Evie Fordham A New York county implemented a ban on unvaccinated children in public places Wednesday amid a record-setting measles outbreak that prompted a state of emergency declaration. People under 18 who have not been vaccinated against measles are barred from places including malls, restaurants, schools and even houses of worship in Rockland County for…
Evie Fordham The White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s staff are testing out a partnership to fight high drug prices for a domestic policy win, White House sources said according to Politico Tuesday. The staff-level talks are being overseen by Domestic Policy Council Director Joe Grogan and the Department of Health and Human Services….
Evie Fordham Certain medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may increase the risk of psychosis in young adults, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine Thursday found. The study found that teens and young people taking amphetamines like Adderall and Vyvanse were at a higher risk of developing psychosis than…
A UK woman passed out mid-oral sex after an imminent orgasm caused her to have a small stroke. The unnamed 44-year-old was enjoying intimate attention from her lover when she unexpectedly lost consciousness for two or three minutes. The man rushed his lover to the hospital fearing she had an episode. When the couple arrived…
Evie Fordham on March 11, 2019 A judge gave a Kansas doctor life in federal prison Friday for his role in 32-year-old Nick McGovern’s opioid overdose death in 2015. Judge J. Thomas Marten told Dr. Steven Henson, 57, he seemed “numb to what you were doing over time” in illegally selling opioids to patients, including McGovern,…
Evie Fordham The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved esketamine nasal spray Tuesday to treat people with depression who have not found relief with traditional antidepressants. “There has been a long-standing need for additional effective treatments for treatment-resistant depression, a serious and life-threatening condition,” Dr. Tiffany Farchione of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and…
Cannabidiol, more commonly known by its acronym CBD, is one of the 113 cannabinoids found in a cannabis plant. Legally accepted CBD comes from the hemp plant and the products contain less than 0.3% of THC in them. People use CBD products for a number of health-related reasons like chronic pain, anxiety and stress,…
It seems like it is impossible to log on to social media nowadays and not see people arguing over whether or not vaccines should be mandatory. Memes poking fun at anti-vaccine parents and children have flooded the internet, and the conversation on this topic has filled the web’s comment sections. So, what is the libertarian view…
Joshua Gill on February 7, 2019 An Australian study found that researchers, clinicians and English language scientific journals have published data provided by illegal, forced organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience. The study’s author called for the retraction of over 400 scientific papers allegedly tainted with such data, calling the journals and researchers complicit in…
by Michael Autery The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, or the US government. On November 20th, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman ruled that a 1996 federal law banning female genital…