Amid the heroin epidemic, there is little disagreement over the effectiveness of naloxone, the medication that can revive opioid addicts from an overdose. It has come to be seen as an essential tool to combat the skyrocketing number of overdoses.
It’s easy to see why. The medication, used in the form of a spray or a shot, is simple to administer. Because it can send a person into immediate withdrawal and doesn’t produce a high, naloxone, also known by its brand name, Narcan, has no street value if diverted to the black market.
But even after states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania passed laws expanding access to the naloxone for first responders and protecting them from potential liability, some law enforcement agencies resist carrying the lifesaving medicine.
Female veterans who try to take their own lives are often successful at a far higher rate than their female non-veteran counterparts because of one reason: They use guns.
Female veterans die by suicide at nearly six times the rate as those with no service record, such an alarming number that mental health experts at the Department of Veterans Affairs say the agency is reaching out to former servicewomen to talk about gun safety.
The female veterans’ suicide rate is also surprising because men generally are far more likely than women to die by suicide.
A group of researchers, concerned that public health messages about the dangers of indoor tanning weren’t reaching the right people, decided to try an experiment: They took out a bunch of ads on Google, targeting users who were searching for tanning beds and salons online.
In a new paper, the dermatology researchers say they were encouraged by their preliminary findings, which indicated that targeted ads are a promising tool for public health advocates looking for more ways to put their findings in front of those who need to hear them most.
“We really want to strive to reach people at highest risk for these behaviors in an easy, cost-effective way,” said Eleni Linos, an assistant professor of dermatology at University of California, San Francisco, in an interview. The findings were published in the journal JAMA Dermatology on Wednesday.
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Teresa Lynch, owner of Dynamic Tanning in DeKalb, Ill., wipes…
In 2012, Sandy Jauregui-Baza was hiking along the Tamul waterfall in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, when she started coughing and having trouble breathing. “I remember thinking I must be coming down with something,” she recalls.
Jauregui-Baza was an avid exerciser; she ran or hiked daily, logging more than 100 miles each month. She ate clean, avoiding almost all processed foods. She figured she was too healthy for anything to be seriously wrong. But after developing flu-like symptoms, she went to an urgent care clinic in Los Angeles. The doctor thought it might be tuberculosis, based on the results of her cloudy chest X-ray and her recent honeymoon in Nepal, where the infectious disease is common. But a few days later, when the definitive test for TB came back negative, doctors did a lung biopsy to look for other causes.
The final diagnosis: Jauregui-Baza had stage IV lung cancer, the most advanced form of the disease; it had spread into the bones of her spinal column. “I thought the doctors had to be kidding,” says Jauregui-Baza, now 32. “I’ve never even smoked, and I had just hiked to the base camp of Mount Everest. How could I have lung cancer?” The prognosis was grim: More than 95 percent of stage IV lung cancer patients succumb to the disease within five years of diagnosis. Jauregui-Baza was given just six months to live.
Photographer Leilani Rogers feels watching a baby come into this world is a “heavenly experience,” and along her way to capturing 50 births she’s witnessed tender moments as well as seen things that are extraordinary and unusual.
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This baby has just been born, she is brand new just minutes old. She looks like she jsut stepped out of heaven.
People who lay off butter and cheese and pour olive oil onto their salads instead live longer and lower their risk of heart disease, researchers reported Monday.
It’s one of the longest and most detailed studies yet about what, precisely, to substitute for artery-clogging fats and the answers are clear: although most Americans substitute sugary treats and white bread, the better path is to go for vegetable oils and whole grains.
While the advice is nothing new, this study done by the Harvard School of Public Health puts numbers on it.
She drools, speaks in gibberish, can’t feed herself and takes constant naps. If you watch how your baby spends her days, you might think that she doesn’t have the cognitive, social or emotional wherewithal to understand much about the world around her and the people in it.
But if you look the right way, you can see that she — like all babies — is actually focused on figuring out exactly how the world works. She is systematically analyzing the objects and people around her, making predictions, and designing experiments to test her hypotheses. When the data doesn’t pan out as expected, she revises her ideas and engages in further study.
The more that scientists explore how babies interact with the world and work to learn about it, the more sophisticated infants seem to be.
This video is about catfish production along the polluted Mekong River.
Wonder if our restaurants buy fish from these sources–how would we know?
IMORTANT TO WATCH THIS. MAKES YOU WANT TO HAVE A FISH FRY TONIGHT LOL.
. THIS IS A GREAT EDUCATION ON TAKING CARE WHAT WE EAT..PRODUCT OF ORIGIN MUST BE DISPLAYED ON RETAIL PRODUCTS…BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!! YOU DON’T WANT TO GLOW IN THE DARK.
For years, green tea has gotten high marks for its amazing health benefits. It’s antioxidant rich, great for your heart and gives your brain a bump. But a tea called matcha, which is a powder made of ground green tea leaves, can boost those benefits ten-fold.
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Matcha, which is a powder made of ground green tea leaves, can boost those benefits ten-fold.
A young man starting a new life with the woman he loved was put to rest on what was supposed to be the happiest day of the couple’s lives — their wedding day.
Solomon Chau, 26, of Toronto, Canada, died on Aug. 17 after fighting cancer for eight months, according to his obituary. His funeral was held on Aug. 22, the date he originally planned to marry Jenn Carter. In a bittersweet twist, the couple had a last-minute wedding in April, less than a month after Chau learned his liver cancer had spread, and that he probably wouldn’t be alive on the date that they had originally chosen for the wedding.
“She’s doing OK,” Mike Carter said. “This doesn’t make a lot of sense to her. Being that young — this isn’t supposed to happen to 26-year-old married couples. It’s a little confusing. A bit of a shock, even though we knew it was coming.”
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Gun safety is important
This baby has just been born, she is brand new just minutes old. She looks like she jsut stepped out of heaven.
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