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Inside the vigilante group of New Yorkers who hunt rats at night
Rats aren't only a part of New York City’s underground — they're an inseparable part of its pop culture. There’s Master Splinter from the Ninja Turtles, Pizza Rat, and even Cannibal Rat. But for every celebrity rat, there’s another 250,000 to 2 million anonymous rodents living in the city — and the city health department is fighting to bring down.
Last year, three people in a Bronx city block made the news for contracting leptospirosis through rat urine. Only two survived.
Inside the vigilante group
Wildlife experts urge Americans to catch, cook and EAT rat-like rodents terrorizing the nation
Gene Hackman, Betsy Arakawa’s property was ‘breeding ground for infestation’
Hotel employee, 26, dies of rare rat-linked virus
Rats attack ritzy NYC block
Parents, 24, are charged after hairy beast starts eating their six-month-old twins
Two cities axed fluoride from tap water... what happened to kids' health has experts terrified for the US
Children living in two cities that removed fluoride from drinking water are suffering from shocking levels of severe tooth decay, studies have found.
Concerns about the naturally occurring mineral's potential health risks drove local officials in Juneau, Alaska and the Canadian city of Calgary to stop adding fluoride to tap water in 2007 and 2011, respectively.
Since then, both cities have seen a surge in tooth decay among children.
Two cities axed fluoride from tap water
To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It's the only way
The science is clear: without drastic action to limit temperature rise below 1.5C, the Earth, and all life on it, including all human beings, will suffer devastating consequences.
To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It's the only way
Scientists fear Earth may have gone past the point of no return with climate change
Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds
Reforestation hopes threaten global food security, Oxfam warns
Patient in Guinea is killed by disease that causes 88% of sufferers to bleed to death
...it is considered a breach for a mother to throw her daughter a shower...
Why climate change activists have failed to score public support
US abortion numbers have risen
Filicide
Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation
Why are we catching more diseases from animals?
The world is grappling with the new coronavirus, which has spread from China to at least 15 other countries.
Outbreaks of new infectious diseases are typically seen as a "one off".
But the new virus - thought to have stemmed from wildlife - highlights our risk from animal-borne disease. This is likely to be more of a problem in future as climate change and globalisation alter the way animals and humans interact.
How can animals make people ill?
In the past 50 years, a host of infectious diseases have spread rapidly after making the evolutionary jump from animals to humans.
The HIV/Aids crisis of the 1980s originated from great apes, the 2004-07 avian flu pandemic came from birds, and pigs gave us the swine flu pandemic in 2009. More recently, it was discovered severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) came from bats, via civets, while bats also gave us Ebola.
Humans have always caught diseases from animals. In fact, most new infectious diseases come from wildlife.
Why are we catching more diseases from animals
Some pet owners are advocating against rabies vaccines
Hundreds of baby emperor penguins stranded on breakaway iceberg miraculously survive
Westfield Health Department Tells Owners to Keep Cats Indoors
It's time to worry about bird flu in cats
PS family says rat infestation caused severe illnesses and forced them out of their home
Rare virus that killed Gene Hackman's wife linked to 3 deaths in California town
Drug shortages reach 'public health emergency levels'
Up to 300 drugs are currently in shortage nationwide, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which is a five-year high.
They include everything from chemotherapy and antibiotics to a sterile fluid used to stop the heart in bypass operations and an antidote to lead poisoning.
Drug shortages reach 'public health emergency levels'
...these are the biggest scam drugs taken by millions
Gay actor Earl Holliman, star of Police Woman, Twilight Zone, and more, dies at 96
He acted in numerous major films in the 1950s and ’60s, including Giant, with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean; Broken Lance, playing one of the sons of rancher Spencer Tracy; Gunfight at the OK Corral, starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas; Forbidden Planet, a retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in outer space; The Sons of Katie Elder, with John Wayne and Dean Martin; and The Rainmaker, starring Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn. He won a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actor for The Rainmaker, playing Hepburn’s amorous younger brother — a role for which he beat out Elvis Presley.
Gay actor Earl Holliman
Why a Family Would Decline an Autopsy
Gene Hackman died of heart disease, his wife died of hantavirus about 1 week prior
Assisted dying: Campaigners renewed hope for change in the law
David Peace has motor neurone disease, a terminal illness which gradually affects the brain and nerves.
David, who lives in central London, is one of a number of people behind renewed calls to update England and Wales assisted dying laws to allow terminally ill people, with six months to live, the right to end their life, subject to strict criteria.
A second reading of the assisted dying bill is due to take place in the House of Lords this autumn.
Assisted dying: Campaigners renewed hope for change in the law
Jaime Osorio Márquez, dies by assisted suicide at 46
Inside the first Sarco pod suicide
Kenya court rules that criminalising attempted suicide is unconstitutional
'Suicide pod' creator revealed what makes people die after they step in the machine
My Traumatizing Years With Bryan Singer
Stuerman met Singer in 2009 in New York City when he was 18 years old, and entered into a sexual relationship with him shortly after; Singer was 43. Their time together ended after Stuerman was fired as Singer’s assistant in June 2013 on the film “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” which opened the following year. Stuerman believes his relationship with Singer was abusive and traumatic. He says he was further traumatized by witnessing an incident in 2012 in which Singer allegedly assaulted someone.
My Traumatizing Years With Bryan Singer
NATIONAL‘Ex-gay’ leader confesses to having gay sex in ‘multiple falls
Jealous Man Fatally Stabbed Boyfriend
My Agency Fired Me’ After I Refused to ‘Take My Clothes Off
Gay Bay Area millionaire is convicted of 1998 cold case shooting murder
Gay San Jose councilmember investigated for oral sex with minor
Tim Walz Accused Of 'Inappropriate' Student Relationship
Gay couple who sexually abused schoolboy then camped out in woods...
U.S. Marshals arrest fugitive gay sex offender
Founder of Surrey Pride, 40, had sex and smoked a bong with a 12-year-old boy
Young men reveal why they’re single
They’re single but they’re not mingling.
New data from the Pew Research Center has shown that 63% of men under 30 are single – up from 51% in 2019.
COVID isolation and women’s high expectations for something serious are the main reasons they’re avoiding going out and coupling up, young guys say.
“Dates feel more like job interviews now. Much more like ‘What can you do for me and where is this going?'” said Ian Breslow, a 28-year-old high school teacher who lives in Astoria.
Young men reveal why they’re single
11-year-old reads aloud from ‘pornographic’ book
‘I’m a father and I couldn’t do this’
Gay couple beaten in Times Square
A return to chastity?
Man, 26, poses as teen at high schools, now charged with sex crimes
‘I was sucking and cutting at the same time’
Why are so many gay men single?
I use 'we/us' pronouns but that's not why I missed out on a much-needed job
Dyslexic Gay Man Not Accepted By Tampa Bay Community
Some people thought he was trying to be funny and got mad about it. Then we found out he’s dyslexic but it’s still weird.
Dyslexic Gay Man Not Accepted
Italy not signing LGBTQ+ rights bill
Pronouns, tribal affiliations now forbidden in SD public univ. employee emails
Minnesota bans Gay & Trans Panic Defense
Hundreds of gay men evicted from Dallas hotel after AKA Sorority members complained about their attire
GLAAD’s Sarah Kate Ellis Under Fire
Ford exits LGBTQ+ index
This anti-DEI activist is targeting LGBTQ rights
I Have Tourette’s, and I’m Gay
Everyone Really Hates Anti-Vaxxers and Keto
Okay, everybody, the Worst Wellness Trend of the 2010s Tournament has officially drawn to a close, with anti-vaxxing claiming the number one slot once and for all. To be honest, we're not totally surprised. Parents who choose not to vaccinate their kids are, after all, notorious for lifting rhetoric from the reproductive rights movement and pretty much completely responsible for the revival of once-dead diseases like measles. Wellness rocks!
Everyone Really Hates Anti-Vaxxers and Keto
The Crime of Gay Sex
Cats Kill a Staggering Number of Species across the World
Exotic species such as pythons, Asian carp and cane toads often dominate the invasive species discourse. Few biological invaders, however, have wreaked as much ecological havoc as one of our most cuddly companions: cats.
Cats Kill a Staggering Number of Species
CHILDHOOD CAT EXPOSURE ONCE AGAIN LINKED TO SCHIZOPHRENIA
Wyoming hunter tortured wolf, paraded it around bar then shot it dead
Having a Cat Can Double Your Chances of Developing Schizophrenia
Horrifying last moments of mum eaten alive by safari park tiger
FURIOUS MONKEYS TEAR DOWN ANTI-MONKEY POSTERS
Dog owner allegedly decapitates bulldog after adopting him
City Defends Cop Who Shot Man's Blind, Deaf Dog
Las Vegas valley struggles with rabbit overpopulation
More Patients Are Losing Their Doctors — And Trust
Fred used to go to a community health center in Rhode Island, but then accessing care there began to frustrate her.
She described making repeated phone calls for a same-day appointment, only to be told that none were available and that she should try again tomorrow. After one visit, she said, one of her prescriptions never made it to the pharmacy.
And there was another time when she waited 40 minutes in the exam room to consult with a physician assistant — who then said she couldn’t give her a cortisone shot for her knee, as her doctor used to do.
Fred said that she won’t be going back.
More Patients...
2 red flag phrases that could signal that your doctor is dismissing your concerns
Men infected during mpox outbreak faced stigma, shame
Life-saving HIV clinic unexpectedly closes its doors with little explanation
Taking an antibiotic after sex helps gay men curb STDs
As the United States reckons with a burgeoning sexually transmitted disease crisis, a broadening chorus of public health experts are calling for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to endorse prescribing a preventive antibiotic pill to gay and bisexual men and transgender women at high risk of STDs.
Taking an antibiotic
More Younger People Are Getting Colorectal Cancers
Rise in infections of drug-resistant stomach bug
Shigellosis infection rising among gay & bi men
Young Gay Latinos See a Rising Share of New HIV Cases
New Calif. bill would force restaurants to offer only water or milk as drink options on kids menus
Newly passed legislation in California would prohibit restaurants from offering any drinks other than water or milk on kids menus. Now it’s headed to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk for his signature.
What are the details?
Senate Bill 1192 dictates that menus at privately owned businesses can list only water or milk as default drink options to accompany kids meals. The purported aim is to curb obesity and diabetes in children by discouraging the consumption of sugar-laden beverages.
New Calif. bill would force restaurants
McDonald’s is getting rid of free drink refills