Bernie Sanders Hospitalized For Emergency Heart Procedure Following Arterial Blockage
During a campaign event Tuesday evening, Bernie Sanders experienced “chest discomfort.” Doctors found a blockage in the senator’s artery.
One Year After Alexandra Williams’ Death By Birth Control, Little Has Changed
Like many women, Alex was not fully aware of the health risks associated with her birth control, as she and doctors struggled to identify health complications that resulted just months later.
I Was Wrong: Sometimes It’s Necessary To Remove Ectopic Babies To Save Their Mother’s Life
In my rush to defend the preborn, I fell headlong into confirmation bias. I saw what I wanted to see: that no heartbreaking compromises really have to be made.
If Vaping Is Banned, Millions Of Americans Will Needlessly Die
The media is trumping up a fake national health crisis, but the only thing vaping poses an existential threat to is the tobacco industry’s business model.
7 Things I’ve Learned Since My Child Identified As Transgender
After my 13-year-old started living as transgender, our public school transformed into our enemy. It treats parents as unenlightened, backwards, and possibly dangerous.
High-Tech Medicine Gets The Headlines, But Low-Tech Also Saves Lives
Many innovative, low-tech approaches to medicine help patients and help reduce the frequency of hospitalizations and, therefore, health care costs.
In An Ectopic Pregnancy, It’s Medical Malpractice Not To Save The Mother’s Life By Removing The Baby
With an ectopic pregnancy, you save the life you can save. You don’t have to like it, but when you are faced with a choice between one death and two, you do what you can to make it one.
To Prevent Teen Vaping, Give Kids The Facts, Not Misinformation
The truth is, one Juul pod is not equivalent to one pack of cigarettes. And building a vaping prevention campaign around this message is dishonest and misleading.
Is Abortion Really Necessary For Treating Ectopic Pregnancies?
Just like the common false positives that result from early prenatal screening, the false dogma surrounding ectopic pregnancies is contributing to the abortion rate.
New Research Suggests Fluoride In Drinking Water Can Reduce Unborn Babies’ Later IQ
Without any known health benefits of fluoride to babies, and with known potential harms, expectant mothers would do well to decrease or limit the amount of fluoride they consume.
How To Help Someone Experiencing A Miscarriage
Miscarriages are very common, but the frequency of the tragedy does not reduce the weight of death. Here is how you can be a support through your friends’ grief.
Anti-Discrimination Policies Didn’t Help When People Targeted My LGBT Identity At Work
Following the rules, guidelines, and legal processes only disabled me and conditioned me never to speak up again if I found myself in a similar situation.
This Market-Based Health Insurance Alternative Has Increased 600 Percent Since Obamacare
For nine years, as Obamacare tore through American households and clinics and hospitals, health-care sharing ministries quietly grew—twice, thrice, and now nine times their size.
Walmart Sued For Selling Homeopathic ‘Snake Oil’
An estimated 5 million adults and 1 million children used homeopathy in the past year. Those who practice it believe microscopic amounts of natural substances can stimulate natural healing.
Without Action Now, Drug-Resistant Diseases May Create Pandemics
In the United States, antimicrobial resistance causes more than 2 million infections and 23,000 deaths per year—the equivalent of a Boeing 747 crashing each week.
Not Getting Your First-Choice Gay Wedding Cake Is Nothing Like Getting The Measles
A New York Times op-ed suggests allowing any religious liberty claims opens the door to spurious claims of religious liberty. This is utterly foolish.
Mother Of Baby Who Caught Measles Begs Other Parents To Vaccinate
The measles vaccine is far, far safer than actually getting measles, despite what you may have heard from skeptics. And it’s unkind to expose babies to a horrific illness by not getting yourself and your kids vaccinated.
What Research Says About How Religion Affects Your Health
Despite ample reason to believe that faith in a higher power is associated with improved health, very little is still known about the effect religion has on the living body.
New York City Has A Good Legal Case For Mandating Vaccines
A lawsuit percolating through the courts attempts to weigh the religious liberty of Orthodox Jews with a dire and compelling public health interest.
Why Are Dove And Gillette Pushing Us To Lie About What’s Beautiful?
The whole ad exercise projects aura of a group therapy session, to get rid of that ‘anxiety’ or insecurity a lady might feel when exposed to an image of someone truly beautiful.
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