Month: November 2019

There is no exam to verify virginity, medical experts say, and the attempt violates a woman’s rights. View original article Contributor:

The most dangerous antibiotic-resistant strains of E. coli are transmitted not through food but through contact with human feces. View original article Contributor:

Since areas that dictate personality rather than memory are the first to suffer, people with the disease usually land on a therapist’s couch long before finding their way to a neurologist. View original article Contributor:

The lawsuit accused the pharmaceutical company of profiting billions of dollars off taxpayer research without paying royalties. View original article Contributor:

More millennials in the U.S. are suffering from chronic health problems, potentially restraining the lifetime economic potential of a generation of young adults. A spike in conditions like depression, hypertension and high cholesterol among younger people could increase health-care costs and lower incomes in coming years, according to a report Wednesday from the Blue Cross … Read more

Nobody has to score Hershey’s kisses on the street. Nobody has to smuggle Pringles across the country hidden in the wheel well of a car. And if you’re paying $100 for a gram of Coke, you’re definitely being overcharged. But that doesn’t mean that the life-sustaining substances we come into the world loving and couldn’t … Read more

It’s been a rough fall for Juul. After weeks of intensifying scrutiny from federal regulators, resulting in plans to pull many of its products off the market entirely, the company was hit on Oct. 29 with an explosive lawsuit filed by a former financial executive at the company, who alleged that Juul knowingly sold at … Read more