London Free Press Keep an eye out for ticks, health unit cautionsLondon Free PressThe number of ticks submitted this year to the Middlesex-London Health Unit by people to rule out Lyme disease has more than doubled compared with last year. Since January, 119 ticks have been presented to the health unit for inspection, compared with … Read more
WSB Atlanta Dads say these words more if they have little girlsFuturity: Research NewsFathers—and their brain responses—differ with girls than with boys, including how attentive they are, the types of language they use, and the play they engage in. A new study is the first to combine brain scans of fathers with behavioral data …Study: … Read more
Washington Post Newspaper: Ohio had more than 4000 overdose deaths in 2016ABC NewsSteel compartments in a morgue are pictured in this undated stock photo. A newspaper survey of Ohio county coroners has found more than 4,000 people died from drug overdoses last year in a state among the hardest hit by a heroin and opioid …Ohio … Read more
South African Broadcasting Corporation Africa: New Ebola Cases May Show Effect of Improved Alerts, Global Official SaysAllAfrica.comThe rapid reaction by the Democratic Republic of Congo to recent cases of Ebola showed lessons were learned from earlier outbreaks, a top global health official said on Friday, stressing the need to factor health into disaster risk plans. … Read more
(Natural News) The recent terrorist bombing that reportedly took place at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, U.K., has once again brought shock and awe to the world. Media outrage over the incident has reached a crescendo, particularly with circulating images of eight-year-old Saffie Rose Roussos, one of the younger concertgoers who’s said to have… … Read more
(Natural News) The incoherent way that Facebook chooses to police the content published on its social media platform is getting stranger and more controversial by the day. New reports indicate that the tech giant will no longer block videos and imagery of extreme violence, including gory death and abortion, because doing so represents a form… … Read more
(Natural News) A recent survey revealed that scanxiety, a phenomenon where expectant mothers undergo multiple ultrasounds, now affects nearly one in three pregnant women in the U.K. Current guidelines in the U.S. and the U.K. call for just two ultrasounds during the 12th and 20th week of pregnancy to monitor the child’s condition. “For the last… … Read more
(Natural News) Beginning in the early 2000s, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security has been building a searchable, national DNA database as part of their police information project, Golden Shield. As of 2015, the “Forensic Science DNA Database System” has amassed over 44 million “miscellaneous data entries” from more than 40 million individuals. The database… … Read more
(Natural News) A new update to Twitter’s privacy policy sees the end of a longstanding pledge to protect user privacy by the firm. Twitter, which has never been profitable, is now taking a more proactive approach toward boosting revenue and it’s coming at the expense of its loyal users. In an effort to improve the… … Read more
NDTV Lack Of Sleep May Cause Your Brain To ‘Eat’ Itself: StudyNDTVThis suggests that sleep loss can trigger astrocytes to start breaking down more of the brain’s connections and their debris, reported ‘New Scientist’. Health | Press Trust of India | Updated: May 28, 2017 18:27 IST. by Taboola by Taboola · Sponsored …Scientists shocked … Read more