Archive for the 'Medicine' Category

Yes, fecal transplants are real and yes, they do cure people.

We previously mentioned that a woman's life was saved by a fecal transplant!

She had too much of the deadly bacteria C. difficile in her system after antibiotics she was taking killed off all the good bacteria.

What happens is, there is good bacteria in your gut that keeps the bad stuff at bay.

So when your gut gets all out of whack, sometimes it only takes a simple fecal enema to clear it up!

The leading cause of death among the homeless used to be AIDS.

Now a new study has found it's actually drug overdoses, usually from painkillers and heroin.

The study looked at homeless adults who were treated through the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program over a 5-year period.

The death rate from O.D.ing has tripled in the past 15 years!

The lead author of the study said:

Josh Borelli is his basketball team's star player, but he also is special in another way.

He has a condition called Mucha-Habermann, an extremely rare skin disorder that causes lesions to develop all over the body.

He discovered he had the autoimmune disease one day in eighth grade when it appeared out of nowhere.

Here's what he said:

Barry Cadden, the owner and director of the New England Compounding Center that was found to be the source of the fungal meningitis outbreak, has appeared before Congress!

When questioned he plead the Fifth.

That meant that he was exercising his constitutional rights to not be forced to incriminate himself.

So the whole hearing in front of Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Florida, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations went like this:

A new clinical trial is about to get under way for "female Viagra!"

Say whaaaat??

Yup! It's called Tefina and it's a testosterone gel that women spray up their nose about an hour before doing some sex.

Not as sexy as discreetly popping a pill but hey whatever helps ladies get their rocks off!

The drug is expected to be able to boost female sexual arousal and satisfaction.

It's actually causing some controversy because

This is just awful.

It was just the other day that we mentioned that the fungal meningitis outbreak had spread to its 19th state and made 347 people sick.

It's still continued steadily getting worse, with the death toll rising to 28!

We previously mentioned that the fungal meningitis outbreak is far from over… and sadly, that's been true.

The outbreak has now spread to 19 states and has made 347 people sick!

Rhode Island became the 19th state to report that the outbreak has affected someone.

This is getting ridiculous!

We've said it before but still, we're so thankful that it's not contagious.

Massachusetts health officials are moving to revoke the license of the New England Compounding Center who's contaminated medications started this whole outbreak.

We think something fundamental needs to change in the compounding pharmacy industry so that something like this never happens again.

Check out the video (above) to hear how the FDA is responding to this crisis.