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Samantha Powell said she started abusing prescription painkillers when she was just 15. For years, she moved through rehab and detox facilities, methadone and suboxone clinics, looking for a way to overcome her dependency. She succeeded in quitting opioids by the time her 4-year-old son, Grant was born, but relapsed soon after. In 2018, living […]
Jameela Jamil almost went a bit too method in her acting when she first started playing the recently deceased Tahani Al-Jamil on The Good Place. The actress, 33, was increasingly feeling worn down as she filmed the first season of the hit NBC show, all while her costar Ted Danson was feeling perfectly fine — […]
A vast majority of adolescents around the world are not participating in enough exercise, putting their current and future health at risk, according to a new study. The study, conducted by researchers from the World Health Organization and published in The Lancet medical journal on Thursday, found that more than 80 percent of children aged […]
Lili Reinhart is taking a stand against “unrealistic” photoshopping apps. The Riverdale star, 23, said Sunday that she was searching for a basic app to resize her photos — not the content of her photos — when she saw an advertisement for the BodyTune app. Reinhart recorded the ad, which showed how people can slim […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has called on Dollar Tree and its related stores to stop selling products it deems “potentially unsafe.” In a letter sent earlier this month to Greenbrier International Inc., the company that operates Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores, the FDA claims the chain receives over-the-counter drugs made by foreign […]
Contaminated donor breast milk turned out to be the culprit in an incident last month in which eight premature infants were infected with bacteria in a neonatal intensive care unit of a Pennsylvania hospital. Three of those infants died. Following an internal investigation at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pa., in conjunction with the state […]
If every employee walked or jogged for an extra 15 minutes each day, the world could see an economic boost of $100 billion, according to a new report on the economic benefits of a more physically active population. Those economic gains would come from three mechanisms, researchers explain in the report, which was published this […]
Looking for a reason to take a sick day (or a way to make some extra cash)? Scientists are currently searching for healthy volunteers who are willing to be infected with the flu virus to see how it affects the body. Volunteers will be compensated up to $3,300. Led by the National Institute of Allergy […]
A British Parliamentary committee says many people with autism or learning disabilities are being detained in “horrific” conditions and is calling for an overhaul of the system intended to evaluate their treatment. The Joint Committee on Human Rights said in a report issued Friday that it heard “grim” evidence about how young people with disabilities […]
This is a Kaiser Health News story. Interested in Health Care Overhaul? Everything old is new again. As open enrollment gets underway for next year’s job-based health insurance coverage, some employees are seeing traditional plans offered alongside or instead of the plans with sky-high deductibles that may have been their only choice in the past. […]