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California health officials are warning about a surge in a potentially deadly fungal infection. The state is reporting 6,761 cases of valley fever, also known as coccidioidomycosis, through July this year. That means California is on pace to top last year’s record of 12,595 cases. There were fewer than 1,000 cases logged in the year … Read more
Several cancers in younger adults are on the rise, stumping medical professionals everywhere. Now, a groundbreaking new study has presented some of the most compelling evidence yet as to why — and revealed who’s at the greatest risk. The study, published in the journal Cancer Discovery, analyzed over two million cases and found significant increases … Read more
Dave Portnoy said he did a favor for Shannon Sharpe and was given “the biggest insult of my professional career” in return at Super Bowl 2025 in New Orleans this past February. During Monday’s installment of “The Barstool Rundown,” the founder of Barstool Sports explained he filmed Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” podcast for two hours … Read more
A woman on Reddit described how her family secretly tucked meat or meat products into her food while she was a practicing vegetarian during her high school years — and now the post has gone viral. To date, the post has received some 2,300 reactions, with 600 people sharing comments about it — and a psychologist offered … Read more
The tragic suicides of Robin Williams in 2014 and of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain in 2018 led to a surge in suicidal thoughts and behaviors among the public, a troubling new report from Columbia University finds. Columbia researchers developed a computer model that estimated the amount of suicidal ideation and the number of suicides that … Read more
During the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency rooms saw a spike in cannabis-related events in adolescents, according to new data released on Thursday. Findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed the number of adolescents visiting the ER was higher during the pandemic years than in 2019. Most of the incidents reported by the CDC … Read more
It looks like all that day drinking caught up to us. Medical researchers have found that a jump in alcohol-related liver disease is directly linked to the COVID-19 pandemic years. There were an increasing number of cases of alcohol-related liver illness from 2016 through 2020, the researchers from Washington State University noted. But the increase … Read more
It’s been 25 years since “Titanic,” and those who worked on the film still remember the night they got drugged on set. On Aug. 9, 1996 on the set of “Titanic” in Halifax, Nova Scotia, craft services provided the cast and crew with clam chowder — that was spiked with PCP. The meal was so … Read more
Tennessee officials will drop raccoon bait spiked with marshmallow-flavored RABIES VACCINE drops in bid to stop outbreak spreading among the woodland critters The Department of Agriculture and Wildlife Services, along with the Tennessee Department of Health, are air dropping rabies vaccines The vaccines are wrapped in fishmeal, but they are also field testing a marshmallow-flavored … Read more