A nurse at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Ocilla, Georgia, is speaking out about high rates of hysterectomies being performed on immigrant women under custody, allegedly without their full knowledge and consent. The accusation came to light in a whistleblower complaint filed on Monday. Human rights and immigration advocacy groups filed […]
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Five People Have Contracted Flesh-Eating Bacteria from the Long Island Sound—Here's What to Know About About the Rare Infection
Public health officials in Connecticut are warning residents about the risk of swimming or wading in the Long Island Sound after an “unusual number” of people became infected with flesh-eating bacteria from the water. Since July, there have been five reported cases of Vibrio vulnificus infections caused by bacteria in the water, according to a […]
Ragweed: This Plant teaches Allergy sufferers, the Fear
Note: This article first appeared on 7. June 2017 and was published in the occasion of an Ambrosia-warning again. According to birch, hazel and grasses, many Allergy sufferers have in this country is already set, that they are tortured every year from the Pollen of new, immigrant species. In the case of the already hated […]
Italian Doctors successfully sever Siamese twins
Italian Doctors has succeeded in creating a highly complex Operation to separate Siamese twins. The last of three difficult operations for the separation of the two girls Ervina and Prefina have taken place at the beginning of June, was informed by the hospital Bambino Gesù in Rome on Tuesday. The from the Central African Republic […]
Children and young people have too many long-lasting chemicals in the blood
Children and young people in Germany have many long-lasting chemicals in the blood. The President of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Dirk Messner, warned on Monday in Dessau, the damage caused by them are often still unexplored. Specifically, it is the so-called per – and polyfluorinated chemicals, short-PFAS. They are used for example for the […]
WHO chief praises Corona-Commission in Sweden: Other countries should learn from it
That Sweden is on a different, more lax course in the fight against the Coronavirus, is now the most well-known. The Scandinavian country is focusing more on education instead of restrictions. Restaurants were not, for example, a mask of duty there. For this path, it rained, but also of many pages of criticism, particularly from […]
Couples who share a bed, sleep better
In most countries, couples share a bed. Studies, how this affects the quality of sleep, have so far come to conflicting results. A new study now shows that couples who sleep in the same bed, synchronize your stages of sleep and dreaming. Twelve young, healthy couples spent together, and separated for four nights in the […]
Dating Is Better During Quarantine, and It Doesn't Have to Change
Before COVID-19, Vaneet’s dating life was “pretty much non-existent.” “Asking people out IRL only led to rejection,” the 28-year-old says. “Apps were just a constant stream of being ghosted. It was exhausting, and I practically gave up dating.” While most of us have been going through unbearable dry spells and deeply missing human touch, Vaneet […]
Hendrik Streeck: “There are many questions that can’t be answered by a physician.”
The role of the virologist, it must be limited, the calls, of all things, one of Germany’s chief virologists, Hendrik Streeck, the University of Bonn. “There are many questions that can’t be answered by a physician.” For example, if it was a matter of the proportionality of the means. Streeck wants a pragmatic approach to […]
Ding Dong, the doctor is here! Like Cuba, with a house to visit Covid-19 fights
In Germany, the government wants to curb the rampant Corona pandemic with a mobile App, other countries rely on large-scale testing or thermal imaging cameras for measuring temperature of passers-by. Cuba has a different approach: day-to-day to go on the Caribbean island of thousands of Doctors and medical students, door-to-door looking for Infected. “We ask […]