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Relax, it's Italy:
Anti-vaccine Italian Government Sacks Entire Health Expert Board

The vaccine-skeptic Italian government has sacked every member...

Smallpox is caused by the variola virus, a DNA virus of the genus Orthopoxvirus. Humans are the only known reservoir for this virus. It is...

Diet soda is the latest rage. Apparently causes everything. Should I also give up sucralose?

From the wonderful Quackwatch :

Yet another study debunks vaccination-autism link.

New findings from the CHildhood Autism Risks from Genetics and...

Do you already know of him?

He was a Jewish Dr. (Max Jacobson) who came up with a brilliant idea, and carried it out. He would inject patients with...

I'm skeptical about this, but it is in Nature , which is supposed to be reputable. It's all just very early studies too, and what exactly it means is...

I suppose it is getting big enough to warrant its own thread.

Where we stand

I say 'we' in the 'them' sense since it seems to be mostly...

Coffee Waste Is Now Fetching a 480% Premium Over Coffee Itself

Prices for dried husks are outstripping those for beans.
Details:

Eat up!

The stomachs of competitive eaters accommodate large quantities of food by repeated rapid distension of the gastric wall during eating...

A pretty typical classic case:

The mystery of screaming schoolgirls in Malaysia

It was a quiet Friday morning last July when pandemonium broke...

At first I asked if this was from The Onion, because honestly after reading I wasn’t sure.

But no, Dr. Zimmerman is really a naturopath and, well,...

US regulators have approved the first pill that can be digitally tracked through the body.

The Abilify MyCite aripiprazole tablets - for treating...

Epic Systems is a health care services provider with $2.7 billion in annual revenue. Its mathematician chief executive, Judy Faulkner, is a...

Butter up yer popcorn and put on the 3-D glasses.

'Church' to offer 'miracle cure' despite FDA warnings against drinking bleach

A group calling itself Genesis II Church of Health and Healing plans...

The carotid artery (in the neck) was damaged and blood was squirting all over the place. My instinct would be to grab it and hold on till help got...

This one sounds bizarre. Also, it involves Jordan Peterson.

The Jordan Peterson All-Meat Diet

It's actually even more narrow than that: all beef...

Could this be true?

Are they just repeating a story someone told them? Can we see this woman on video?

Now, predatory publishers are offering to post a video for fees ranging from $1,500 to $4,200, according to reporter Tom Spears of the Ottawa...

Scientists still don’t know all of the targets CBD hits in the human body, nor what effects it may have, if any. With the exception of tests in...

$1.2 billion Medicare scam.

Telemarketers would reach out to seniors offering “free” orthopedic braces, also touted through television and radio...

Today, claims that it put schizophrenia into remission in two patients.

Yeah well if it were only that simple.

Recommend reading the whole Twitter thread.

...might not be as bad as all that.

Last week, a nutritional epidemiological study (from now on nutri epi) published in JAMA 1 posited that egg...

Scientists are working on a pill for loneliness
Teh Gruniad

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It’s less science fiction than it sounds. A number of clinical trials – led by...

A “deeply disturbing” video showing a Melbourne chiropractor holding a two-week-old baby upside down and performing controversial spinal treatments...

WTF

This has to be one of the strangest stories I’ve heard in a while: Chloe Jennings-White, a 61-year-old chemist from Salt Lake City, Utah, is...

Drug overdoses, suicides cause drop in 2017 US life expectancy; CDC director calls it a 'wakeup call'

Key findings

Data from the National Vital...

Oh deary, deary me.

Fellas, would you allow anyone to inject your penis with anything to increase its girth, or even do it yourself with substances...

:lmao:

Would you eat insects to save the planet from global warming?
Teh Gruniad

It sounds to me like one of those juvenile truth or dare things.

If...

It's no longer Weight Watchers, it's just WW now, and now they're into wellness not losing weight.

They think they can erase the past. Never...

I thought I knew all the sexual slang and ethnic slurs, especially the gay stuff, but now there's this.

French doctor offering 'homosexuality'...

Apparently they are a single use product.

After 12 years in which we’ve published more than 2,500 news story reviews, we’ve found that reports out of medical meetings are among the most...

Psychiatrist spanked patients with whips, riding crops, and called them 'mules,' officials say

A Memphis psychiatrist has been forced to close her...

The NIH Just Cancelled a Massive Alcohol Study Because It Was 'Irrevocably Damaged'

The National Institutes of Health on Friday canceled a mammoth...

Probably 99.9% of the time you hear big pharma shills it's coming from either a seller of some kind of alternative medicine or health supplement, or...

(Assuming this isn't fake news.)

'Cockroach milk' is latest superfood trend

Ummm, I don't really care if it has proteins and amino acids, I'll...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspected your candy manufacturing facility located at 135 American Legion Highway, Revere, MA from...

STDs in L.A. County are skyrocketing. Officials think climate change may be to blame
Los Angeles Times

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Many health experts say that public...

Seems these needles in clumsy or incompetent hands can get you into serious trouble (notably pneumothorax ).

French article you can peruse for its...

A friend of mine got shingles. His wife says it was so horrible that he tried to kill himself. There is a vaccine available but I don't know how...

Turns out that some of these things may have strange side effects:

More evidence essential oils 'make male breasts develop'

A suspected link...

A must read.

Then the fucking carnival rolled into town. There were back to back sessions where we learned that death IS NOT REAL. And it’s...

Georgian College cancels diploma in homeopathy (Georgian College is the name, it's actually in Ontario, Canada)

Georgian College says it is...