Health

Even Archie??? Well…I mean Archie was always kind of gay so… but still. As many people around the real world become more and more accepting of same-sex marriage and the LBGT lifestyle as a whole, the world of comic books seems to be following suit. In a surprising turn of events at London’s Kapow! Comic [...]

Skylines are so passé. In an attempt to give travelers better—or at least closer—ocean views, Dubai-based construction company Drydocks World and Swiss consulting, engineering, and brokerage firm BIG InvestConsult will build the Water Discus Hotel, a luxury underwater hotel in Dubai. Poland’s Deep Ocean Technology designed the hotel, surrounded by a coral reef, to have [...]

Tanorexia - The term often used to describe a condition in which a person participates in excessive outdoor sun tanning or excessive use of other skin tanning methods (such as tanning beds) to achieve a darker skin complexion because they perceive themselves as unacceptably pale. The syndrome is different than tanning addiction, although both may fit [...]

Good Morning Family and Friends! As many of you know I walk in the March for Babies every year. This cause is near and dear to me not only because of my family members who were born premature, but also because prematurity in the Black community is staggering. Black women are twice as likely as [...]

Phony marijuana targeted by recent state legislation sounds worse than the real thing, if you believe Georgia’s governor. Chase’s Law strengthens a ban on “synthetic marijuana,” ground-up plant material laced with chemicals that mimic marijuana. Chase Burnett, the bill’s namesake, was found dead in March in a hot tub at his Fayette County home, a [...]

  This is a great graphic on how weeds – found in your own yard – can be used to help heal sicknesses, burns, sores and other ailments. [...]

The congressional hearing room in the Rayburn House Office Building was lit brightly, all warm and cozy. The chairs around the witness table were comfortable, and a bottle of water was set before each place. It was quite a contrast to  the living conditions of Rumi Khan,  an 11-year-old sixth-grader; Brooklyn Pastor, a 12-year-old seventh-grader;  [...]

When it’s 17-year-old Eric Gant’s turn to testify today at an Oakland legislative hearing on the health and welfare of California‘s minority men and boys, he will ask for a safe way to get to school.   “Students deserve a safe path to school, like an adult wants a safe path to work,” Gant, who [...]

On March 5, 2012, the online publication The Daily reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture was making available to school districts ground beef containing, collectively, 7 million pounds of so-called “pink slime” (or lean, finely textured beef – “LFTB”) for use in school meals.   On March 6th, I started a Change.org petition asking USDA to stop the use [...]

The futuristic idea that microchips could be implanted under a patient’s skin to control the release of drugs has taken another step forward. US scientists have been testing just such a device on women with the bone-wasting disease osteoporosis. The chip was inserted in their waist and activated by remote control. A clinical trial, reported [...]

This website represents an effort by the friends and family of MAD (ESC KD WH NSF crews; co-founder of the INFAMOUS MAG; respected Philadelphia artist; and all-around good dude) to raise funds to help him support himself and his family during his battle with CANCER. MAD was rushed to the hospital just after the 2012 [...]

Sink taps were the source of an infection which killed three babies at a Belfast hospital, the Northern Ireland health minister has confirmed. Edwin Poots told the NI Assembly that the Pseudomonas bacteria had been traced to taps at a neo-natal unit in the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital. The unit was deep cleaned at the [...]