New Jersey: Bacteria lives on a half shell in the Delaware Bay (Bad Oysters)

Jun 09, 2008 - Bacteria lives on a half shell By BEN LEACH Staff Writer, 609-272-7261 Published: Sunday, June 08, 2008 From the Press of Atlantic City: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/185/story/177776.html COMMERCIAL TOWNSHIP - Researchers have discovered strains of bacteria carried by shellfish in the Delaware Bay that could pose a threat to human health. U.S. Department of Agriculture research-ers have found two potentially dangerous species of the bacteria shewanella and one species of photobacterium in oysters and seawater in the Delaware Bay. - 3 Comments

E. Coli Path Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection

Oct 04, 2009 - By MICHAEL MOSS                            Published: October 3, 2009 Stephanie Smith, a children’s dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that first day, and she finished her classes. Then her diarrhea turned bloody. - 3 Comments

How to Pleasure Your G-spot

Sep 29, 2009 - The G-spot: What is it?   The Gräfenberg spot or G-spot was discovered by Ernst Gräfenberg a German gynecologist who first described it as “an erotic zone located on the anterior wall of the vagina along the course of the urethra that would swell during sexual stimulation.”  The area the G-spot occupies is called the urethral sponge and it is tissue that surrounds the urethra (the tube we pee out of) that swells with fluid during sexual arousal.   It is associated with the prostate gland in men and is made up of a complex system of erectile tissue, secretion glands (the Skene’s gland), the internal pelvic nerve and muscles that engage with one another during the arousal cycle.  In most women it is sensitive to pressure and stimulation which can lead to high levels of sexual arousal and powerful orgasms.  The existence of a G-spot has been widely accepted and most popular sexology books treat it as fact.  In one study of female ejaculation, 84% of the approximately 1300 professional women who responded reported a sensitive area in the vagina, and this was correlated with those who also reported ejaculation. - 0 Comments

Tylenol recalls some children's medications

Sep 24, 2009 - Hopefully this won't apply to anyone, but I thought I'd post this since we have so many people who have kiddos. The makers of Tylenol have recalled more than 20 types of children's and infant's medications as a precaution against possible contamination. The liquid products were being voluntarily pulled from stores and warehouses because bacteria were detected in one of the inactive ingredients, the company said. - 4 Comments

MRSA 'superbug' found in ocean, public beaches

Sep 14, 2009 - SAN FRANCISCO — Public beaches may be one source of the surging prevalence of the superbug known as multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, researchers here said Saturday. A study by researchers at the University of Washington has for the first time identified methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) in marine water and beach sand from seven public beaches on the Puget Sound. The researchers identified Staph bacteria on nine of 10 public beaches that they tested. - 22 Comments

AP IMPACT: School drinking water contains toxins

Sep 25, 2009 - CUTLER, Calif. – Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins. An Associated Press investigation found that contaminants have surfaced at public and private schools in all 50 states — in small towns and inner cities alike. - 4 Comments

The Town Halls of August, They're here, they're conservative, get used to it.

Sep 07, 2009 - The Town Halls of August They're here, they're conservative, get used to it. by Mary Katharine Ham It had been a rough month by the time 67-year-old Bert Stead of Redding, Calif., stepped to the microphone at an August 18 town hall meeting with Republican representative Wally Herger. It was about to get rougher. - 1 Comment