Actors making pornographic movies in Los Angeles will be required to use condoms while filming, under a new law signed by the city mayor. The new regulation has been welcomed by health officials but pornography industry leaders say it could force them to abandon the city. LA's San Fernando V... Read more...
Scientists have used DNA lurking inside the teeth of medieval Black Death victims to figure out the entire genetic code of the deadly bacterium that swept across Europe more than 600 years ago, killing an estimated half of the population. The researchers didn't find any genetic feature th... Read more...
For the past few days an exploit has been hijacking Facebook users accounts and posting explicit gore and pornography to users’ timelines. Facebook users’ outrage is mounting toward the social network for an exploit that is currently turning unsuspecting users’ newsfeeds into unstoppabl... Read more...
In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu. Many of the farmers and their family had contracted it and many died. The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy.... Read more...
It is a fitting message for the day—the reality is viral hepatitis does, in fact, affect everyone, everywhere. Consider, for instance, that three percent of the world’s population is infected with the hepatitis C virus, a leading cause of liver disease. That’s 130 to 170 million people chr... Read more...
I got this email from a colleague the Tuesday after Memorial Day: “Can’t come in today. Stomach bug.” I’m no detective but—with barbeque season officially starting the day before—a prime suspect immediately jumped to mind: the norovirus, the most common cause of food poisoning in the ... Read more...
Are these people f*cking serious? Zombies now? Not only is the world gonna end but now There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you... Read more...
This last Sunday a young man of Lebanese descent was arrested Sami Samir Hassoun, 22 years old and a permanent resident alien who works at a neighborhood Bakery allegedly tried to set off explosives in a busy part of Chicago. However, the explosives – weren’t actually explosives. It was fak... Read more...
For those concerned about the impending flu season, the government will be making the seasonal flu vaccine available again this year. Except this year, there is a difference -the normal seasonal flu vaccine will be combined with swine flu (H1N1) vaccine as well. “The 2010-2011 seasonal flu... Read more...