Category Archives: Health

Sopranos Star James Gandolfini is gone….

James Gandolfini, the Emmy Award-winning actor best known for his work on HBO’s The Sopranos, has died in Italy, HBO confirms. The star is said to have suffered a sudden heart attack while on vacation on Wednesday, June 19. He was 51.

Read more »

Share on Facebook

Obesity as a disease…The AMA…..

While prevention is “key,” he said, “if that doesn’t work, we’ve got to implement treatment programs, and we’re not doing that very well.”

Read more »

Share on Facebook

Kim Kardashian gives birth to baby girl….

She’s the first child for the 32-year-old Kardashian, who has modeled, acted and launched business ventures but is best known as a reality TV star with a huge international following, having amassed some 18 million Twitter followers

Read more »

Share on Facebook

The US admits Syria Has used chemical weapons…..

President Obama said in April that the United States had physiological evidence that the nerve gas sarin had been used in Syria, but lacked proof of who used it and under what circumstances. He now believes that the proof is definitive, according to American officials……

Read more »

Share on Facebook

The House will vote on a Abortion limit bill shortly…..

Abortion politics — and the politics of rape — were back with a vengeance Wednesday, with House Judiciary Committee Republicans backing a nationwide ban on abortions after 20 weeks after the bill’s chief sponsor dismissed a Democratic push for exemptions for rape and incest.

Read more »

Share on Facebook

The Government will let girls of any age buy morning-after pill…

The Judge said in his ruling that in effect the Government was playing politics to appease a certain political groups wishes on birth control…. The ruling was applauded by women’s groups and denounced by Social Conservatives….. Sales of the pills …

Read more »

Share on Facebook

Major League Baseball to release results of Postive Drug tests for 20 players…

Alex Rodriguez is among approximately 20 players Major League Baseball will seek to suspend, perhaps in the next few weeks, for their alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs obtained through a Miami-area anti-aging clinic, according to an ESPN report last night.

Read more »

Share on Facebook

Political Roundup for June 4th, 2013…Rep Carol McCarthy being treated for Cancer…Red Racing Horses

NY-04: Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D) has lung cancer. Best wishes for her and her family. Luckily, her office says it’s a “treatable form of cancer.”

Read more »

Share on Facebook

The Work – Life Balance in America….Single Mothers Having it all?

The OECD Better Life Index, released last week, feeds the American instinct toward both jingoism and self-deprecation. In housing access and family wealth, it concludes that the U.S. really is the best country in the world. But we rank 28th among advanced nations in the category of “work-life balance,” ninth from the bottom.

This raises a thorny question: If we’re so rich, why are we working so hard that we don’t even have time to cherish the fruits of our productivity?

Read more »

Share on Facebook

Being poor in America…Daily Kos….

A few months ago a friend of mine asked me to tutor her son in Algebra. I had a good rep with her, I got her husband through Calculus in college. She asked me what I would charge and I told her all I needed was a healthy meal……

Read more »

Share on Facebook

The NFL doesn’t want to talk to Congress about HGH Growth Hormones use….

“We shone a light on something that wasn’t very pretty and it got cleaned up,” Davis said about the baseball hearings. “But it’s a lot harder and the risks are higher now” for the NFL.

Read more »

Share on Facebook

Another Sequestor adjustment..Weather Bureau will No Longer do fuloughs…

Sequestration is another term for the automatic budget cuts that hit the federal government earlier this year. The cuts have prompted mass furloughs of federal employees.

Read more »

Share on Facebook

Breaking…Twister hits Oklahoma City western suburb….5/31/13…10:00PM

A violent storm formed over the prairie west of Oklahoma City late Friday afternoon, dropped a tornado in a suburb and rolled into the state capital as viewers brave enough to remain above ground watched on statewide television. State troopers reported a number of injuries.

Read more »

Share on Facebook

What’s should you do…Walk or Run to stay healthy?

Walking and running are the most popular physical activities for American adults. But whether one is preferable to the other in terms of improving health has long been debated. Now a variety of new studies that pitted running directly against walking are providing some answers. Their conclusion? It depends almost completely on what you are hoping to accomplish.

Read more »

Share on Facebook

Oklahoma Storm toll dropped to 24…President vows to help with Federal Aid and Resources…

“For all those who’ve been affected, we recognize that you face a long road ahead,” Mr. Obama said. “In some cases, there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed. But you will not travel that path alone.”

Read more »

Share on Facebook

Breaking…51 Dead in Oklahoma Tornado…..Update Death toll dropped to 24

A massive tornado up to a mile wide chewed through Moore, Okla., a suburb of Oklahoma City, on Monday afternoon, grinding up entire neighborhoods and obliterating a school where third-graders who had huddled in a hallway were buried in rubble……

Read more »

Share on Facebook