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Parents Group Asks For The Term Anti-Vaxxers To Be Retired, But They Wont Be Pleased With The Alternatives Suggested By Twitter

Maybe people would not have such an “inflammatory” attitude towards anti-vaxxers if they did not spread repeatedly debunked information that is contributing to the Here is the original post from the group’s Twitter account Image credits: Twitter users showed that they have a host of other, almost funny if not a bit dark, names they could be calling campaigners against vaccinations. One compared the group’s demand to that of TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) who have deemed that term derogatory despite doing… well, what the acronym says… However, Comments came pouring in and Twitter users were having none of it FrankConniff SamWangPhD Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: ATinyGremlin …

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Woman develops 2-inch bezoar in stomach after diet of crab meat and persimmons

The mass was 2-inches in size and was causing the woman severe pain. (AsiaWire) There are certain risk factors that may make a patient more at risk for developing bezoars, including having gastric surgery, decreased stomach size, diabetes, end-stage kidney disease, and requiring mechanical ventilation assistant to aid in breathing. There are several types of bezoars that are classified based on the materials that form them. A phytobezoar, like the kind the patient in this case had, is comprised of indigestible food fibers. A trichobezoar is comprised of hair or hair-like fibers, and pharmacobezoars are composed of medications that don’t properly dissolve in the digestive tract. IS IT SAFE TO EAT ROADKILL? Bezoars can cause a lack of appetite, nausea, …

 
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Brits Try To Guess How Much US Healthcare Costs, React With Great Surprise When They Hear The Real Prices

about half as much per person on healthcare when compared to the U.S.. And when their residents hear about this, they can’t believe it. Just like the Britons in this video. PoliticsJOE PoliticsJOE PoliticsJOE PoliticsJOE PoliticsJOE PoliticsJOE PoliticsJOE PoliticsJOE Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: pointed out that hospital discharge rates for various procedures, such as knee and hip replacements and different types of heart surgeries, indicate that the use of care services in the U.S. is not so different compared to other countries. The  Next, administrative costs. They accounted for 8 percent of total national health expenditures in the U.S. For other countries, they ranged from 1 to 3 percent. Additionally, health care professionals in America reported …

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Non-Binary Person Teaches This Hateful Parent Tolerance And Their Text Exchange Goes Viral

a non-binary model, has a unique policy of responding with kindness to the people who message them on Instagram, even if some of the messages initially lack it. crude and even violent messages by asking how someone’s day is going, give compliments even in response to insults, and use humor and absurdity to deflect uncomfortable questions. And it might sound a little new-agey, but sometimes Dove finds that responding to someone with compassion and interest is enough to make them re-examine their initial judgemental reactions. Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: Image credits: Rain Dove Rain Dove Rain Dove Rain Dove Rain Dove Rain Dove Rain Dove Rain Dove Rain Dove But, amazingly, Dove’s posts show …

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Man sentenced for flashing toy gun at yacht club

‘Really silly’ George, of Panorama Road in Sandbanks, was a regular customer and had been drinking at the club during the afternoon of 10 September, the court heart. Prosecutor David Finney described how George lifted up his cardigan and flashed the handle of the fake gun that was tucked into the waistband of his shorts. In a statement, a member of staff said he was “really scared” at what he had seen. “I felt threatened seeing it – I didn’t know what he would do,” he said. Related Topics Poole Original Article : HERE ;

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A US sailor opens fire at a Pearl Harbor shipyard days before the anniversary of historic attack

(CNN)Multiple agencies are investigating Wednesday’s shooting at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii, where authorities say a US sailor killed two civilian workers and injured another before killing himself. One witness, who did not give his name, was at his desk Wednesday when he heard the gunshots from Shipyard Drydock 2, a maintenance area for nuclear submarines. “I kind of recognized that as gunshots, I looked out the window (and) saw three people on the ground, I looked out in time to see the shooter, who I assume was a sailor because he was in uniform, point the gun at his head and shoot himself,” the witness told CNN affiliate KGMB/KHNL. The shooting took place just three days before National …

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Patrick Schwarzenegger was ‘scared’ of his dad Arnold as Mr. Freeze in ‘Batman & Robin’

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze (Warner Bros.) Patrick, whose mom is Arnold’s ex-wife Maria Shriver, added: “I have photos of me with him and my mom, and I’m, like, creepily staring at him, like I’m scared and I don’t know who he is. “I think I was scared of him,” Patrick confessed. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, ACTOR-TURNED-CLIMATE ACTIVIST, REPORTEDLY DRIVES ‘TANK’ TO RUN ERRANDS However, according to the outlet, visiting his father on movie sets ultimately paid off as it inspired Patrick to follow in his acting footsteps. Original Article : HERE ;

 
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How to make cities better with hip-hop and poetry

Rapper Archie Green uses hip-hop to tackle mental health problems while poet Damien Wares verse brings color and positivity to his segregated neighborhood Archie Green is a rapper and a producer who uses hip-hop to de-stigmatize mental illness in black and brown communities. Its a cause he has championed after facing his own challenges with depression, and a message that Greens mental health awareness initiative, Peel Dem Layers Backs biggest event to date was a show called opening up about depression featured one of his songs, 25,000 streams on Soundcloud within two weeks. The response made Green consider his mission differently. I started getting this idea that maybe I should be doing more than music, maybe I should start telling …

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What Tinder’s biggest 2019 trends reveal about how people are dating

The dating platform an analysis of user data and activity in the last year, that tells us how the world dated on the app in 2019 Are you a vegan who likes kombucha? Are you real, lit, or looking for a real lit match? Do you even know what these words mean? If not, you probably need to lower your expectations on Tinder. Yesterday, the dating platform Year in Swipe roundcutting your carbon footprint in half. Woke was also the most used word in Tinder bios in Australia in the US and the UK, the word woke was the seventh most popular word. Mission: possible In 2019, young Tinder users are really interested in what your cause is. Among Generation …

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Tufts University to remove Sackler name from buildings and programs

(CNN)Tufts University said Thursday that it will remove the Sackler name from facilities and programs “starting immediately.” The decision comes after “long and thoughtful deliberations” and “with the values of this institution as the guiding force,” it said. Tufts, located just outside of Boston, MA, also announced in the statement that it plans to “establish a $3 million endowment to support education, research, and civic engagement programs aimed at the prevention and treatment of addiction and substance abuse.” A review conducted by a former US attorney and commissioned by the university to assess the university’s past relationship with Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers — whose gifts to the university date back to the 1980s — found no wrongdoing by the …

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Gabrielle Union’s ‘America’s Got Talent’ exit sparks NBC investigation

(CNN)The fallout from Gabrielle Union’s controversial “America’s Got Talent” exit continues. Variety published a report alleging Union’s contract was not picked up after urging the show’s producers to report an incident involving a racist joke and after she was told her hairstyles on the show were “too black.” A separate report by Vulture alleged workplace tension between Union and Simon Cowell, a judge and an executive producer on the series, partly over Cowell’s habit of smoking on set, which is prohibited in California. NBC, along with production company Fremantle and Cowell’s company Syco, said in a statement to CNN on Monday they are working with Union to “hear more about her concerns.” “We remain committed to ensuring a respectful workplace …

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This is the most important moment of Nancy Pelosi’s speakership

(CNN)Nancy Pelosi’s place in the history books is already secure. She will always be the first woman ever to serve as speaker of the House — and the first woman to do so twice. She helped usher the first major overhaul of the US health care system in decades through the House. She led the efforts to retake the House majority not once but twice, There’s little doubt that House Democrats — led by Pelosi — are in the midst of an inevitable march toward making President Donald Trump just the third president in American history to be impeached by the House. Pelosi’s blessing on Thursday of the drawing up of articles of impeachment — an effort that will be …

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6 ‘probable’ vaping-related lung injury cases linked to Massachusetts dispensaries

(CNN)A state investigation into vaping-related lung injury cases in Massachusetts has found that vape products used in six probable cases were purchased legally from dispensaries. All of the products contained THC or tetrahydrocannabinol, the primary psychoactive component of cannabis. Details from this investigation into vape products were released on Thursday and included 49 vaping-related lung injury cases total, 16 of which were “confirmed” and 33 of which were “probable.” Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every Tuesday from the CNN Health team. While it appears that vitamin E acetate, a thickener used in some vaping products, is linked to the lung injury cases, the agency said it can’t rule out other chemicals. “CDC …

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Tired Of People Underestimating The Importance Of Her Job, Dispatcher Explains How Vital It Is In A Viral Post

To us, emergencies are a rare occurrence. But dispatchers deal with emergency after emergency. Every. Single. Day. For. Years. Lynette McManus Jeter, a dispatcher from Henrico County in Virginia, wrote an honest essay about the emotional pitfalls of her profession and how it affects her life. The 39-year-old Lynette, who has been working as a dispatcher for 15 years, wants other people to see the work that dispatchers do not as ‘clerical work.’ She wants them to be seen as first responders. The fact is, stressful jobs don’t stop affecting you the moment that you leave the workplace. Some of that stress (in some cases, all of it) follows you home. writes that emergency dispatchers can suffer from compassion fatigue, …

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Russia claims former Marine detained on spying charges is faking health problems in prison

Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who was detained and accused of espionage. Russian officials said Tuesday that Whelan’s allegations of ill-treatment and health problems proved false. (REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva/File Photo) Whelan, who has U.S., Irish, Canadian and British citizenship, was arrested in December 2018 while at a friend’s wedding in Russia on charges that he received state secrets. Russian news agency Rosbalt reported that Whelan was arrested in his Metropol Hotel room five minutes after he received a USB stick containing a list of names of people working at a classified security agency. He is also accused of attempting to recruit a friend to obtain information from Russian departments and agencies. American officials have called for his release. The U.S. embassy said Russia has not presented …

 
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Nicotine sickness: the latest vaping scare

The rampant use of e-cigarettes in the US is raising concerns about nicotine poisoning and mental health issues among young vapers Sharon Levy, director of the adolescent substance use and addiction programme at the childrens hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, is quick to recall the first time a teenager with vaping-induced nicotine poisoning arrived at her clinic. This was about a year and a half ago, she says. I remember sitting, talking with him about his experiences using [the e-cigarette] Juul, and it became quite clear to me that the symptoms he had were basically nicotine toxicity. Nicotine is sometimes used as a pesticide in very high levels, and his symptoms were quite similar to people who had been exposed to …

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