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Sometimes ancient remedies are the best, even if they make you a little squeamish. Maggots are being used again but in a new way: to save lives, limbs and money. Some doctors think the larvae could revolutionize wound care, which costs $10 to 15 billion a year in the U.S. It’s a problem that will grow, with our growing diabetes population. On the Ca-Hil farm out in the small town of Wild Peach in Brazoria County, it is another day. Owner Randy Harang is prepping the fields to bale hay, but for the 59-year-old, it is not just business as...

It’s nice to think of modern medicine, like modern war, as high-tech, almost impersonal. Our medications are engineered on a molecular level. Keyhole surgery, computerized imaging, and robotics promise magical, almost noninvasive modes of health maintenance. So why are doctors using leeches again? The medicinal leech has three jaws and a hundred teeth. With them it saws into the skin and injects anesthetics to avoid disturbing its meal, chemicals that dilate the blood vessels to get a better flow of the good stuff, and anticoagulants to stop the blood from clotting and impeding its feast. Then it starts to suck....

Probably the best reason to wash your hands regularly is that the world is covered in feces. New York City is particularly gross, and some of the most shared surfaces of this spend-friendly city are automated teller machines. Quite appropriately, the good scientists at New York University tested them for microbes. The study, published in the journal mSphere, included a hundredsome samples from eight neighborhoods across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, ranging from midtown to Flushing to Inwood to Ozone Park. “ATM surfaces, potentially retaining microbial signatures of human inhabitants … are interesting from both a biodiversity perspective and a public...

One of the biggest tests of the incoming administration’s commitment to the preborn will be whether it investigates and prosecutes Planned Parenthood for its criminal activities relating to the for-profit sale of aborted babies’ organs. The Obama Administration’s reaction to revelations was to take the abortion giant’s spin at face value, with top administration officials admitting they didn’t bother to watch more than “snippets” of the Center for Medical Progress’s explosive undercover videos, Attorney General Loretta Lynch showing no interest whatsoever in doing her job and investigating the evidence, and President Barack Obama continuing to maintain that Planned Parenthood deserved...

FULL TITLE: America's heroin epidemic laid bare outside McDonald's: Shocking footage emerges of the moment two men had to be rescued after overdosing in a parking lot A disturbing video has emerged showing the extent of the country's heroin epidemic, with two men having to be rescued after overdosing in a McDonald's parking lot in Ohio. The video, taken on a cellphone and posted to Facebook Live, has been viewed more than 50,000 times following the incident in Sandusky on Thursday afternoon. According to police, a group of people found one man passed out behind the wheel of a car,...

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Assistant State Health Officer Dr. Karen Landers told news outlets on Thursday that the Alabama Department of Public Health has suspended the caterer’s permit because of the outbreak at the Saturday wedding, which was attended by about 150 people. Officials did not immediately release specific details about the wedding, the caterer that prepared the meal, or exactly what food caused people to fall ill with salmonella gastroenteritis.

Escalating numbers of mumps infections being reported nationwide There are now 31 cases at University of Missouri, 27 more being tested Last week, State University of New York reported outbreak from swimteam Numerous Arkansas towns reported 427 mumps infections this summer Harvard University also battling an outbreak Mumps is an infection of the salivary gland, preventable by MMR vaccine The highly infectious virus is spread by saliva on cups, cutlery, plates Many do not experience symptoms but mumps can be devastating (copywrite restriction pervents further information; more information avaiable at source website)

The young mom whose ex-con husband gunned down a Bronx NYPD sergeant said the tragedy has left her completely shattered, but she is desperately trying to hold it together for the sake of her sweet little boy. In a wide-ranging, and at times tearful, two-hour interview with The Post, Tia Rosales opened up about how the events of Nov. 4 have torn her world apart. Rosales said she feels devastated for the slain officer’s widow, Lisa, and sons Austin, 4, and Joseph, 3 — and fears her own son, 3-year-old Tony, will forever be known as the son of a...

Listening to the news commentaries over the last couple weeks and reading op-eds in our nation’s papers, one couldn’t have missed the discussion over the “silent Trump voters”, those who may be in huge numbers but who don’t want to tell pollsters they are supporting Trump. These silent Trump voters showed up big time last night, obliterating the electoral map. You know who else comprised an enormous silent majority? Pro-life voters. Yesterday, Election Day, the most-searched term according to Google Trends in much of the nation was “abortion.” The A-word that wasn’t even mentioned in presidential debates until the very...

Indiana Right to Life has discovered that $200 human brains from aborted babies were purchased by Indiana University (IU) in May 2016. Part of the reason IU opposed statewide abortion restrictions and sued the state of Indiana was because IU wanted to continue its purchases of aborted baby body parts. Back then, IU said that a new Indiana abortion law would hinder necessary medical research. The Indy Star reported in May: IU said the new law…is vague and “will institute sweeping and unconstitutional prohibitions.” The impact on IU’s neuroscience research, according to the university’s seven-page complaint, could be “dramatic” and...

A Rutgers University professor was taken to a New York City hospital for a psychiatric evaluation after university police claimed he made threats to kill white people, authorities said Wednesday. But Kevin Allred said the comments he made in class and on Twitter in the days after Donald Trump won the presidential election were just rhetorical political statements. He claims school officials were trying to intimidate him for exercising his free speech rights. New York police said they were contacted by Rutgers police about the alleged threats. Allred, who is white, was taken to the hospital Tuesday night and released...

Her doe eyes filled with fear as Jack Nicholson chops his way through a door remains one of Hollywood horror movies' most iconic scenes, but this star is a heartbreakingly long way from her glory days. Shelley Duvall's struggles with mental illness has been revealed for the first time in a new interview with Dr. Phil. In a sneak peek of an upcoming show released Wednesday, the Eighties actress is almost unrecognizable.

A whole new way to fight antibiotic resistance.Scientists have discovered that Tasmanian devil milk contains an arsenal of antimicrobial compounds that can kill some of the most deadly bacterial and fungal infections known to science - including golden staph. Tasmanian devils were found to produce six different types of these antimicrobial compounds - humans produce just one - and scientists were able to successfully synthesise them in the lab to test their effectiveness against a number of drug-resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens. When tested against 25 different bacterial and six fungal strains, the six varieties of antimicrobial compounds were found...

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I am frankly shocked this information is not making front page news right now. Monsanto will do anything to bury this story… and as of right now, it’s working. Not a single mainstream media outlet has covered this appalling new report that shows millions of people being poisoned by a chemical that does not belong in our food. This chemical is ending up in processed foods like Cheerios, Ritz Crackers, and Oreos and being consumed by humans across the world. The health of millions of people is on the line and this news must go mainstream! That’s why I’m calling on every single one of you...

Former president Jimmy Carter announced Sunday that he’s stopping treatment for his brain cancer at the ripe age of 91. Inspiring as his story is, it’s hard not to wonder: how’d he do it? Turns out Carter was being treated with Keytruda, a new and highly promising immunotherapy drug that was approved not long after Carter was diagnosed. In August 2015, Carter announced that his aggressive melanoma — a deadly form of skin cancer — had spread to his brain, and it seemed pretty clear that he had only a few weeks left to live. Still, he underwent treatment at...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force on Sunday issued new guidance for the use of cholesterol-busting statin drugs. The report greatly expands the universe of people who should be screened to see if they need the medication to everyone over age 40 regardless of whether they have a history of cardiovascular disease. The recommendations also support the position of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, which in 2013 radically shifted their advice from suggesting that doctors focus on the level of a patient’s low-density lipoproteins (LDL) or “bad cholesterol” to looking at a more comprehensive picture...

Two years ago, Teddy fell down a Topanga Canyon hillside and suffered a traumatic brain injury. It left him with a gaping hole in his skull. “This was a remarkable defect,” his doctor, Dr. Mark Urata, said. “It was close to 50 percent of his skull that was gone.” Doctors tried a surgery to repair the injury, but it was unsuccessful. So Teddy was sent home and forced to wear a helmet everywhere he went for more than a year. ... That’s all changed now after an innovative surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The 1st-grader last month received a...