HPV Vaccine Causing Health Problems, Including Paralysis (TSO Called This A Year Ago)

Hat tip: Truth (first one)
“Gardasil certainly made headlines in 2006 when the Food and Drug Administration approved it as a vaccine against four strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer.
HPV can be transmitted sexually, so many parents decided to give the vaccination to their teenaged daughters.
Now, Gardasil is making headlines [...]

Being Mama Daily: America’s Milk

You may be surprised to learn that most of the human beings that live on planet Earth today do not drink or use cow’s milk.

Further, most of them can’t drink milk because it makes them ill. There are students of human nutrition who are not supportive of milk use for adults. Here is a quotation [...]

Sign the Damn Donor Card

From the Chicago Tribune.
The preferred treatment for kidney failure is an organ transplant. But although African-Americans suffer from kidney disease at higher rates than whites, they are less likely to be referred for transplants, less likely to be placed on a waiting list and less likely to get kidneys once on the list, according to [...]

HIV resurges in men who have sex with men

“A new analysis of HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men points to a troubling  increase in new cases among young men, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.
“Public health experts use the term “men who have sex with men,” or MSM, because many of these men are not strictly homosexual or even bisexual.
“Between 2001 [...]

Diabetes Up 15% In Just Two Years

Big Wayne, pictured.
“The number of Americans with diabetes increased by 15 percent in two years to nearly 24 million, public health officials reported yesterday.
“Almost 8 percent of the total population now has the disease, which is linked to obesity and sedentary living, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The latest numbers [...]

Gloucester High’s Pregancy Pact

“As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies—more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers. But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least [...]

Guest Commentary From JD: How Many Of You Have Had an HIV Test?

Guest Commentary By JD.
“National HIV Testing Day is an annual campaign to encourage at-risk individuals to receive voluntary HIV counseling and testing.  This year the day is June 27, 2008. 
 
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 180,000 to 280,000 people nationwide are HIV-positive but are unaware of their status. Nationally, Blacks represent [...]

Life Expectancy Rises 4 Months In Just One Year

“U.S. life expectancy has hit a new record: 78.1 years for babies born in 2006, says the CDC.
“What’s more, the death rate for 11 of the top 15 causes of death — including heart disease, cancer, and stroke — slowed in 2006.
“That’s what the CDC’s preliminary data show, based on some 2.4 million deaths in [...]

Autism Activists

There is a growing number of people with Autism and Asperger Syndrome who are speaking out about their condition.  They are not advocating for a cure. They are advocating to accepted as who they are.
The first person to articulate the autism-rights position, Jim Sinclair, has produced only a few page-long essays. In his seminal invective, [...]

I’ll Pass On The Red Bull & Vodka

“Health researchers have identified a surprising new predictor for risky behavior among teenagers and young adults: the energy drink.
“Super-caffeinated energy drinks, with names like Red Bull, Monster, Full Throttle and Amp, have surged in popularity in the past decade. About a third of 12-to 24-year-olds say they regularly down energy drinks, which account for more [...]