California Announces Worst Whooping Cough Epidemic Since the 1940s 

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California Announces Worst Whooping Cough Epidemic Since the 1940s 

A total of 9,935 cases of whooping cough were reported this year in California, the State That Can’t Catch a Break. “We’d have to go way back to the 1940s to find more cases,” says Dr. Eric McDonald, a public health services medical director in San Diego County.

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Rickets returns to the UK as poor families find healthy diets unaffordable.

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Rickets returns to the UK as poor families find healthy diets unaffordable.:

Poverty

 is forcing people to have dangerously poor diets and is leading to the return of rickets and gout – diseases of the Victorian age that affect bones and joints – according the UK Faculty of Public Health.

A quick reminder that our society being economically f*cked isn’t limited to the US. Enjoy the global economic contagion.

“But it’s awfully depressing that, in the summer of 2014, when 99% of American women use birth…”

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But it’s awfully depressing that, in the summer of 2014, when 99% of American women use birth control, we can’t just come out and say that most women use birth control for sex. And that we like said sex – a lot.

I can promise you this, too: focusing on the non-orgasmic reasons women use contraception will not magically change conservatives’ minds about the issue.

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– “Women like sex. Stop making ‘health’ excuses for why we use birth control”