Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has been told to talk less about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Yesterday, she did just that and gave an amazing speech about people with disabilities.
She was introduced by a...
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In ?The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?? (New York Review of Books, 2011), Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief...
Last night, I told you that the obituary for Colleen McCullough that ran in Friday's edition of The Australian was arguably one of the most sexist items ever to appear in a newspaper. Whoever wrote...
Two law professors and ?the assistant director of a vaccine program at a children's hospital?recently wrote?a research paper that makes an interesting?proposal: if a family chooses not to vaccinate their child or children, and does...
Karma is a lovely thing. For instance, had Martin "Pharma Bro" Shkreli not been brazen enough to gouge the prices of not one, but two critical drugs, we would have never known that he was...
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle, permanently blocked part of Florida's latest attempt to cut funding for Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. The law was signed in by Governor Rick Scott and would...
Many years ago, I read a news story about a man who left his children?in the car with the windows rolled up so that he could go look for mushrooms in the woods. Both were...
You may not know this, but May is a special month. It is Mental Health Awareness Month. We need this whole month to raise awareness of these diseases. It is 2016, and we are still...
In 2011 the Huffington Post reported that 12.7-million people discover they have cancer each year. Also, an additional 7.6-million people die from cancer each year. Unfortunately, the numbers increase each year, and these numbers represent...
There is a great dichotomy in the forum of public opinion surrounding the topic of a woman's ideal body size.? There is a continually raging debate about who's too skinny, who's too fat, who lost...
New study proves that people who have faith in religion suppresses the analytical portions of the brain. Before you close this story, hear me out.
The dictionary definition of faith is "strong belief and trust in...
Thinking back on my schooling in Texas, I am reminded of just how sparse talk about human sexuality was.
5th Grade: "You'll get hair everywhere and your voice will get deeper. Now, here's a stick of Right...
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, and New York City’s Human Rights Commission, have made it a violation not to serve pregnant women alcohol in bars. If that's what they want, of course.
The new set...
By now, you've probably seen the strange note that Donald Trump's longtime doctor, Harold Bornstein, wrote last winter to proclaim the Donald a model of health. It didn't come as a result of a detailed physical. Nope,...
Two years ago, First Lady Michelle Obama appeared on the Jimmy Fallon show to introduce Mom Dancing. To our delight, she came back for part two!
From BuzzFeed:
On Thursday night, in honor of the five-year anniversary...
A new website shows exactly how much various substances shave off of a person's life. These charts from Treatment4Addiction.com are pretty self-explanatory -- and terrifying.
We've heard for years how much time cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs...
You probably could have predicted it.
The LGBT community has known for years that Donald Trump is a selfish, money obsessed, egomaniac. They've known for a long time that he is a danger to them and to every...
Public health officials in California now confirm that a major measles outbreak linked to Disney's theme parks near Anaheim has sickened 32 people in four states. It is believed to be the largest outbreak from...
Bacon enthusiasts everywhere have dropped to their knees and cried out this morning as the World Health Organization (WHO) publicly acknowledged that processed meats, including sausage, ham, hot dogs, and bacon, cause cancer. With this...
