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Lab Owner Who Exposed FTC Scandal Now Eyes the FBI

For more than a decade, LabMD owner Michael Daugherty told his story to anyone willing to listen: An allegedly rogue cybersecurity firm used FBI surveillance software in an attempt to extort him before colluding with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a malicious enforcement action that financially ruined his cancer research center. Throughout that time,…


Candlelight Vigil at Los Angeles Chinese Consulate Mourns Deaths Under Communist Regime

LOS ANGELES—About 200 adherents of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong held a candlelight vigil in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles on April 23 to mourn the deaths of practitioners subjected to brutal persecution in China. “Today, every year, we will always remember,” Dr. Youfu Li, president of the U.S. Southwest Falun Dafa…


Iron and Vegetable Oil Are a Deadly Combo

Even the healthiest ones contain this ingredient, which radically increases oxidative stress and triggers mitochondrial dysfunction. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Researchers found a connection between the intake of iron and seed oils high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) with diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) in people with Type 2 diabetes Both high dietary iron intake and an…


Colorado’s Once-Forgotten, Rundown Motels Are Getting Another Chance to Be Cool

By Amanda Hancock From The Gazette COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — In the first episode of the series “Schitt’s Creek,” a suddenly broke family has to leave their lavish mansion to begrudgingly live in a rundown motel. By the finale in April 2020, the made-over motel turned into something the fictional family — and viewers of…


‘Democrats Are Going to Lose’ in 2022 Without More Action: Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has raised the alarm about her party’s prospects in the 2022 midterms, saying that without more legislative victories Democrats will lose badly in November. Warren made the comments during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Asked whether Democrats in the 117th Congress should boast of their record on the…


Torsion: A Twisted Ovary Story

L.B. was a 45-year-old mother of two boys who was brought to the emergency department by her husband. She was having severe lower pelvic pain, and I was just starting my 24-hour shift. In fact, when I start at 7 a.m., we normally do a 15-minute “handoff” of who is in the hospital and needs…


Berlin Patron Says Shen Yun ‘Will Be Remembered for a Long Time’

BERLIN, Germany—Real estate manager Wolfgang Hoffmann and Lara Döring were impressed by Shen Yun Performing Arts at Theater am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin on April 20. “I liked it very much. I was very impressed with the colors, with the animation, with the choreography, with the movements, with the synchronization … I thought it was…


Husband and Wife Say Shen Yun ‘Good for the Soul’

McALLEN, Texas—Sara Salas, who works in accounts payable for the Diocese of Brownsville, and her husband Ted, an accountant for the federal government, attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the McAllen Arts Center on April 23. Sara said she enjoyed everything, “especially the flowers,” and Ted agreed. Ted said that he and Sara rarely go…


Our Marvelous Microbes

Each human is an ecosystem, and we play host to countless microscopic life forms. As strange as it may sound if you’re not a microbiologist, our bacteria are an integral part of who we are, participating in nearly every aspect of our health. My mother was a preeminent scientist who held the microbial world in…


Australia’s Labor Party Commits to Closing the Indigenous Health Gap in Latest Election Campaign

Federal Labor has said it will commit to closing the gap on Indigenous Australians’ health outcomes if elected to government on May 21. Launching the election policy the centre-left opposition party announced if elected they would train 500 additional Indigenous health workers, as well as invest in life-saving dialysis and rheumatic heart disease treatments for Aboriginal…