Doctor Punished, Suggested Oral Sex For Gagging Problem
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This doctor sounds hilarious. I wonder what he recommends for hemorrhoids? No Amaechi. From the SFist:
A Sacramento surgeon has been reprimanded by the state medical board after reportedly suggesting his patient try giving her husband twice-weekly blowjobs to help fix her sensitive gag reflex.
The anonymous patient was at the office of Dr. J. Peter Zegarra, board certified colon and rectal surgery specialist, when she explain that she was concerned about an upper-gastrointestinal endoscopy procedure Dr. Zegarra had recommended. The procedure requires an endoscope to be slid down the patient’s throat to their intestines. When the woman explained that she was hesitant because she “gags at the dentist,” Dr. Zegarra tried to lighten the mood by suggesting — in front of her husband — that “she should be practicing twice a week on her husband by giving him (oral sex) to address her gagging reflex.”
The state medical board says that even though his unorthodox prescription was meant as a joke, that’s no defense and has issued an official public reprimand.
-Dewan Gibson
Woman Uses Hypnosis To Grow Breasts Three Cup Sizes
Posted by Dewan Gibson | Filed under Health, Women
In case you’re wondering most states don’t require hypnotherapists to be licensed, so you can get a titty growth through hypnosis business up and running today. From The Sun:
Single mum-of-three Ashley Weller, 26, was unhappy with her breasts so she went under to help “think” them bigger.
And she says she has gone from a size 36C to a 36E.
Hypnotherapist Felix Economakis said the mind can create blocks that stop women’s breasts growing.
He explained: “There are many reasons for these blocks. For instance, during puberty women associate big breasts with unwanted male attention when they were not emotionally ready.”
Ashley, of Crawley, West Sussex said: “I’ve always wanted bigger boobs. I was thinking of having a boob job operation but it looks like I won’t be needing one now.” She also lost 14st after having a gastric sleeve three years ago.
-Dewan Gibson
Doctors Attempted To Cure HIV With A Placenta Today
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I know the placenta was good for more than just looking like an alien’s boo-boo wrapped in a clear plastic bag. From FOX Health:
University of Minnesota physicians are set to perform Tuesday a groundbreaking transplant to cure a patient of HIV/AIDS and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
The clinical team composed of transplant physicians Dr. Michael Verneris, Dr. John Wagner, and HIV/AIDS infectious disease specialist Dr. Timothy Schacker will perform the world’s first cord blood transplant, which involves the use of blood extracted from the placenta after a baby is born.
This specific blood contains a variant of a cell surface protein, known as CCR5Δ32, which prevents most strains of the HIV virus from entering a patient’s T cells, ultimately protecting the patient’s immune system.
“Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is one of the cancers that occurs more frequently in HIV infected people,” said Schacker. “If successful, the procedure will prove that HIV infection can be cured and point to new areas of research that may one day lead to a cure for all patients with HIV/AIDS.”
The medical team expects to garner a sense of the clinical outcome over the next 100 days, in which the patient will be in a “high risk period” as treatment can damage organs, bone marrow, immune system – but potentially, the leukemia, Verneris said.
-Dewan Gibson
A Pretty Good Reason To Get The HPV Vaccine
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If you’re a hetereosexual man in your 30s and dating you shouldn’t be surprised if you partner has kids, cellulite, and HPV. But that won’t be the case for today’s 20-somethings. Well, at least in regards to HPV, which in some cases can make cauliflower grow on your loins. From FOX Health:
Incidences of genital warts declined by more than 90 percent in adolescent and teenage girls in the first four to five years after the introduction of a free human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Australia, MedPage Today reported.
According to a new study in BMJ, genital warts occurred more than 70 percent less often among women ages 21 to 30, compared to the three to four years before the vaccine became available. This was accompanied by a 50 to 80 percent decrease in incidences of genital warts among heterosexual boys and young men.
No decline was seen in heterosexual women or men older than 30, according to lead author Dr. Basil Donovan, of the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
There’s also an HPV vaccine available for young men up to age 21. Consider it. Your johnson will thank you.
-Dewan Gibson
All That Running You’re Doing Is For Nothing
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See, sneaker companies want people to run like crazy so they can continue to financially benefit from slave-esque labor in Southeast Asia. You can get just as good as a workout by walking around aimlessly with a George Jefferson/Trinidad James strut. From the UK Guardian:
Brisk walking reduces the risk of heart disease more effectively than running when the energy expenditure of both activities is balanced out, a study has found.
Researchers compared data from two studies of 33,060 runners and 15,045 walkers. For the same amount of energy used, walkers experienced greater health benefits than runners.
The effects on participants, who were aged 18 to 80, were observed over a period of six years.
Running reduced the risk of heart disease by 4.5% while walking reduced it by 9.3%.
Calorie for calorie, walking also had a stronger impact on heart disease risk factors. The risk of first-time high blood pressure was reduced by 4.2% by running and 7.2% by walking.
First-time high cholesterol risk was lowered by 4.3% by running and 7% by walking.
The risk of first-time diabetes was reduced by about 12% by both walking and running.
-Dewan Gibson
Arguing In Front Of A Sleeping Baby Can Ruin His Nerves
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This is scary. And I bet the harm caused to the baby is even worse if you argue and yell while clapping your hands to each syllable, “OH-NO-YOU-DID-NT!” Be nice to each other and speak in hushed tones like Nas. From FOX Health:
Babies’ minds are extremely malleable. The environments and events they experience shape their brains for good or for ill. Stress due to maltreatment or being raised in an institution can take a toll on a baby’s development. But this study, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science, shows that even moderate stresses can affect brain function…
Graham and her colleagues scanned the brains of 20 sleeping infants, ages 6 months to 12 months, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (a technique that measures blood flow as a proxy for brain activity). Inside the scanner, the babies heard nonsense sentences spoken by a male adult in very angry, mildly angry, happy or neutral tones.
The sleeping infants’ brains showed distinct patterns of activity corresponding to each different emotional tone, the study revealed. Compared with babies raised in healthy homes, infants in high-conflict homes (as reported by their mothers) had a greater response to the very angry voice in brain regions involved in stress and emotion regulation — the rostral anterior cingulated cortex, the caudate, the thalamus and the hypothalamus. Previous studies in animals indicated that these regions show effects of early life stress on development, and this study suggests human babies may experience a similar phenomenon.
The findings suggest babies are aware of parental conflicts and that these conflicts may affect how the infants’ brains handle stress and emotion, Graham said.
-Dewan Gibson
Bill Gates Offers $100,000 For ‘Next Generation Condom’
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is backing a $100,000 challenge to develop the next generation condom. You have until May 7th to submit a proposal. Don’t even think about stealing my idea to create a nearly invisible retractable condom worn all day that expands to only cover the tip as the penis becomes erect. No Amaechi. It’ll look like a stringless doo-rag for your joint but slightly more stylish. From Grand Challenges:
Condoms have been in use for about 400 years yet they have undergone very little technological improvement in the past 50 years. The primary improvement has been the use of latex as the primary material and quality control measures which allow for quality testing of each individual condom. Material science and our understanding of neurobiology has undergone revolutionary transformation in the last decade yet that knowledge has not been applied to improve the product attributes of one of the most ubiquitous and potentially underutilized products on earth. New concept designs with new materials can be prototyped and tested quickly. Large-scale human clinical trials are not required. Manufacturing capacity, marketing, and distribution channels are already in place.
We are looking for a Next Generation Condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use. Additional concepts that might increase uptake include attributes that increase ease-of-use for male and female condoms, for example better packaging or designs that are easier to properly apply. In addition, attributes that address and overcome cultural barriers are also desired.
-Dewan Gibson
Get A Free STD With Your Brazilian Wax
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Everything retro is in style, which leaves me dumbfounded as to why more women don’t retro their cooch hair, especially since a bush reduces your risk of sexually transmitted diseases. Let that shit grow, braid it up if you have to. As for guys getting Brazilian waxes…cut that out, bruh. From NBC News:
A dermatologist in Nice, France, observed more and more patients coming to his office with molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) outbreaks in their nether regions (molluscum contagiosum, incidentally, sounds more like a “Harry Potter” spell than a virus). About 93 percent of these 30 patients, both male and female, shaved, waxed, or clipped their pubic hair. This made Dr. Francois Desruelles, MD, wonder about the relationship between grooming downstairs and the spread of MCV.
“Pubic hair removal is a body modification for the sake of fashion, especially in young women and adolescents, but also growing among men,” writes Desruelles in a letter published online in the British Medical Journal. “Anyway, pubic hair removal may be a risk factor for STMC [sexually transmitted MCV] or perhaps other STIs …”
MCV, a pox virus, spreads by skin-to-skin contact, from sharing items such as towels or clothes, or sexual contact. It causes pearly papules with dimples in the middle. While MCV looks unsightly, it is not painful and often goes away without treatment. Although a few bumps might be an inconvenience, some people develop hundreds of these papules, which can be embarrassing and disfiguring.
After looking at cases of sexually transmitted MCV, Desruelles believes that people are self-inoculating, meaning they are giving themselves pubic MCV from grooming. A person might shave a papule on her leg, for example, and the virus remains on the blade, which transfers it to her lady parts.
-Dewan Gibson
If You Get HIV This Weekend You’ll Probably Be Fine
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Great news, but don’t get too excited. The Herp still can’t be faded. From the UK Guardian:
Treating people with HIV rapidly after they have become infected with the virus that causes Aids may be enough to achieve a “functional cure” in a small proportion of patients diagnosed early, according to research.
Scientists in France who followed 14 patients who were treated swiftly with HIV drugs but then stopped treatment found that even when they had been off therapy for more than seven years they still showed no signs of the virus rebounding.
The research, published in the journal PLOS Pathogens, follows news this month about a baby girl in Mississippi being effectively cured of HIV after receiving early treatment.
Christine Rouzioux, a professor at Paris Descartes University and a member of the team that identified HIV 30 years ago, said the results showed that the number of infected cells circulating in the blood of these patients, who are known as “post-treatment controllers”, kept falling even without treatment for many years…
A functional cure is when the virus is reduced to such low levels that it is kept at bay even without continuing treatment. The virus is still detectable in the body.
-Dewan Gibson
Man Juice Is The Most Potent In The Winter & Early Spring
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Personal experience and a biology class I kind of completed in community college have taught me that the secret to conception is prayer and doggystyle. But according to a new study the seasons also influence man’s ability to produce healthy sperm that can get all up in there. From FOX Health:
Autumn is the time of year most associated with bumper crops of new babies, and according to an Israeli study there may be a scientific reason for it: human sperm are generally at their healthiest in winter and early spring.
Based on samples from more than 6,000 men treated for infertility, researchers writing in American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology found sperm in greater numbers, with faster swimming speeds and fewer abnormalities in semen made during the winter, with a steady decline in quality from spring onward.
“The winter and spring semen patterns are compatible with increased fecundability and may be a plausible explanation of the peak number of deliveries during the fall,” wrote lead researcher Eliahu Levitas from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva…
Previous studies, mostly in animals, have found similar results in line with those species’ breeding seasons, said Edmund Sabanegh, a urologist who was not involved with the new research.
-Dewan Gibson
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