Of course not. Drug addicts who don’t get the help they need get worse, and their addictions grow and grow, until their compulsion has consumed everyone and everything around them. They destroy families. They turn to crime. They put other people in danger. They make bad decisions, stick around in violent relationships, have children they’re in no position to raise. They get sick. They don’t work. The ripple effects of their addictions go on and on and on....
Well, not quite fallen, not yet. But Sununu himself dropped the next shoe, getting caught at the weekend in a false account of who had paid for one of his political trips on a corporate jet. NEWSWEEK learned that George Bush was furious when he was told about it. Sununu was slapped with new and humiliating curbs on his travels. But top Bush advisers who had chafed under his reign were now in open rebellion, urging that he be fired....
He can laugh now. It’s the surest sign yet of the progress he’s made since April 24, 2004, when Smith, then a captain with an Arkansas National Guard unit stationed near Baghdad, was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade. The three-foot-long missile lodged in his right hip, exploding as Smith’s commanding officer rushed to help him. The blast cut Smith’s rescuer in half. It blew off Smith’s right arm and ripped open his abdomen, destroying one kidney and shredding his intestines, and shattering his femur and right hip....
To prevent allergy development in the first place, the American Academy of Pediatrics strongly recommends breast-feeding exclusively for the first six months. If a nursing baby shows allergy symptoms (like itchy rashes), Mom should avoid milk, eggs, fish, peanuts and tree nuts–some of the most common culprits. If you have a family history of allergies, wait until your baby turns 1 to introduce cow or soy milk. At 2, he can try eggs, and at 3, introduce nuts and fish....
To calculate how many steps you take buy a pedometer, a motion-sensitive device that resembles a tiny beeper and clips onto your waistband. “It’s a great motivator,” says Dixie Thompson, the study’s lead author. Penn State University exercise physiologist Guy Le Masurier recommends the Walk4Life LS2525 ($29, available at walk4life.com) and the Yamax Digi-Walker SW-701 ($24 to $30, at thepedometercompany .com). Track the number of steps you take on an ordinary day and work up to your goal....
Many of the pain relievers, sedatives and paralytics that are used in lethal injection protocols are the same drugs needed to calm patients in order to attach them to a ventilator, which requires intubation. “These medicines were never made or developed to cause death – to the contrary, many were formulated to connect patients to life‐saving ventilators and lessen the discomfort of intubation,” the letter states. The availability of midazolam, a commonly used sedative that is also part of some death penalty protocols, is currently facing several shortages, according to the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP), an industry association that regularly communicates with manufacturers....
A woman, posting under the name SemyKitten on TikTok and reportedly a health inspector, has been sharing a series of videos for prospective customers worried about hygiene ratings. SemyKitten initially shared a video for the residents of Down Under in June, but after it blew up on the site, amassing nearly 4 million views, she shared another clip for Americans. In her initial post, she explained more about her job, saying: “So I’m a health inspector, I inspect every single place that sells foods from supermarkets to food trucks....
Last year, as America’s health insurance behemoths raked in staggering profits in the midst of a brutal pandemic, defenders of the revenue haul pointed to 2021 as the time when things would even out. People who’d been afraid to go to the doctor or who had postponed an elective procedure, industry spokespeople predicted, would come out in droves in the new year. Insurance companies would start paying more claims and making less money....
There are many aspects to getting quality medical care. There is the medical care itself, such as diagnosis and treatment. There is the billing and payment aspect, which follows all medical care. And there is one aspect of good health care that is sometimes not recognized until it presents its challenges: navigating one’s way through the system. Health and patient navigators are the experts who help patients experience the best of the healthcare system by helping them navigate it successfully....
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(The face off begins around the 8-minute mark, and, not surprisingly, it contains plenty of NSFW language.) MORE: Conor McGregor roars back to win Round 2 of world tour The full transcript of what was said: Floyd Mayweather: Let’s go face-to-face. Conor McGregor: Shut your mouth. Floyd Mayweather: Yea, yea, yea, yea, yea, yea. Conor McGregor: Look in my eye. I’m gonna bounce your head off the canvas. That’s what I do....
It’s well known that heart failure puts someone at a higher risk of contracting and becoming severely ill with viral respiratory infections. Even though COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk of COVID-19 infections, people with heart failure and other high-risk conditions are still at increased risk for infection. Heart Failure and COVID-19 Risk People with a pre-existing heart problem like heart failure are about 10% to 20% more likely to experience severe illness from COVID-19 compared to people with healthy hearts....
Every year, humanity produces around 300 million tons of plastic, with about eight million tons of the material entering the world’s oceans—according to the United Nations Environmental Program. This flow of debris severely impacts the ocean environment and marine life. Plastic pieces are frequently ingested by a wide range of animals—either directly, by mistaking it for food, or indirectly through the consumption of prey. “Plastic pollution disrupts the normal behavior of animals, and the normal functions of ecosystems,” Elizabeth Mendenhall, from the University of Rhode Island’s Department of Marine Affairs, told Newsweek....
Miami opens the 2019-20 season Wednesday at home against the Grizzlies. “There were a number of unacceptable incidents this week, culminating with his unprofessional conduct on the bench (Friday) night,” Heat president Pat Riley said in a statement issued by the team (via the Miami Herald). “As a consequence, I feel we had to suspend him.” The one-game suspension will cost Waiters $83,448, according to ESPN.com. Riley spoke in April about “tightening the screws” on the Heat’s “culture,” according to the Herald, which added, “(i)t looks like that plan is already being put into action....
So what’s behind this symptom? Why does heat bother us and cause so many symptoms to kick up? First of all, it’s because many of us have temperature sensitivities to either heat, cold or both. We have a larger physiological response to temperature than other people. We don’t know a lot about this symptom at the moment, but we know enough to suspect that it’s the result of dysfunction in our autonomic nervous system, which is the part of the nervous system that deals with homeostasis....
DeSantis was speaking to reporters on Monday at the OneBlood Headquarters in Orlando, encouraging people who had recovered from the disease to donate their plasma. During his address, a group of masked protesters interrupted proceedings and called for his resignation, shouting, “shame on you” and “you are lying.” DeSantis waited for the hecklers to be escorted outside, where they continued their protest, pounding on windows and venting their anger via megaphone....
The Steelers’ home is set to be renamed Acrisure Stadium, after a Michigan-based insurance company, the team announced Monday. The Steelers sold the naming rights for an undisclosed amount, and the stadium will take on its new name in 2022. Early returns make it appear Steelers fans are as likely to call it by its new name as Bronco fans are to adopt “Empower Field at Mile High.” MORE: Panthers hope Baker Mayfield trade cleanses them...
Katie Posten discovered an almost 80-year-old family photo stuck to her car window—a surprising enough find, let alone the realization it had made its way from a home impacted by the tornadoes. On Friday, December 10, tornadoes tore through the state of Kentucky, with a current death toll of at least 80 and destroying homes and businesses. Initially, Posten had suspected it was a note of sorts tucked onto her car: “Peeled it off the car....
You have to understand: Helen Hunt is Sunny Randall. Or she will be. So far Sunny is merely the protagonist of Parker’s 34th book. But he created this character specifically for Hunt, at her request. Last year, after she’d won her Oscar and was able to do pretty much what she wanted, she decided she wanted Parker to write a book for her. A man who has 5 million copies of his books in print does not do anything he doesn’t want to, but Parker took the meeting out of curiosity....
We know the other coaches in this College Football Playoff, all right. Alabama’s Nick Saban, Ohio State’s Urban Meyer and Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher reign as the three kings of the FBS who have parceled six of the last eight national championships. Helfrich is seemingly the “other guy,” and the face-value judgment is a happy-go-lucky guy who inherited that Nike-fueled space ranger program Mike Bellotti and Chip Kelly built with the help of Phil Knight; the guy who played off the “Jesus, girls and Marcus Mariota” this season and another bizarre question about whether or not he was ready for the 49ers at his last press conference Thursday....
