Fremont County officials are urging vigilance after fleas tested positive for plague in the town of Florence. The fleas were collected and tested by the county’s health department last week. The county […]
By now most people know the basic facts, at least what are called “facts” as reported by the mainstream media regarding the Tennessee mass shooting. According to reports, last Thursday twenty-four-year-old Muhammad […]
When I lived in Ecuador, I was warned about the pollen from the flower of a beautiful tree. The pollen is called “Devil’s Breath,” and when a tiny amount is blown into […]
Obtaining high-quality, chemical-free food that’s actually grown in the U.S. — not just sold here — remains a challenge, and increasingly so as much of the so-called “food” grown on U.S. soil […]
A massive movement to defund Planned Parenthood is sweeping the country in response to a video showing the group’s Senior Director of Medical Services explaining how Planned Parenthood harvests aborted baby organs […]
A leaked document shows nearly one-third of the 847,000 veterans in the Department of Veteran Affairs’ backlog died while waiting for treatment, amounting to more than 238,000 patients, according to documents obtained […]
Six years after end-of-life planning nearly derailed development of the Affordable Care Act amid charges of “death panels,” the Obama administration has revived a proposal to reimburse physicians for talking with their […]
Health insurance companies around the country are seeking rate increases of 20 percent to 40 percent or more, saying their new customers under the Affordable Care Act turned out to be sicker […]
Jim Carrey is blasting the governor of California after he signed into law one of the nation’s strictest immunization laws. Jerry Brown signed the bill on Tuesday after it was passed by […]
California lawmakers on Monday sent the governor a contentious bill that would impose one of the strictest school vaccination laws in the country in reaction to a recent measles outbreak at Disneyland. […]
Yes, physical inactivity has its price tags. It is linked to the development of chronic health problems like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, depression, dementia and cancer. It can make us […]
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s willingness to make stuff up, Obamacare has been saved once again. In order to save Obamacare from utter disaster, Chief Justice Roberts essentially rewrote the law. If […]
Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, a Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing record on his smartphone, to capture the instructions his doctor would […]
Charleston shooter Dylann Storm Roof was reportedly taking a drug that has been linked with sudden outbursts of violence, fitting the pattern of innumerable other mass shooters who were on or had […]
When it comes to raising our kids, have we completely failed as a society? If you spend much time with them, you quickly realize that the next generation of Americans is woefully […]
Most Americans are deathly afraid to go to the hospital these days – and it is because of the immense pain that it will cause to their wallets. If you want to […]
In an apparent effort to further depersonalize medicine, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding research into an implantable microchip capable of digitally monitoring the health of patients and reporting their vital […]
The widely reported bird flu outbreak that authorities say has already resulted in the slaughter of some 45-plus million chickens and turkeys is completely decimating the poultry industry throughout the U.S. In […]
Local businesses are now seeing a significant rise in the price of eggs as a result of avian flu sweeping through henhouses in the Midwest in recent months. Since December, the U.S. […]
Avian flu is devastating the egg industry across the Midwestern U.S. So far, the virulent strain of H5N2 has been detected at 201 farms in 15 states, triggering the destruction of 44.7 […]
According to Gallup, America is now fatter than it has ever been before. But how can this possibly be? After all, Americans spend an astounding 60 billion dollars a year on weight […]
If you are an American, there is a 1 in 3 chance that you will get cancer during your lifetime. If you are a man, the odds are closer to 1 in […]
As the Fed celebrated positive GDP growth in the third and fourth quarters of 2014, cash-strapped Americans scratched their head in disbelief. “My health insurance costs are killing me!” they screamed. That […]
U.S. public schools have become houses of horror for many special needs students. According to the Virginia Commission on Youth, special needs students account for only 12 percent of all public school […]
