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JohnsonU.S. Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, responded to a man claiming COVID vaccines give people AIDS by telling him "everything you say may be true." Johnson was speaking to Todd Callendar, who bills himself as an "international lawyer" and "leader of a group trying to stop the Biden regime's effort to destroy the U.S. military via injections of the so-called vaccine that contains HIV." During Callendar and Johnson's conversation on the rightwing video-sharing platform Rumble, Callendar again claimed the various COVID vaccines give users AIDS and that health officials need to be "held accountable." "You've got more than a hundred doctors here, all of whom will tell you these shots caused vaccine-induced AIDS," Callendar said, even though no reputable doctor has made ...

Hundreds of lives could be saved from prostate cancer if men lost weight, a major study suggests. Experts from the University of Oxford looked at measurements of over 2.5million men. Every five-point increase in BMI — about 2.5st (35lbs) for the average British man — was associated with a 10 per cent greater odds of dying of prostate cancer. Five points is enough to take someone from being of a healthy weight to overweight, or overweight to obese.  The researchers estimate that bulging waistlines are responsible for 1,300 prostate cancer death in Britain each year. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK, with around 52,000 diagnosed every year. In the US, around 165,000 are diagnosed, with nearly 30,000 deaths.  Every five point increase in body ma...

While New Jersey has yet to record a case of the mysterious hepatitis in children, state health officials are on the lookout as the string of severe liver infections grows throughout the U.S. and around the globe. “At this time, the (New Jersey) Department of Health is not aware of any cases among children in New Jersey. We are monitoring for any reports of potential cases,” a spokeswoman for the state health department said in an email. Roughly 30 cases of unexplained hepatitis have been reported across 10 U.S. states, and nearly 300 probable cases have been identified worldwide. Most of the patients live in the United Kingdom. The cases have baffled experts. They could be linked to the adenovirus — a virus that can cause the common cold — but their origin remains unclear. Here’s ...

I'm a mom of two kids, 10 and 12, both of whom have been diagnosed with ADHD. It wasn't until the pandemic that I noticed how different they were from their classmates. I learned that my parenting needed to change to align with their needs. Loading Something is loading. Before I learned that my children, ages 10 and 12, have ADHD, I struggled to make them behave at home and in public, which was a source of constant embarrassment. I found myself screaming, bribing,...

Eating spinach like Popeye won't just make you stronger — it may protect you from dementia, a study suggests. People with high levels of three key antioxidants in their blood are less likely to get the memory-robbing disorder, researchers found. Two of the compounds — lutein and zeaxanthin — are abundant in leafy green veg, as well as peas. Oranges and papaya are major sources of the other, beta-cryptoxanthin. Lead researcher Dr May Beydoun, an expert in aging from the US National Institutes of Health, said: 'Extending people's cognitive function is an important public health challenge. 'Antioxidants may help protect the brain from oxidative stress, which can cause cell damage.' But she added that more studies are needed to test whether the antioxidants really 'can help protect the brain ...

A white flag with a memorial written on it is one of the thousands of white flags representing Americans who have died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) placed over 20 acres of the National Mall in Washington, September 26, 2021. Joshua Roberts | Reuters The United States on Wednesday surpassed 1 million Covid-19 deaths, according to data compiled by NBC News — a once unthinkable scale of loss even for the country with the world's highest recorded toll from the virus. The number — equivalent to the population of San Jose, California, the 10th largest city in the U.S. — was reached at stunning speed: 27 months after the country confirmed its first case of the virus.  "Each of those people touched hundreds of other people," said Diana Ordonez, whose husban...

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South Dakota is now probing a case of child hepatitis, becoming the twelfth state to report the disease — after a child in Wisconsin died from the condition. Health chiefs in the state said the patient was less than 10 years old and lived in Brown County, on the North Dakota border. It takes the U.S. total to at least 32 confirmed or suspected cases of unexplained hepatitis, including five liver transplants and one death. Four children are thought to have died from the disease globally, after Indonesia said it was investigating three fatalities. More than 220 cases have been spotted to date — most in the UK — and there have been 18 liver transplants, but experts warn this could be just the 'tip of the iceberg'.  Scientists are puzzled by the spate of cases because none of the affected chi...

As COVID-19 case rates tick up across the Bay Area and California, San Francisco and Santa Cruz counties reported the highest rates of coronavirus infections in California so far this week. The Bay Area saw a 167% increase in coronavirus infections in April, the same month that California dropped most of its COVID mitigation measures, like mask requirements on public transit. U.S. Secretary of State tests positive for COVID-19 after press dinner: Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the State Department said. Blinken, who is vaccinated and boosted, was in attendance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington on Saturday, where several other guests were reportedly infected. He is experiencing mild symptoms. President Biden ...

New York COVID-19 hospitalizations topped 2,000 for the first time since late February on Tuesday, rising nearly three-fold in just a month as highly contagious subvariants of omicron trigger pleas for renewed caution from officials locally and nationally. The upward trend continued Wednesday. As of Gov. Kathy Hochul's latest update, 2,119 New Yorkers were hospitalized with COVID across the state's 10 regions, a 153% increase since April 3 alone though still well below the nearly 13,000 admitted during the variant's January surge peak. The rate of COVID hospitalizations per 100,000 New Yorkers has more than doubled in the same period, from 4.25 to 9.84, state data shows, with the Finger Lakes fueling the latest increases at a regional rate of 28.04 COVID hospit...