Cowdenbeath’s Dean Brett handed four-match ban for social media comments

The outcome of the hearing has been confirmed by Cowdenbeath, who suspended Brett earlier this week over the betting allegations. A club statement read: “Following a hearing at Hampden Park, the tribunal found that between 23 May 2016 and 5 November 2016 Dean made comments upon a social networking site, namely Twitter, that were of a discriminatory, and offensive nature, based upon sexual orientation as well as comments that were otherwise of an offensive nature.”

Take A Massage At Home

People these days leave very busy lives and they are very stressed and drained out at the end of the day. One of the things that you can think of when you get home is to get a nice back massage.

Vector survey in capital

Main Road in Ranchi resembles a garbage dump on Wednesday, the second day of the strike by RMC’s safai workers. Around 400 civic workers have ceased work, demanding better pay and safety gear against health hazards.

Bendigo faced power cuts to ensure NSW made it through big heatwave

It was a case of Bendigo and Ballarat losing electricity or maintaining supplies to the most populous state, NSW. Photo: Glenn Campbell As NSW suffered through its record-breaking heatwave this month, with power supplies stretched to breaking point, the head of Australia’s main electricity grid faced a choice: keep the airconditioning running in Sydney, or keep the lights on in Victoria.

Important public forum

… appointed, and the Senate confirmed on a party line vote, Atlanta’s Rep. Tom Price as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Price, like his friend Speaker Paul Ryan, wants to do away with traditional Medicare and change the age of …

25 Most Commonly Used Recreational Drugs in America

Other drugs like cocaine and LSD, are used sporadically among adults in the U.S.Using data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive, the experts at HealthGrove, a health data site by Graphiq, ranked the 25 most commonly used recreational drugs. The substances are ordered by the increasing percentage of people age 12 and over who used the drug recreationally in 2015.

Easier Zika Virus Detection Being Developed

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL, recently received a USS$199,280 grant from the Florida Department of Health to develop new testing for the Zika virus. Current Zika virus testing has difficulty determining if antibodies in the bloodstream are fighting the Zika virus or other mosquito-borne viruses like West Nile.

Defund Planned Parenthood

This weekend, America spoke out and asked the 115th Congress to reroute taxpayer dollars from Planned Parenthood, including Planned Parenthood of the North Country, to comprehensive health care centers. More than 225 #DefundPP events took place in 43 states and the nation’s capital, drawing tens of thousands of people rallying to protest tax dollar support of Planned Parenthood.

Harrison County schools dealing with flu outbreak

The Harrison County Board of Education sent a letter to parents earlier this week warning of an outbreak of flu in schools that has affected up to 15 percent of students in the county. “This is the first year that I can recall that we’ve seen this many children out at one given time with the flu,” Harrison-Clarksburg Health Department Nurse Director Margaret Howe-White said Wednesday.

Hamburg chiropractor to celebrate 30

… his 30th anniversary, Dr. Karas has no plans for retirement or even semi-retirement. According to him, “health is wealth” and he looks forward to the future and expanding the practice to include an associate, an individual massage area …

People & Events

… Fairmont Area Multiple Myeloma Support Group will meet 10 a.m. to noon Saturday in the main classroom at Mayo Clinic Health System-Fairmont. Park on hospital side of building, enter at main entrance. Meeting room is on the ground floor. Watch for …

The Further Adventures of Paul Ryan, Serious Policy Wonk

Paul Ryan has a very, very serious proposal to eventually have a proposal to take away health insurance from millions of people to pay for upper-class tax cuts. He is defending it with all the seriousity his proposal deserves: The rhetoric: In her inaugural weekly address, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi claimed that repealing Obamacare-a law that, in her words, has experienced ” immense progress “-will result in widespread death and suffering.

Is alchohol really good for a diabetic?

… alchohol is good for one’s well-being. My problem is that I am diabetic but do like a tripple or two. Am I doing my health any harm? By the way, keep up the good work! Well here is the good news for all you drinkers out there; you’re protecting …

Baby on way for ‘Little People’ stars Jeremy, Audrey Roloff

The pair tells Us Weekly that Audrey Roloff discovered she was pregnant after returning home from a gender reveal party for Jeremy’s twin brother, Zach Roloff, and his wife, Tori, who are expecting a baby boy in May. She says she “was so surprised” after seeing a positive result on a pregnancy test. The 25-year-old says it could be the start of a large family.

Ancient Chinese fortune-telling offers modern day benefits

Co-translator and co-annotator Joanna C. Lee explained that the editions are adapted for the modern reader, so the entries start on Jan 1, rather than the actual first day of the Year of the Rooster , and extend beyond Dec 31 to Feb 16, 2018, the day the Year of the Dog begins. Which is lucky, because, as Lee points out, the new volume includes the “hilarious” prognostication for this year’s US presidential inauguration day.

Beale Street Music Festival features eclectic lineup

Kings of Leon, Snoop Dogg, Soundgarden and Sturgill Simpson are among the musical acts scheduled to perform at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis in May. Festival officials announced Wednesday that Widespread Panic, Death Cab for Cutie, Wiz Khalifa, Booker T. Jones, Bush, Ludacris and Jill Scott also are in the lineup for the 41st installment of the annual three-day festival. Several performers will be making their first appearance, including Tori Kelly, Jimmy Eat World, Silversun Pickups, The Revivalists and Midnight Oil.

Judge Rules That Texas Can’t Defund Planned Parenthood

In December of 2016, Texas’s inspector general announced that the state’s Medicaid funds would no longer go toward Planned Parenthood, citing a series of secretly-recorded videos that alleged the health care provider was illegally selling fetal tissue for profit. Though the videos were revealed to have been heavily edited and the House Oversight Committee’s 2015 investigation into Planned Parenthood found no evidence of wrongdoing, anti-choice activists and legislators alike have pointed to them as a reason why the organization should be defunded.

Alimera Sciences and Knight Therapeutics Announce Filing of New Drug…

Alimera Sciences, Inc. , a leader in research, development and commercialization of prescription ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, and Knight Therapeutics Inc. , a leading Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that Knight’s New Drug Submission for ILUVIEN has been accepted for review by Health Canada. ILUVIEN 0.19 mg is Alimera’s sustained release intravitreal implant approved in the U.S. to treat diabetic macular edema in patients who have been previously treated with a course of corticosteroids and did not have a clinically significant rise in intraocular pressure.