American With No Medical Training Ran Center For Malnourished Ugandan Kids. 105 Died

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Ten years ago, Renee Bach left her home in Virginia to set up a charity to help children in Uganda. One of her first moves was to start a blog chronicling her experiences. Among the most momentous: On a Sunday morning in October 2011, a couple from a village some distance away showed up at...

Cheesesteak Stuffed Peppers

Via: sandy-2021492  •  THE NEWSTALKERS COOKBOOK  •  42 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  5 years ago

So, I found the pic and accompanying recipe for the group avatar that seemed to interest many of us.  This does not mean that I have tried this recipe; I haven't.  But it sounds good, and it looks like it's low-carb, too.

Gum disease and heart disease: The common thread

Via: sandy-2021492  •  Health, Science & Technology  •  37 Comments  •  7 Likes  •  5 years ago

“How plaque on your teeth may be connected to plaque in your arteries.”

People with gum disease (also known as periodontal disease) have two to three times the risk of having a heart attack, stroke, or other serious cardiovascular event. But there may not be a direct connection. Many people with heart disease have healthy gums, and not everyone with gum disease...

A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases

Via: sandy-2021492  •  Health, Science & Technology  •  18 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  5 years ago

“Evolution might have played a trick on women’s immune systems.”

Autoimmune diseases turn people’s own immune systems against their bodies. In the United States alone, women represent 80 percent of all cases of autoimmune disease. Women are 16 times more likely than men to get Sjogren’s syndrome, in which the immune system goes after the glands that make...

China forcefully harvests organs from detainees, tribunal concludes

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“China's organ transplant trade is worth $1 billion a year, according to a tribunal.”

The organs of members of marginalized groups detained in Chinese prison camps are being forcefully harvested — sometimes when patients are still alive, an international tribunal sitting in London has concluded. Some of the more than 1.5 million detainees in Chinese prison camps are being...

The Worst Patients in the World

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“Americans are hypochondriacs, yet we skip our checkups. We demand drugs we don’t need, and fail to take the ones we do. No wonder the U.S. leads...”

For years, the United States’ high health-care costs and poor outcomes have provoked hand-wringing, and rightly so: Every other high-income country in the world spends less than America does as a share of GDP, and surpasses us in most key health outcomes. Recriminations tend to focus on how...

I Didn’t Kill My Baby

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“When he was born, my husband at the time and I knew he couldn’t survive. That doesn’t make me a murderer.”

On Feb. 5, during the State of the Union address, President Trump implied that women like me executed our babies after birth. On Tuesday, he repeated that same lie on Twitter after the nonsensical Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act failed to gain enough votes in the Senate to move forward. The...

How a 3 a.m. bar fight left a WV delegate blind

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More than 12 years after Eric Porterfield lost his vision in a parking lot brawl, his legal battle against the bar where it happened continues. Porterfield, now a Republican member of the House of Delegates from Mercer County, started that night in 2006 at a strip club in Harvey,...

Woman who called Michelle Obama an 'ape' defrauded FEMA of $18K

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The West Virginia woman who made national headlines in 2016 when she was placed on leave from a county development organization over a demeaning Facebook post about then-first lady Michelle Obama has now pleaded guilty to defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency out of thousands of...

Outlawing Late Abortion Seemed Like Such a Reasonable Idea Until I Needed One Myself

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Before I found myself in this dire position, I never understood the need for third trimester abortion. In my naivety, I did not realize that extreme actions are inspired by extreme circumstances. Good people in hard times must do hard things. Government interference, like abortion bans, makes...