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The pro-life group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust filed a formal complaint with the Washington, D.C., Department of Public Health against D.C. late-term abortion doctor Cesare Santangelo. Santangelo performs late-term abortions at the Washington Surgi Clinic, which is located near the George Washington University campus. It was outside his facility that two local pro-life activists recovered the remains of five fully formed aborted children in 2022. At a Thursday press conference, local pro-lifers unveiled a website, HurtBySurgi.com, where women who have been injured by Santangelo can submit the details of their situation and have it reviewed by lawyers free of...

“It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs."President Donald Trump issued a Labor Day appeal for Pfizer to share its COVID-19 vaccine data with the CDC and the public immediately. Trump said on Truth Social that Pfizer had shown him impressive numbers on its COVID vaccine, but that they had not made them publicly available. His call for transparency comes after the White House fired CDC Director Susan Monarez last week following her clash with Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the approval of COVID vaccines. “It is...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in US men, excluding skin cancer, and the second-leading cause of male cancer deaths, after lung cancer. One in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and about 3% of men will die from it. Early-stage prostate cancer often has no warning signs because the tumor is small and hasn’t spread — a PSA test can help detect potential problems before symptoms develop. September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Here’s what you should know about updates to screening guidelines, advances in treatment and the one diet that may help prevent it.

The “Encino Man” actor, 57, revealed this week that he recently went under the knife to have a tumor removed from his pancreas — a shock diagnosis that came without any warning signs. “Instinct played a huge role in this,” Shore said of the trendy medical test he took on a whim, which detected the hidden growth. “You never know what the f—k is inside your body.” About three months ago, the funnyman decided to undergo a full-body scan — a high-tech, head-to-toe checkup that’s gaining traction among celebrities and wellness influencers. “They check for tumors, cancer, aneurysms, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s,...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell ABC News the agency has descended into turmoil as senior officials offer their resignations over the Trump administration's effort to oust the agency's new director. A dozen CDC staffers, speaking on the condition of anonymity, described the mood inside the agency to ABC News, including some who said Thursday that the last 24 hours have left them questioning how much longer they should remain in their roles amid fears that the agency is, in the words of one staffer, "changing from a trusted scientific organization to a personal dictatorship" run...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just reported a noticeable increase in COVID test positivity rates across the United States in data posted Friday, Aug. 29. The latest numbers arrive just days before Labor Day weekend, a peak period for travel and gatherings. Test positivity climbed to 11.2 percent for the week ending Saturday, Aug. 23, up from 10.2 percent the previous week, according to updated CDC figures. Nearly half the country now faces a test positivity rate of at least 10 percent. Emergency room visits for COVID also rose slightly, with 1.5 percent of visits resulting...

A Texas man was arrested last Wednesday after he allegedly threatened to decapitate a staffer of President Trump and later kill their entire family over a series of chilling voicemail messages. Thomas Austria Crouse, of Austin, was cuffed after he was traced to a series of jarring voicemails left to an unidentified Trump staffer on Aug. 25, the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas announced. Crouse allegedly told the staffer — whose name was not released by the attorney’s office — that he would find them and chop off their head before slaughtering their family, according to...

LONDON—For the first time, populist or far-right parties are leading the polls in Europe’s three biggest countries of the U.K., France, and Germany, the latest sign of growing voter discontent in much of the continent following years of high immigration and inflation. Far-right and anti-immigration parties have already entered government in countries such as Italy, Finland and the Netherlands. But this year marks the first time that they have been ahead in Europe’s biggest economies at the same time. That could provoke a period of political turbulence in all three countries, even if national elections are likely still a few...

Guttmacher Institute research from the Monthly Abortion Provision Study shows that there were approximately 642,700 medication abortions in the United States in 2023, accounting for 63% of all abortions in the formal health care system. This is an increase from 2020, when medication abortions accounted for 53% of all abortions. The two-drug combination of mifepristone and misoprostol is the most common medication abortion regimen offered by US providers, and decades of research have established that medication abortion using mifepristone is highly safe and effective... The medication abortion counts for 2023 do not include self-managed medication abortions that take place outside...

A diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, found predominantly in fish oils, may help ward off the development of shortsightedness (myopia) in children, while a high intake of saturated fats, found in foods such as butter, palm oil, and red meat, may boost the risk of the condition, finds research. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω-3 PUFAs), which can only be obtained from the diet, are thought to improve/prevent several chronic eye conditions. The researchers drew on 1,005 Chinese 6–8-year-olds, randomly recruited from the population-based Hong Kong Children Eye Study. In all, around a quarter of the children (276; 27.5%) had...

Estimating the number of people over 20 years old that Canada expects to die through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) over a 20-year period requires analyzing available data, trends, and projections while acknowledging the limitations of speculative forecasting. MAID, legalized in Canada in 2016 under Bill C-14 and expanded in 2021 under Bill C-7, allows eligible adults (18 and older) with grievous and irremediable medical conditions to receive assisted death. Since the question specifies "over 20 years," I’ll assume it refers to a 20-year period (e.g., 2023–2043, as 2023 is the most recent year with comprehensive data) and focus on...

Ben Arnet, who was the Sports Director at KOMU 8, reportedly passed away at the age of 43 on Thursday. KOMU 8 shared in a late-night post that Arnett had passed away at the age of 43 on August 28, 2025... Arnet will be remembered as a passionate journalist, friend and father who pushed those around him to do their best and succeed at whatever they set their minds to. He was admired by his students, friends, colleagues and family and will be dearly missed. Arnet leaves behind a loving wife, Nicole, and daughter, Lyla. KRCG 13 offers our hearts...

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@RandPaul No medical reason to give newborns Hep B vaccine if mother is not infected. All mothers who deliver in a hospital are tested. This “scientist’s” fetish for vaccines not supported by the data

Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, who resigned on Wednesday, warned of the forthcoming “ideologic direction” of public health in an interview with Martha Raddatz on ABC’s This Week.“From my vantage point, as a doctor who’s taken the Hippocratic oath, I only see harm coming,” Daskalakis told Raddatz. “I may be wrong, but based on what I’m seeing, based on what I’ve heard with the new members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, or ACIP, they’re really moving in an ideologic direction where they want to see the...

The “trans woman” shooter who murdered two school kids and wounded 17 others at a Catholic Mass in Minnesota confessed in his journal that he “was tired of being trans.” The revelation that Robin Westman, given name Robert, was a crazed maniac who severely needed psychiatric help shows up in the journal, the New York Post revealed today. He posted it to YouTube before he began firing into Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. The journal also reveals that he fantasized about murdering school children. The SchootingWestman fired into the church through stained glass windows at about 8:30 a.m. He murdered...

@WallStreetApes Robert F Kennedy Jr announced US Taxpayers are spending $72,900,000 PER DAY for soda and candy for people on EBT Food Stamps That’s $26,608,500,000 per year just on CANDY AND SODA RFK Jr “We spend $405 million a day on food stamps. That's what the taxpayer is spending. 10% is going to sugary drinks. Another 8% is going to candies. So we are poisoning 60% of our kids who are getting food stamps.” “The poorest kids, the kids who can least afford to get sick, and we are poisoning them. We are deeming them diabetes, and then we're paying...

A beloved Mississippi news anchor — who had only recently joined her television station — died suddenly at age 42, her devastated colleagues announced. Celeste Wilson, a weekend anchor for WAPT 16 in Jackson, tragically died of a heart attack. “Though Celeste had only been with us a short time, we were already touched by her professionalism, warmth, and dedication to the work of journalism,” her network, which also shared the tragic news on air, penned in its announcement Wednesday. “All of us here at 16 WAPT are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and our thoughts are with Celeste’s family...

Spaceflight has a broad impact on the way our body functions — and that includes our reproductive systems. Indeed, to get a better idea of how future pregnancies and new generations born to humans beyond Earth will be affected, scientists need to examine how well our reproductive germ cells and stem cells respond to potentially harmful factors, like radiation and microgravity. Researchers from Kyoto University in Japan did just this: They froze the spermatogonial stem cells of mice through a process called cryopreservation, then kept them on the International Space Station (ISS) for six months. Once back on Earth, researchers...

Many U.S. beaches face Labor Day swim advisories due to unsafe fecal bacteria levels, posing health risks like illness, rashes, and nausea for swimmers.Thousands of Americans will head to beaches for one last summer splash this Labor Day weekend, but taking a dip might be out of the question: Many of the beaches will caution against swimming because of unsafe levels of fecal contamination. Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to Ogunquit, Maine, have been under advisories warning about water quality this week because of elevated levels of bacteria associated with fecal waste. The advisories typically discourage beachgoers from going in...