NEW YORK, NY—On Wednesday, Ivana Trump, businesswoman, ex-wife of the president, and mother to his three most odious children, officially launched her campaign to fight adult obesity in the United States by way of a diet of pasta and cookies. The event was held at the headquarters of American excess itself, the Oak…
It’s almost June, and we all know what that means—beach weather! Naturally, the president is interested in achieving his ultimate summer body, and is reportedly embarking on an ambitious diet and exercise plan. Specifically, he is eating fish instead of steak, using half a bun instead of two buns, and golfing more.
Harold Bornstein, Donald Trump’s personal physician who in 2015 declared his patient to be full of “stamina,” is having a very bad week!
This summer, Rachael Wrobel hopes to grow a second skin. It will start from the skin cells contained in a biopsy, harvested by Stanford dermatologists. Carefully stewarded, those cells will divide and grow, laboratory-spun into fragile, new-skin sheets. The dermatologists will tinker with the skin’s fine machinery,…
A 55-year-old woman in Spain died after receiving bee sting therapy, or apitherapy, according to an article in the Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology. It’s the first reported death for the therapy, which has been promoted by Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop.
It’s here folks: the end of flu season!
For the past few years McDonald’s has made changes to the chain’s kids-friendly Happy Meal in order for it to be healthier.
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In our lives, many of us will go through periods when our natural coping mechanisms aren’t enough and so we turn to psychiatrists and doctors for the pharmaceutical tools (i.e. medications) we need to make it out alive. 2017 was definitely one of these times.
In its signature dictatorship[REDACTED] authoritarian preference of democratic governing style, the Trump administration has reportedly banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from using seven words in their budget documents. The words are: “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,”…
With many of the babies born with Zika virus-related developmental issues growing out of infancy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new study of that group, finding that toddlers born with Zika are unable to sit, hold their heads up, or speak.
New cases of HIV have reached an all-time low in New York City. The Health Department reports that 2,279 people were diagnosed with the virus in 2016, down 8.6 percent from the year prior. When the department first began tracking HIV cases in 2001, it counted 5,906 new infections.
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Santino Rice, a former Project Runway designer and judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race, has decided to go on a 111-day fast, which sounds like a bad idea.
Charlie Gard, the terminally ill baby whose parents have been fighting to keep him on life support, will be headed to the US for experimental treatment. A special committee has taken the first steps towards granting Charlie and his parents permanent residency in America, which could sidestep a UK court’s ruling to…
Teens today have never known a world where HIV was a certain death sentence. They missed the “plague years” of AIDS—the confusion, the pop-cultural discussions, the general feeling of hopelessness regarding the disease. This is sometimes referred to as “historical privilege.” It means that through no fault of their…
Gwyneth Paltrow’s inaugural Health Summit—an event centered around the sellable idea of “wellness”—took place on Saturday at a warehouse in Culver City, California. It appears to have been an affair to remember. Personally, I would never spend $500 or $1,000 or $1,500 on a Goop Health Summit. But after reading about…
I’m very sorry to report that, no matter how many times you ask, or how many times Silicon Valley/wealthy pseudoscience-loving health enthusiasts insist otherwise, juice is not a health food. It is sugar water.
Since Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop launched in 2008, the site has earned its reputation as the internet’s kooky rich aunt. From detoxes to cleanses; vitamins to clean food; vaginal eggs to vaginal steaming and recurring features by a self-described “Medical Medium” (a man who diagnoses disease via spirit guidance), Goop has…
Oh hell no, Elton, not you too. Last week the Rocket Man contracted a “rare and potentially deadly” bacterial infection while on tour in South America. But thankfully, he is on the mend and should make a full recovery.