DEET is a common ingredient in insect repellents, and sprays with DEET are probably the way to go if you know you’re at risk of bites, Piliang said. Despite the controversy over the health effects of DEET, a 2014 review by the Environmental Protection Agency re-concluded that normal use of DEET products does not pose a risk to one’s health, including children, pregnant women and breastfeeding…
According to Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious diseases expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, NB.1.8.1’s symptoms are pretty much the same as those seen with other SARS-CoV-2 variants.
Two of COVID’s hallmark symptoms are a…
When you’re young (and a little naive), it’s common to feel invincible when it comes to your body. Staying up late, maybe partying too much, working out with incorrect form — you might not feel some of these at the moment, but boy, do they catch up to you.
This is also true for non-airplane windows, said Dr. Jennifer Holman, a dermatologist with U.S. Dermatology Partners Tyler in Texas. “Most typical windows in a house or a car are going to filter out … like 97%, 98% of the UVB radiation, which is typically the…
Before getting in your car, take note of how you’re feeling.
Are you tired? Are you distracted because of an argument with your partner? This way, you can decide if you have the faculties to safely operate your car. And this is true for anyone — not just those with ADHD…
"We Simply Do Not Care Anymore": Women Over 40 Are Sharing Things They're Fed Up With At This Point
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31 Things Older Women Do Not Care About
If you have not ridden the rollercoaster known as perimenopause, congrats. Ditto if you’re one of the lucky ones who can say it was “not that bad.” But for many women, the years leading up to…
These 14 Facebook Moms Take Toxicity, Ignorance, And Inappropriateness To The Next Level
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14 Wildly Inappropriate Facebook Mom Posts
Whenever I think nothing can surprise me anymore, I look at r/ShitMomGroupsSay and am immediately humbled. Here are the 14 wildest posts I saw on there this month:
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This mom who isn’t…
People Are Outraged Over A Legally Dead Black Woman In Georgia Still Forced To Carry Her Pregnancy
May 28, 2025
The murky legality around this centers on Georgia’s LIFE Act, a law banning most abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy once “fetal cardiac activity can be detected” — aka Georgia’s heartbeat law. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bill into…
"It Happened In Under A Couple Of Minutes": 17 Incredibly Rare And Bizarre Ways People Met Their End
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Similarly, “Patricia Stallings was wrongfully convicted of murder after the death of her son in 1989. Because testing seemed to indicate an elevated level of ethylene glycol in Ryan’s blood, authorities suspected antifreeze poisoning, and they…
