Social media users didn’t buy President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to spin the narrative on the coronavirus crisis. “Coronavirus deaths are way down,” Trump boasted on Twitter late Thursday, as the United States saw yet another record spike in confirmed cases of the virus nationwide. Trump also falsely claimed the mortality rate in the United States […]
(Reuters) – TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music took partial credit for inflating attendance expectations at a less-than-full arena at President Donald Trump’s first political rally in months, held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday. Social media users on platforms including the popular video-sharing app have said they completed the free online registration for […]
President Donald Trump hasn’t given the rally scheduled for Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a special name, but, thankfully, Twitter users have stepped in to fill the void. As of Friday, the hashtag #coronapalooza was a trending term. It’s quite appropriate, since many medical experts fear the rally could cause a spike in COVID-19 cases. The […]
Men and women who use dating apps may be at increased risk of controlling their weight in unhealthy ways, a study suggests. The US research, based on a survey of 1,700 adults, found vomiting, laxative use and fasting were most common. But they said a direct link could not be proved and more research was […]
No one can seriously call french fries are “healthy” and keep a straight face, but one Harvard researcher has managed to depress the world by revealing just how bad they are for you. Last year, Eric Rimm, a Harvard Epidemiology and Nutrition professor, co-authored a study for The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on the […]
Twitter users were appalled on Wednesday when an official with the Department of Health and Human Services decided to celebrate Halloween by tweeting an insensitive joke about Medicare. Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which falls under HHS, joked on Twitter that the “scariest Halloween costume” would be a […]
People with severe allergies have been told they can use their EpiPens past their normal expiry date, amid a continuing shortage of the devices. The medicines regulator said it had agreed to extend the use-by date of some EpiPens by four months. It comes as parents told the BBC their children’s supplies were due to […]
In Wilmington, North Carolina, Robert Childs went to Home Depot to get supplies to board up the windows on his home before he fled the city for Atlanta in advance of Hurricane Florence. “During the storm, everything gets disrupted,” said Childs, a drug policy consultant at the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition. “It’s about getting everyone to […]
As the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration weighs the legal future of kratom, five states have already banned the botanical drug, making criminals out of the people who say they rely on it to improve their quality of life. HuffPost spoke with more than a dozen kratom consumers currently or formerly living in those states ― […]