee at an El Paso hospital was diagnosed with tuberculosis, health officials determined that as many as 706 babies and 43 employees may have...
View ArticlePhysicians Received Billions from Pharmaceutical Companies
Physicians and teaching hospitals in the United States received $3.5 billion from pharmaceutical firms and medical device companies in the final five months of 2013, a finding that has many questioning...
View ArticleEbola Threat Spreads; Obama Refuses to Close Borders
Ebola Comes to America Last month, America had its first ever Ebola diagnosis when “A man who took a commercial flight from Liberia that landed in Dallas on Sept. 20 has been found to have the Ebola...
View ArticleStudy: Neurobiological Relationship Between People and Pets
Non-pet owners tend to believe that it is quite weird see pet owners treat their cats, dogs, birds or other animals like their own children, such as dressing them up for Halloween, throwing a birthday...
View Article“Breach of Protocol” Blamed in New Ebola Case
A second case of Ebola has been diagnosed in America, and health officials are blaming a “breach of protocol” for the first-ever transmission of the disease in the US. Oddly enough, the nurse who has...
View ArticleCDC Updates Protocol for Ebola Military Involved
Anxiety Brings the Need for More Protection According to a report from Reuters, “The United States will issue strict new guidelines telling American health workers to cover their skin and hair when...
View ArticleMaine Nurse Treats Ebola Patients and Isn’t Quarantined
Judge Rejects Limits Placed on Nurse’s Movements According to a report from Fox News, “A Maine judge has rejected a request by state officials to quarantine and restrict the movements of nurse Kaci...
View ArticleU.S. Healthcare Spending Spiraling Out of Control
As the mainstream media, Washington and the Obama administration throws their weight on #GruberGate – the Jonathan Gruber scandal which pretty much suggests the entire Affordable Care Act was based on...
View ArticleU.S. Finally Realizing Smoking is Bad for Your Health
A fewer percentage of Americans are smoking cigarettes than ever before. Decades ago, it was difficult not to come across someone who didn’t smoke. Nowadays, it’s quite hard to come into contact with...
View ArticleNations Hit by Ebola Can Expect Poor Economic Growth in 2014
A new report issued by the World Bank Tuesday shows that the organization has modified its decreases in its 2014 gross domestic product growth estimates for the three nations that were the most...
View Article8% of Americans are Depressed Women Most Affected
A new report released by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that just under eight percent of Americans 12 years of age or older suffer from depression, and about...
View ArticleHershey May Do Away With High-fructose Corn Syrup
Do you know what chocolate bars taste like with just sugar? Well, if you’re an American born after 1982 then it’s unlikely that you’ve tasted these delicious, yummy bars with just plan old sugar...
View ArticleNew Study Shows Poor Sleep Habits are Linked to Dementia
Do you continually wake up throughout the night disrupting your sleep? Does your partner regularly inform you of your loud snoring habits that effectively wake them up, too? If so then perhaps now is...
View Article5 Trillion Pieces of Trash Littering the Ocean
The world’s oceans have become a dumpster site as a new study released notes that five trillion pieces of trash are situated in the world’s oceans. Although it has been reported on the astronomical...
View ArticleBaby Contracts Measles, California Daycare Center Shut Down
Are Canada and the United States in the midst of a measles outbreak? That’s the question that some officials are mulling over after it was reported of another measles case. Again, the latest case is...
View ArticleUK Teenage Pregnancy at Lowest Levels Since 1969
The United Kingdom is making significant headway when it comes to the reduction in the number of teenage pregnancies across England and Wales. According to data published by the Office for National...
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