The mega-event continues to shine in Paris, where the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games are already underway. Some 4,400 athletes will take to the world stage to compete in 22 different sports. The Paralympic Games in Paris attracted a phenomenal level of interest – more than two million tickets have already been sold. Some are now […]
Puberty blockers are drugs that stop the body from producing estrogen and testosterone. In the clinic, they are called gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRHa). If teens take these medications during puberty, the physical changes associated with puberty are prevented. If these medications are stopped, the physical changes return. Puberty blockers were used since the beginning of […]
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of the MPox outbreak, say they lack even the most basic tools needed to contain and treat the virus. The country has constrained capacity to diagnose mpox cases, even as transmission and presentation of the disease change. That complicates efforts to trace contacts and determine […]
Summer is coming to an end, but mosquitoes will still be… will still be in full force early autumn. In most cases, insect bites are nothing more than a nuisance that goes away after a few days. However, mosquitoes can carry pathogens that cause diseases, including West Nile virus and, in very uncommon cases, a […]
On July 26, 2024, I exported all of the “toxic” and “potentially toxic” backlinks to three of our blog posts from a well-known SEO tool. There were a total of 129 URLs that I disowned in Google Search Console. After being rejected, traffic (according to GSC data) fell by 7.1%: A side note. Google began […]
The language of indigent mental health is inescapable. Diagnostic terms like depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) permeate popular culture and the online world. They are the currency of countless news and awareness campaigns. Growth diagnostic labels could be celebrated. This suggests that public awareness of mental health is increasing, and the stigma associated with […]
One person felt a sense of “slowly floating” as images flashed around. Another recalled “the deepest sense of love and peace” unlike anything she had experienced before. Consciousness became a “foreign entity” to another, whose “all sense of reality disappeared.” Here are some of the personal accounts of people who participated in a study among […]
Five more people have died in the past three weeks after eating products contaminated with the Listeria bacteria linked to Boar’s Head deli meats, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday, bringing the total number of deaths in the nationwide outbreak to eight. A total of 57 people have been hospitalized with the […]
Whether you drink chocolate milk regularly as a weekend snack or just to reminisce about your childhood every now and then, it’s probably not the first option you think of when it comes to post-workout recovery. Unless you’re on TikTok. According to many on the social media platform, chocolate milk is not only delicious, but […]
“Pretty poison” was what newspapers called it in the mid-1990s, when the deadly neurotoxin that causes botulinum toxin began appearing in headlines as a transient wrinkle-smoothing agent. Botulinum toxin was 100 times more virulent than cyanide. For years, starting in World War II, the Defense Department had hoped to develop it as a chemical weapon. […]