CBS News Missouri woman dies after contracting rare tick-borne Bourbon virusCBS NewsTamela Wilson worked at a state park for more than 10 years, so she wasn’t fazed when she spotted ticks on her skin. She simply picked them off without giving it a second thought. The 58-year-old didn’t worry about contracting a tick-borne illness …NY … Read more
NBCNews.com The Feds Are Failing Mentally Ill Inmates, Investigators SayNBCNews.comThe federal Bureau of Prisons is doing a poor job of treating and keeping track of inmates who suffer from mental illness, often placing them in isolation for long periods of time, a practice that can exacerbate their problems, investigators have found.Watchdog says sick federal inmates … Read more
The Verge A new place to share GIFs: the DNA of living bacteriaThe VergeTo the left are a series of frames showing the mare “Anna G.” galloping, which were encoded into nucleotides and captured sequentially over time by the CRISPR adaptation system in living bacteria. To the right are the frames after multiple generations … … Read more
CNN What to know about snortable chocolateCNN(CNN) “Snorting chocolate” has made waves among partygoers in Europe over the past couple of years. Now, it’s arrived in the US in the form of Coco Loko, a new product marketed as a stimulant and stress reducer.Morford: WARNING, do not snort powdered chocolate (unless you want to)SFGateYou Can … Read more
USA TODAY The US is one of the world’s laziest countries — and it’s making us fatUSA TODAYMany Americans are downright lazy. And it’s making us fat. That’s among the findings of a study by Stanford University researchers using step-counters installed in most smartphones to track the walking activity of about 700,000 people in 46 … Read more
(Natural News) Climate change “mad scientists” from Harvard have been given the green light to pursue a geoengineering experiment that will expel aerosols into the atmosphere to block out the sun in a deranged effort to halt so-called “global warming.” The initial experiment is small, but if it is deemed a success, it could be… … Read more
(Natural News) Chemotherapy has long been considered an effective treatment against cancer. However, a recent study has suggested otherwise: according to researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, chemotherapy may actually help spread the disease. For the purposes of their study, the researchers analyzed the effects of chemotherapy on patients who were diagnosed with… … Read more
(Natural News) Ever heard of the 250,000 cotton farmers in central India who took their own lives after being manipulated by promises made by Monsanto? Monsanto claimed to be able to put an end to famine and promised unheard of riches and crop prosperity if the farmers would switch from their conventional farming methods to the… … Read more
(Natural News) Last year, it was all about failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s strange health episodes that many argued was a disqualifying factor in her bid for the White House. This year, it’s House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) who’s taken the stage for her seeming inability to focus and form complete sentences without pausing… … Read more
(Natural News) On the early morning of Aug. 26, 2016, 20-year-old Abbey Parkes suffered from a cardiac arrest at her home in Tunstall, Staffordshire. Her live-in boyfriend, Liam Grocott, immediately contacted emergency services and paramedics found her slumped in the living room, unconscious and not breathing. After an hour and a half in the emergency… … Read more