In a landmark move, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed a plan to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars in the United States. The agency also announced Thursday that it will impose new restrictions on the sales of flavored e-cigarettes in retail stores, limiting them to closed-off areas that are inaccessible to minors. […]
Category: Health
Nurse Admits To Murdering Over 100 Patients
A German nurse has admitted murdering 100 patients by giving them drug-induced heart attacks so he could bring them back to life. Niels Hoegel is already serving a life sentence for two murders and was in court today to answer charges that he killed scores more while working at two hospitals in Germany. The serial killer […]
McDonald’s Brings Back The Famous McRib For Limited Time
McDonald’s has announced that its beloved McRib is back after nearly a year off the menu. The sandwich features a boneless pork patty, barbecue sauce, onions and pickles, is now available at more than 9,000 participating restaurants across the country. “While McDonald’s has ushered in many new items this year – such as fresh beef in our […]
Trump To Legally Narrow Gender Identity To Sex At Birth
The Trump administration may be considering redefining gender as an unchangable condition determined solely by a person’s biology, according to a leaked memo draft obtained by The New York Times. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services argued in the drafted memo, which has not been seen by NBC News, that the government needs […]
Flu Season Killed 80,000 Americans Last Year
Tens of thousands of American deaths last winter are believed to have been caused by the flu and its related complications, according to government officials, making it the most severe in at least four decades. “We lost 80,000 people last year to the flu,” Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control […]
Food Poisoning At McDonalds Has Affected 163 People Nationwide
The number of people sickened by tainted McDonald’s salads has jumped to 163 in 10 states, and three of the victims have been hospitalized. The fast-food chain said it has removed the lettuce blend from Fresh Express’ Streamwood, Illinois, facility and replaced it with a new supply. The number of people sickened by tainted McDonald’s […]
German Man Accused Of Murdering 21 People Over 2 Decades
Authorities in Germany launched a probe Wednesday into a string of 21 deaths over nearly two decades after the arrest of a man suspected of trying to poison a co-worker’s sandwich. The 56-year-old man, named only as Klaus O, was detained back in May after surveillance video showed him opening a colleague’s lunchbox and putting […]
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Pro-Life Clinics First Right Amendments
The Supreme Court ruled California cannot require so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” to provide information about the availability of abortion services elsewhere in the state, a move in favor of anti-abortion clinics that claimed the state law violated their First Amendment rights. The case, brought by two “crisis pregnancy centers,” challenged a California law called the […]
Poop Transplants Could Save Over 25,000 Lives A Year
Poop transplants work as well as antibiotics to treat a common and deadly cause of diarrhea, and perhaps even better, researchers reported Saturday. Their small and unusual study suggests that doctors should try fecal transplants right off when patients in the hospital get infected with Clostridium difficile, a frequent cause of diarrhea in frail and […]
Romaine Lettuce Claims 5th Life Due To E. Coli
Four more people have died from eating romaine lettuce tainted with E. coli, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday. That brings the total death count from the recent E. coli outbreak to five. In the past two weeks, an additional 25 people have also become ill from eating contaminated lettuce, the […]
Obamacare Repeal? Congress Taking Another Shot
Congressional Republicans appear poised to take another shot at repealing and replacing ObamaCare — this, during a critical, election year in which Democrats are blaming the GOP for escalating health insurance costs. A coalition of conservative groups have for months purportedly been working behind the scenes to draft a measure that would pass in Congress, […]
CDC Says It’s Now Safe To Eat Romaine Lettuce
Any romaine lettuce being sold now is almost certainly not from the Yuma, Arizona region and so unlikely to carry the E. coli bacteria strain that’s been making people sick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. The outbreak has made 172 people sick in 32 states, and one person has died, the CDC […]