New Users of ADHD Medications May Experience Psychosis

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Medications such as Adderall and Vyvanse are commonly prescribed to patients with ADHD. New research is showing that patients taking these newly prescribed amphetamines are more likely to develop psychosis, which may include hallucinations, paranoia, and delusions, when compared to those who have received a prescription for methylphenidates, such as Ritalin or Concerta. Prescription amphetamines…

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Man Hospitalized After Sniffing His Own Socks

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A man has been hospitalized after smelling his socks for too long. A 37-year-old father (named only Peng in local reports) in Zhangzhou, southeast China, began to feel chest pains. After showing up at a hospital he was admitted as an emergency case, and given an X-ray to determine the cause of his pain, as well as…

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Bodybuilders Have Entered the Breast Milk Market

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How far would you go to increase your muscle mass? This is a question to ask some of the bodybuilders and weightlifters of the world, as their latest interest is apparently purchasing breast milk online. It’s not uncommon to purchase breast milk. There are some mothers who over-produce milk for various reasons. If there is…

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Thailand Supermarket Ditches Plastic Packaging For Banana Leaves

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It’s always better to find natural solutions to real-world problems. The Rimping Supermarket in Chiangmai, Thailand has taken drastic steps towards ditching plastic wrapping as a packaging solution. They decided that the amount of plastic being wasted in the world every day is already enough. From a real estate company’s Facebook post, people all over…

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Light and Sound Therapy Shows Potential for Treating Alzheimer’s Disease

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As science evolves, we are discovering more and more therapeutic techniques to conquer some of our most debilitating conditions. Research led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is exploring the potential of strobe lights and low frequency sounds to recreate the brain waves lost in Alzheimer’s disease [1]. This technique of light and sound has…

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Stock Tank Pools Are the Future, Starting This Summer

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Pools in the summer are life savers. You would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t enjoy a refreshing, cool dip in the hot summer. Public pools are available, no doubt, but who doesn’t like the idea of a pool in their backyard? It can be way more hygienic and comfortable. Overall, having your…

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80-Year-Old Man Hasn’t Watered This Sealed Bottle Garden since 1972 And It’s Still Alive

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“A weed is a normal plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” – Doug Larson When David Latimer was creating this terrarium garden, he certainly didn’t know it was going to turn out to be this magical. He planted the seedling as a simple experiment in 1960,…

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Meteor No One Saw Coming Exploded Over Earth with Force of 10 Atomic Bombs

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Do you remember the meteoroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013? It was the largest meteoroid impact ever recorded by NASA, and we just had another one almost as strong. According to NASA, the second-largest recorded meteoroid impact exploded over the Bering Sea in December. The meteoroid was approximately the size of a school bus…

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Boy Scouts Welcome First Girls Joining Local Troop With Brand-new Uniforms

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Troop 339 of the Scouts BSA recently honored six young girls who recently joined their troop in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. It’s amazing how the BSA is cultivating the values of gender equality in their youngsters. Since February 2019, more than 3000 girls between the ages of 11-17 have enrolled in the BSA, after the decision…

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The Amazing Benefits of Music Therapy for Autistic Children

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Music is a universal language that connects people of all ages and walks of life. Music benefits both the young and old emotionally and spiritually. It is used in many ways to reach deep into a person’s emotions and open them up. Because music can affect a person emotionally and cognitively, more than any instrument…

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Truths About C-Section Moms

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As more and more birth stories sweep their way across blogs and social media, let’s take a moment to appreciate the unsung heroes. Here’s to the moms who didn’t get to choose their story, and for those that carefully chose what was right for them. All birth is beautiful and neither method of bringing a…

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It’s Not a Done-Deal Yet, But Florida Lawmakers Just Voted to Keep Daylight Saving Time All Year Long

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Daylight saving time (DST) is a sunlight conservation practice where the clocks are uniformly advanced to one hour ahead of the standard of the time in the summer, and back again in the fall [1]. In the United States, DST begins at 2:00 am on March 11 and ends on November 4. It’s a common…

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“It Was Like Opening a Time Capsule”: Construction Crew Reunites Woman with Purse She Lost 65 Years Ago

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When 81-year-old Marty Ingham Everett was 16 years old, her little black purse decided to play a number on her. It fell out of her handbag and landed behind the cabinet in the science room at Jeffersonville High in Indiana. This happened in 1954 and she never saw it again, until now. Erin Bojorquez, who…

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Missouri Police Raid Hospital Room of Stage 4 Cancer Patient Using Cannabis

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The altercation was filmed by the patient himself. Nolan Sousley is a stage 4 pancreatic cancer patient receiving treatment at Citizen’s Memorial Hospital, Bolivar, Missouri. On Thursday the 7th of March, he received a shake-down from the cops following a phone call reporting him to be in possession of cannabis. Nolan uploaded the live video…

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Missouri Police Raid Hospital Room of Stage 4 Cancer Patient Using Cannabis

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The altercation was filmed by the patient himself. Nolan Sousley is a stage 4 pancreatic cancer patient receiving treatment at Citizen’s Memorial Hospital, Bolivar, Missouri. On Thursday the 7th of March, he received a shake-down from the cops following a phone call reporting him to be in possession of cannabis. Nolan uploaded the live video…

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Illinois Nurse Adopts Baby from Intensive Care Unit

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Angela Farnan, a primary charge nurse at OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois has officially become a mother to one of the tiny patients she cared for in the pediatric intensive care unit. Born with a congenital heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Blaze had his first surgery when he was just 3 days old….

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Oldest Mall In America Turned Into Tiny Homes

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America’s oldest indoor shopping mall has been completely re-imagined since it was first built in 1828. Its three storeys were once a haven for retail therapy, but its doors were shut to the public when it went out of business in 2008. Of course, as you might have guessed, that wasn’t the end of the…

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Seed Cycling for Hormonal Balance

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Seed cycling has been a long-standing therapy to aid in hormone balance as part of our menstrual cycle as certain seeds and oils are consumed to balance the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone in women. It is used for a variety of hormone-related concerns, used as treatment or part of a lifestyle, as there can…

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Dad Travels to Canada for Son’s Medicine That Would Cost $53K in U.S.

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“So right now, I’m paying $15,000 a year for this medicine, which costs in the United States $53,000 a year which I feel is… at best, criminal,” father Jon Yeagley told CBS News correspondent Tony Dokoupil early February 2019. (1) Yeagley has been taking an expensive 6.5 hour trip north of the border every three…

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The Cause of Alzheimer’s Could Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth, Study Claims

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Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative neurological condition that is known for its debilitating symptoms, such as memory loss, confusion, and loss of identity. The two hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease are the formation of plaques …

A Nap Desk Is Exactly What You Need To Be Productive At Work

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The nap is mightier than caffeine. Long nights and drowsy mornings are as close as the numbers 5 and 6. Nearly everyone who stays up at night and has to get to work in the morning can relate to this. Espresso machines have become a strong pillar of nearly every office building across the world….

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