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The CDC has issued a warning regarding a difficult-to-treat drug-resistant fungus that has spread throughout a pair of U.S. hospitals and nursing homes. In findings released last Thursday, researchers said the fungus, Candida auris, has gotten even more dangerous, identifying instances where it was immune to all existing medications. There’s also evidence that suggests it spread from person-to-person, which would […]
Snoop Dogg is grateful for the outpouring of love from his fans over the last two months. The legendary MC hopped on Instagram on Sunday, now months after telling his fans to keep his mother in their prayers, to share an update on her undisclosed condition as she undergoes treatment in the hospital with her […]
A 90-year-old Belgian has died after suffering simultaneous infections from two COVID-19 variants. Bloomberg reports the unvaccinated woman tested positive after admission to the OLV hospital in Aalst in March after she fell multiple times. Her oxygen levels were initially good, but her condition rapidly deteriorated and she died five days later. An autopsy has now revealed that […]
A woman in Australia was taken to the hospital last week after waking up to the horrifying sight of a mouse chewing on her eyeball, The Sun reports. This is just another incident for a country that has been overrun by mice for more than half a year, an occurrence that the state government has described as “absolutely […]
Biz Markie has not died, NBC News reports, citing a statement from the rapper’s manager. “The news of Biz Markie’s passing is not true,” Biz Markie’s rep, Jenni Izumi, wrote. Izumi continued, “Biz is still under medical care, surrounded by professionals who are working hard to provide the best health care possible. Biz’s wife and family are touched […]
Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus shared on Wednesday that he has spent the last three months undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer. “I have cancer. It sucks and I’m scared, and at the same time I’m blessed with incredible doctors and family and friends to get me through this,” Hoppus wrote. “I still have months of […]
After being given 0% chance of survival, the newly declared world’s most premature baby has celebrated his first birthday, according to Guinness World Records. Born weighing less than a pound—and a tenth of the size of the average newborn—Richard Scott William Hutchinson entered the world five months prematurely in 2020, and he was tiny enough to fit […]
Nature, as the kids say, is healing. Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) says one of its intensive care units has not a single COVID-19 patient for the first time in over 14 months. The network took to Twitter on Wednesday to make the announcement, along with a video of staff at Toronto General Hospital’s Medical-Surgical Intensive Care […]
A judge has approved a $15 settlement over the sexual assault of a woman who was in an incapacitated state and later gave birth. Judge Theodore Campagnolo approved the settlement against a doctor in a lawsuit from the woman’s parents after deeming it reasonable last week, according to the Associated Press. The settlement was made on behalf […]
A Cape Cod lobster diver, who says a humpback whale swallowed him, is opening up about his experience. Michael Packard, 56, was on the coast of Provincetown, MA early Friday morning when he was picking up lobsters 35 feet underwater, at which point he claims the whale swallowed him. “All of a sudden, I felt this […]
