West Nile Virus Plagues U.S., Claims 118 Lives and Causes 1,405 Chronic Illnesses
Health officials are proclaiming this year to be the worst for West Nile deaths and chronic illnesses. While there is no guaranteed method to prevent West Nile infections, here are some suggestions that should assist you in fighting off bites from mosquitos that may be carrying the West Nile virus: 1) Apply insect repellent to exposed skin. 2) Spray [...]
Sinclaire Coffer, a 17-year-old high school student with autism, is fighting to be allowed to graduate from North Springs Charter High School in Sandy Springs, Ga.,after the state Board of Education ruled against it, WSB-TV reports. While Coffer has passed every other portion of the states graduation exam, he has failed the math portion [...]
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Black and Latino students may be getting less critical, but helpful, feedback from teachers than their white counterparts, a new educational study indicates. “The social implications of these results are important; many minority students might not be getting input from instructors thatstimulates intellectual growth and fosters achievement,” study researcher Kent Harber, a Rutgers-Newark psychology professor, said [...]
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An Atlanta woman has pleaded guilty after she was accused of traveling to cities on the East Coast and illegally injecting women’s buttocks (what did she inject them with?). Kimberly Smedley apparently administered the injections in hotel rooms (find out how much she charged). She faces a maximum of five years in jail (find out [...]
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When I was a little girl, and really still to this day, I had an irrational fear about small foreign objects getting stuck in my vadge. (Remember, we can’t say use the technical word on this site…) If I was sitting in the grass, I couldn’t be there for too long because I’d ultimately start [...]
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A woman who was once addicted to growing the nails on her hands has now grown her toenails to a staggering four inches, limiting her motion and jeopardising her health. Known as Ayanna, the 54-year-old is the latest quirky character to appear on TLC’s show My Strange Addiction on which she refuses to cut her [...]
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When news broke that Rihanna had at the very least collaborated with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown on new music, and at most reconciled with him romantically, the blogosphere exploded with a variety of questions; is Rihanna’s career in danger, is her health in danger, should we forgive Chris Brown, and so on. Those questions remain up [...]
Continue reading …Woman Dies Of Allergic Reaction To Weave Glue, And Similar Deaths Have Happened
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A doctor in London is speculating Atasha Graham, 34, died from a possible allergic reaction to the adhesive used to apply her weave. The Daily Mail reports that Graham collapsed after a night of dancing at a club. The sweat from dancing may have allowed glue to enter Graham’s blood stream in turn causing the [...]
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A 71-year-old Italian man was rushed to the hospital after he experienced chest pain due to irregular heart beats in his 2 hearts.The patient, who was gone unnamed, underwent a double heart transplant many years ago. During that procedure instead of his diseased heart being replaced, it was fused with a new one.Problems arose when [...]
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Fat people should think twice about donating their body to science — science might not want it. Overweight corpses simply aren’t ideal for scientific study, says Richard Drake, a surgery professor at the Lerner College of Medicine. “The storage is one issue, but when you are obese, there’s a lot of tissue everywhere,” [...]
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