This spring, I told you about Ryan Hoffman, a former star offensive lineman at my alma mater, the University of North Carolina. His life after graduating from college in 1998--two years before I graduated--went downhill...
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Antibiotic resistance has been in the works starting from the day Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin in 1928 ? microorganisms have been onto it, learning how to fool the more than one hundred different compounds scientist...
A surrogate for the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Amy Kremer, was on CNN talking about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's health. She is claiming that Hillary Clinton has some kind of brain injury.
Kremer said:
"I...
Anxiety disorders are the most common?psychiatric disorders in the U.S., with 19 million adults affected. The psychological and physical (yes, physical) symptoms can be devastating and can affect every aspect of a person's life. Here...
Since President-elect Donald Trump wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), women will likely lose access to free contraceptives. Many women are rushing to get intra-uterine devices (IUDs), or they are stocking up on...
When we have children, we imagine the life that lies ahead of them. We imagine who they will become, what life they will live, and the future accomplishments they will achieve. We never imagine that...
We here in real America should be growing accustomed to wearing masks in public, avoiding crowds, social distancing, and rubbing our hands raw with prodigious amounts of hand sanitizer.
We here in real America have to...
The Norweigan University of Science and Technology released a study recently on the relationship between use of psychedelic drugs and incidence of mental illness. The study now shows definitive proof that tripping does not ...
As of Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump's average approval rating, as computed by FiveThirtyEight, stands at 38.8 percent--the lowest on record for a president at this stage in his administration. But the only reason it's even...
Last week, New York became the first state to institute a tuition-free college plan since state schools nationwide ended the practice in the 1960s.
Now, a mere two signatures are all that's required to cause New Yorkers to stand up...
Colorado has a referendum to put on their November ballot. They are looking to replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) with a state wide, single-payer health insurance.
ColoradoCare will offer comprehensive health care with everything from...
Texas Republicans are obsessed with liberty. Sid Miller is one of those Republicans, and as state agriculture commissioner, he believes the state's ban on fried food and soda machines in Texas schools is wrong because...
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The first federal guidelines (ever) regarding circumcision have been drafted. After seven years of work, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have released a guideline draft that says health insurers should pay...
In such a technologically savvy world, text messaging has become a faceted form of communication, and now it may have found a home in medicine. Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center and the Mailman School...
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...
Two years ago, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told CNN Donald Trump’s isolated, erratic, and delusional behavior was presenting a dangerous situation.
Raskin, therefore, supported a bill to establish a bipartisan panel with Vice President Mike Pence to invoke...
Processed and sugar loaded foods have plagued our school cafeterias for decades, helping in assisting youth obesity and poor eating habits. Schools all over the country are beginning to take a bigger look at the...
This past spring, while COVID-19 ripped through mostly Democratic states like New York, Washington, and New Jersey, the American South had yet to feel its full brunt.
Later that season, though, into the summer, everything began...
