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April 26th, 2013
April 17th, 2013
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February 13th, 2013
Coroner Links Mom's Death to Coke 'Addiction'
“In toxicology, everything comes down to dose. And it sounds as though she was certainly taking an excessive dose,” he said, adding that drinking two gallons of soda per day with limited amounts of food can cause a dangerous imbalance in electrolytes. “You’re also not getting essential nutrients when you’re only drinking Coke. You’re basically getting sugar, and you’re going to be deficient in vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients.”
Harris’s reported Coke habit would have delivered more than 2.2 pounds of sugar daily, according to the coroner’s report. She would have also ingested nearly a gram of caffeine, according to Coca-Cola’s website.
January 24th, 2013
There is no one who doesn’t have health care in America. No one.
January 8th, 2013
Madrid, Spain: a young woman protests against healthcare privatisation Photograph: Lawrence JC Baron/Demotix/Corbis
January 4th, 2013
University Stops Sales of Bottled Water
The Univ. of Vermont will become one of the first institutions nationwide to end the sale of bottled water on campus and mandate that one-third of drinks offered in vending machines be healthy options. The decision marks the advent of a long-awaited systematic sustainable beverage policy after years of lobbying by students and the greater campus community.
The announcement comes five months prior to the end of a ten-year contract with Coca-Cola of Northern New England that allowed the company to provide 100 percent of beverages in vending machines and 80 percent of bottled beverages served in retail, residential dining and catering, totaling more than 1.1 million bottles per year.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/01/university-stops-sales-bottled-water
November 11th, 2012
The human bot fly, Dermatobia hominis (Linnaeus Jr., 1781), is a large, densely haired fly that looks like a bumblebee (Kahn 1999). The human bot fly is native to Central and South America. The fly is not known to transmit disease-causing pathogens, but the larvae of D. hominis will infest the skin of mammals and live out the larval stage in the subcutaneous layer, causing painful pustules that secrete fluids. The infestation of any fly larvae inside the body is known as myiasis.
Dermatobia hominis larvae cause a raised lesion in the skin that becomes hard and sometimes painful. In some cases the patients can feel the larvae moving when they shower or cover the wound (Haruki et al. 2005, Sampson et al. 2001). The host reacts with elevated white cell counts and a high amount of macrophages can be found around the wound. For this reason, the lesion often secretes pus.
Dermatobia hominis survives in its host by breathing through spiracles that are flush with the skin. In order to coax the larva out, the spiracles need to be covered. They can be covered with bacon, petroleum jelly, beeswax, or any other thick substance that prevents the larvae from breathing. The larvae will come up out of the lesion to breathe allowing it to be removed with forceps.
In some cases the larva maybe popped out by applying pressure around the wound. Tamir et al. (2003b) cited a technique that used two wooden spatulas to apply pressure to pop the larva out. There may be some difficulty with this method due to the spines that anchor the larvae in the wound.
Dermatobia hominis is indigenous from Mexico in the north to Paraguay and northeast Argentina in the south.
holy fuck disgusting
October 11th, 2012
You go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it’s paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital. We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance.
September 23rd, 2012
I lost another 5 lbs since tw last time I weighed myself. Slowly losing the tubby. 140 - probably the lightest I’ve been in over 10 years #eddyizm #self #selfportrait #mirror #gpoy #me #fitness #exercise #health not bad for an old man. (Taken with Instagram)
