This week in health news around the world
When smiling isn’t happiness When human and chimpanzee infants are dozing, they sometimes show facial movements that resemble smiles. These facial expressions — called spontaneous smiles — are cons...
View Article19 Double Duty Beauty Tips Every Woman Should Know
Inspired by our collaboration with Birchbox. View this image › Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed 1. Use lip balm to tame eyebrows. Getty Images / Thinkstock burtsbees.com A wax-based balm will keep hairs...
View ArticleRyan Lochte’s mom talks about son’s sex life, Dr. Ruth is not impressed; Updated
http://twitter.com/#!/AskDrRuth/status/231043686778163202 Yes, you read that correctly. On “Today,” Ike Lochte told us little more than we needed to know about her swimmer son. And by “a little,” we...
View ArticleYou Won’t Believe How People Used To Treat Serious Medical Conditions
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTAT_ATF’); }); As it turns out, 2016 might not be the future we were promised when we were younger. There are no flying cars, and it seems like...
View ArticleAs If You Needed Another Reason To Fear Climate Change…It Could Bring Back...
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); For those of us paying attention, it’s safe to say that climate change is the scariest thing that humanity will have to face in...
View ArticleKaci Hickox won’t relinquish spotlight, refuses Maine quarantine rules
http://twitter.com/#!/fjbar75/status/527242638370803712 Yesterday Twitchy reported on Kaci Hickox leaving quarantine in New Jersey. Ebola aid worker Kaci Hickox to be released from New Jersey...
View ArticleDems ‘rattled’ by O-care train wreck: Really? Here’s why in one truth-slam
http://twitter.com/#!/STriiz/status/399232886500376577 Oh the schadenfreude! Twitter has been buzzing over an article at CNN that described Democrats as “nervous” with “rattling nerves” due to the...
View ArticleYour children are what you eat: study
“Unfortunately people are not doing very well in terms of diet quality. Parents had better diet quality than kids, but only by a little bit,” said Shannon Robson from University of Delaware in the U....
View ArticleBarf: Bill Burton plays ‘lady parts’ card over criticism of Susan Rice
http://twitter.com/#!/billburton716/status/268765906195337216 Says the man who loves the ladies so darn much he took a $1 million donation to President Obama’s super PAC from foul-mouthed misogynist...
View ArticleProtests in Tripoli against militia leave 46 dead, 460 wounded [photos]
http://twitter.com/#!/TasnimShebani/status/401713674131603456 How’s that Arab Spring working out for the people of Libya? Terribly. Yesterday, clashes between freedom-seekers and Libyan militiamen in...
View ArticleKidney racket: doctors meet health minister
Apprehensive of an adverse impact on organ transplant programmes in the country following the arrests of doctors in the kidney racket at the L.H. Hiranandani Hospital, a delegation of medical experts...
View ArticlePriyanka Gandhi involved in picking UP candidates – Times of India
With Congress president Sonia Gandhi suffering from ill health, her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has emerged the de facto leader of the party’s campaign for the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls....
View Article50 Cent hospitalized after car crash, vehicle almost flipped by Mack truck
http://twitter.com/#!/PhillyCustoms/status/217655814406676480 50 Cent has been one of the biggest victims of the Twitter Death Hoax. He’s had multiple faked reports about car crashes, and about his...
View ArticleHHS tweets promo for same-sex marriage Obamacare benefits
http://twitter.com/#!/HHSGov/status/480469718420029440 The latest #GetCovered tweet from Health and Human Services features a same-sex couple on a wedding cake and the hashtag #LoveIsLove, presumably...
View Article11 Horrifying Ingredients In Vintage Beauty Products (And The Ones You Use...
People have been wearing makeup for centuries. I mean, Ancient Egyptians basically wrote the book on winged liner, am I right? Whether they were 18th-century gals looking to be pale as ghosts, or...
View Article9 Signs That Your Body Is Screaming For Better Nutrition
We’ve been told since childhood that eating healthy food makes us stronger, which, if you’re gross like me, you’ve interpreted as eating an apple once every Arbor Day or so. But as it turns out, your...
View ArticleMissing in action: The Federalist tracks down America’s invisible Ebola czar
http://twitter.com/#!/PeteKaliner/status/522107256448749568 The government’s confused response to the Ebola epidemic has had some calling for the appointment of an Ebola czar to head the United States’...
View ArticleCongressional Budget Office has doubled projected cost of Obamacare
It’s enough to make you sick. Democrats employed many accounting tricks when they were pushing through the national health care legislation, the most egregious of which was to delay full implementation...
View ArticleIce Age: Collision Course review: time for Ice Age films to go extinct
Like with a partner in a long-term relationship, we stick by a franchise through health and sickness in the hope that what it lacks in freshness, it will provide for in depth and meaning. In the case...
View ArticleThis Man Wanted To Do Some Pushups, But His Dog Had Other Plans
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); The 22 pushup challenge was started to raise awareness about a specific danger our veterans face daily. On average, every day,...
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