Why TV rating systems are little help to parents
Parents would undoubtedly give the TV rating system in the United States a terrible review.
10-foot snake on the loose in small Maine town; locals name it ‘Wessie’
It’s got its own Twitter feed (obviously) and its own tribute song.
Bringing home the bacon may be bad for men’s wellbeing, study says
There may be a downside to acting as the male breadwinner in a household — it just might be unhealthy, at least for millennials, according to new research.
The decisions behind remaining child-free
Despite the recent findings that having kids might be harmful to your self-esteem, it’s pretty safe to say that American culture is “pronatalist”: As soon as you graduate college, start a career, and marry somebody, the next level of the video game called life is parenthood. Whether it’s your mom asking about would-be grandkids over the holidays or the endless parade of domestic sitcoms, there’s an agreed-upon assumption that “family” includes children, and that not having kids must be the result of infertility or just not getting around to it. But these expectations are at odds with changes in the way people are living: From the 1970s to the 2000s, the number of childless women in the U.S. nearly doubled, and the national data suggests that 15 percent of women and 24 percent of men hit 40 without having kids.
Doctors remove 40 knives from man’s stomach in India
A man in India spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed from his stomach, according to the doctor who led the operation.
Report: Pills in Prince’s home mislabeled, contained fentanyl
Pills seized inside Prince’s Paisley Park compound by investigators were labeled as hydrocodone but actually contained fentanyl — the drug that killed the singer — according to a source with knowledge of the investigation who revealed the information to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Pregnant obstetrician faces Zika firsthand
On a sunny Saturday morning, Dr. Karla Maguire helps her mother-in-law get her son’s stroller out of their house in Surfside, Florida, and then goes back inside while Rafael and his grandmother walk to the beach alone.
Scallops recalled hundreds sick
Sea Port Products Corp is voluntarily recalling a batch of its scallops after at least 206 people became sick with hepatitis A, prompting an investigation by the US Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease control and Prevention.
Swimming pool parasite spreads across Phoenix area
Health officials in metropolitan Phoenix are working to stop a parasite outbreak at several swimming pools in Maricopa County that causes diarrhea.
UN: We have ‘moral responsibility’ to help Haitian cholera victims
In a major shift, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has indicated the United Nations is preparing to compensate for the cholera outbreak in Haiti that killed at least 10,000 people.
How children change the way we think about war
To a fortunate many, war is an abstraction and the suffering it brings, though easy to understand, is hard to truly imagine. It’s one of the reasons war photography and images of conflict are so essential. They bring these concepts into blinding focus and deny us the luxury of looking away.
Gold winner Simone Biles: I want to cliff-jump
Olympic champ Simone Biles reflects on being a role model to young girls and reveals the one thing she could never do while training that she can’t wait to try.
The next stop for elite athletes isn’t always clear
After the Olympic flame goes out, what happens to the athletes we’ve come to know and love over the last two weeks?
Unhealthy diet during pregnancy potentially linked to ADHD in kids
Everybody knows that a high-fat, high-sugar diet is not a good idea. It can have a wave of negative consequences on your health, including greater risks of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Local transmission of Zika confirmed in Miami Beach
There have been five locally transmitted cases of the Zika virus confirmed in an area of Miami Beach, Florida Governor Rick Scott said Friday. Three of those individuals were visitors to the area when they contracted the virus.
Police crash boy’s birthday party in best way possible
If you are throwing a party at your house, the last thing you want to see are police knocking at your door.
The disturbing statistic behind the ’22 Pushup Challenge’
If you’re wondering why your social media timeline looks like a Crossfit box, you can thank the newest online activism trend: The #22PushUpChallenge. Let’s discuss that number.
Police rescue autistic boy’s birthday party
Police in Yukon, Oklahoma, showed up at an autistic 3-year-old’s birthday party when none of his friends would.
Craig Sager on his cancer fight: ‘I will never give up’
The U.S. men’s basketball team missed having NBA sideline reporter Craig Sager at the Olympics in Rio. So they sent him a special message during the broadcast at the start of the games.
What a 5,300-year-old mummy wore to his grave
With goat-leather leggings and a brown bear fur hat, the 5,300-year-old mummy must have strutted the Alps with an eclectic style.
UN acknowledges involvement in Haiti cholera outbreak for first time
For the first time, the United Nations has acknowledged its own involvement in a devastating cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010 that killed at least 10,000 people.
Chrissy Teigen jokes about her stretch marks on Snapchat
The word “relatable” isn’t often used to describe supermodels — unless we’re talking about Chrissy Teigen.
Abused 4-year-old child tells police her name is ‘Idiot’
Police say she was called an “idiot” so often and for so long that it was the word that sprung to her young mind when a social worker asked her name.
Early warning signs of an asthma attack
Canadian cat sees pack of pit bulls and brings it
A cat named Baby took on seven pit bulls, sending one dog and its owner to the doctor.
A self-defense expert’s running safety tips
If you’ve read the news lately, you’ve probably learned about the tragic events involving two women who went out for a run and never made it home.
Knuckle-cracking is actually good for you
Knuckle cracking may sound horrible, but these scans show knuckle cracking is actually good for your hands.
The bizarre psychology of the bronze medal win
Bronze medalists tend to feel happier than silver medalists and it all comes down to “counterfactual thinking,” experts say.
McDonald’s removes fitness tracker from Happy Meals
McDonald’s is removing Step-It activity trackers from Happy Meals due to concerns over skin irritations, according to a statement sent to CNN on Wednesday.
Party drug ketamine closer to approval for depression
The Food and Drug Administration put the experimental drug esketamine (also known as ketamine) on the fast track to official approval for use in treating major depression, Janssen Pharmaceutical announced Tuesday. This designated “breakthrough therapy” would offer psychiatrists a new method for treating patients with suicidal tendencies and would qualify as the first new treatment for major depressive disorder in about half a century.
Fourth brain-eating amoeba case of the year being treated
An unidentified patient in Florida is being treated after being infected with a brain-eating amoeba last week, according to the Florida Department of Health. It is the fourth known case this year of infection by the parasite Naegleria fowleri.
Are music and happiness linked?
A new study out of Australia confirms what we probably already knew: People who dance and go to concerts regularly are pretty happy. While it may seem obvious, comparing happiness and the enjoyment of music can actually tell us a lot about how music affects us psychologically.
West Virginia city has 27 heroin overdoses in 4 hours
There were 27 heroin overdoses within four hours, including one death, in Huntington, West Virginia on Monday. Officials believe the drug may be laced with something making it particularly dangerous.
Local Zika cases on the rise in Florida
Florida Department of Health Investigators said Wednesday that there are three new non-travel-related cases of the Zika virus in their state, bringing the total number of non-travel-related cases to 33.
Shane Todd, of ‘Tips From Former Smokers’ campaign, dies
Shane Todd, a familiar face in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s well-known “Tips From Former Smokers” campaign, has died from complications of cancer. He was 49.
Paralyzed bride walks down the aisle, dances at reception
A Georgia woman, paralyzed for eight years, shocked friends and family when she got up from her wheelchair and walked down the aisle at her wedding.
Watching a star explode after ‘hibernating’
Amidst the billions of stars in the Milky Way, astronomers have witnessed the evolution of one as it exploded in what’s known as a classical nova after hibernating for years, according to a new study (PDF). It is the first time the transition of a white dwarf star with a low and unstable mass-transfer rate to a classical nova eruption has been observed, study author Przemek Mróz said.
Soccer star Alex Morgan on losing #LikeAGirl
Swaddling and SIDS: About that alarming study …
Swaddling, the art of snugly wrapping an infant in a garment for warmth and security, is a go-to for sleep-deprived parents the world over.
Stop using crib bumpers, doctors say
Worried about a significant uptick in infant deaths, doctors want parents to stop using crib bumpers.
Wild parakeets on track for world domination
Parakeets are Britain’s fastest-growing bird population, with breeding populations established in at least 65 cities across Europe.
Kentucky AG sues Johnson & Johnson over transvaginal mesh marketing
Strollers, car carriers send thousands of kids to ERs
How much a decade of obesity raises your cancer risk
The longer a woman is overweight or obese, the more her risk of cancer may increase along with the time.
14 million Africans to be vaccinated against yellow fever
Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo began an emergency vaccination campaign this week to curtail a yellow fever outbreak that has sickened thousands of people and killed more than 400, the World Health Organization said. The two countries, which together reported more than 6,136 suspected cases and 953 confirmed cases since the outbreak began in December, plan to vaccinate more than 14 million people in more than 8,000 locations.
Firefighter captures pic of terrifying ‘fire whirl’
Some say the world will end in fire, but even those who favor such a Frost-ian demise probably don’t want to be done in by something as abjectly terrifying as this “fire tornado”
Parent Acts: How to, like, get our kids to stop saying ‘like’
Verbal fillers such as “like” diminish the message. One way to convince children not to use the word is to show them how their speech sounds without it.
On the trail of a mysterious squirrel
Scientists are hot on the trail of an elusive and ancient squirrel-like creature called Zenkerella insignis. It’s got fur and paws like a squirrel’s but has a scaly-bottomed tail. For more than a century, researchers have been playing a real-life game of “Pokemon Go” with these creatures with absolutely no success … at least until now.
What will make vaccines work better in developing countries?
For Mohommad Mustakim, the risk of diarrhea is everywhere. The 4-year-old and his family live in a crowded slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where open sewage and poor sanitation increase the spread of diarrhea-causing viruses and bacteria.
The race to zero: Nigeria’s fight to wipe out polio
Ahmadu Kanduwa’s home is just two kilometers away from the local clinic in Nigeria’s northern Sumaila district — two kilometers from the vaccine that could have prevented his son, Isa, from contradicting polio more than a year ago. It’s something Kanduwa thinks about often.
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