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STDs, The ”Most Distinctive” Killers in New York, Study Says

May 16, 2015 By Deborah Nielsen Leave a Comment

Chlamydia and gonorrhea lead to the most “distinctive” killer in New York, a new research said. According to the study, pelvic inflammatory disease is the premier unusual cause of death in the Big Apple, according to a research published in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease.

The infection of female reproductive organs, which is typically caused by sexually transmitted diseases, is responsible for killing more people in New York than in any other city in the country, according to the study carried out by employees at the New York Department of Health.The report, published Friday, reveals the most “distinctive” causes of death in the state and compares it to the national average. Common causes, such as cancer or heart disease, were excluded. Other unusual causes around the New York area include syphilis, septicemia and, also, intervention by law enforcement officers.

“I feel like there’s really almost 51 stories to tell with this. Many of these states have an idea of what’s going on and some are kind of mysterious, like New York,” study author Francis P. Boscoe told the Daily News. “.”

The death rate for PID in New York is more than double compared to the national average, at 6 deaths per 10 million, while 97 New York women lost their lives of PID between 2001 and 2010, said the researchers..

Around 1 million U.S. women contact PID every year, and teen girls are enduring the highest rate of infection, according to the study. There are no precise tests for it, and women probably do not even realize they have it, Some of the symptoms are fever, lower abdomen pain, a burning sensation during urination, pain during sex and unusual bleeding or vaginal discharge.

New Yorkers could be most affected considering their higher STD rates, explained Dr. David Samadi, chairman of urology at Lennox Hill Hospital. STDs are “overwhelmingly the leading” in the communicable diseases charts in New York, according to the Department of Health.

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not mention PID can be fatal, the agency is listing it as one of the 113 causes of death. In 2013, the last year the data is available, 129 people died of it in the U.S.

Samadi added he’s never known of a patient dying of PID. But the disease can cause a lot of frustration and stress, which can lead to fatal problems, he explained. The disease can be cured with antibiotics if detected in its early stages, but can have long and lasting effects. One in eight women who contact it have problems getting pregnant.

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Study Reveals, Greenland Is Losing Ice Sheets At A Quicker Rate Than Formerly Predicted

December 16, 2014 By Jason Leathers Leave a Comment

A team of researchers has recently carried out a study that gives the first ever extensive picture of melting of ice sheets in Greenland over the previous decade.

The study was carried out by the analysts at the University at Buffalo. As indicated by them, the present ice sheet displaying studies offer an easy strategy to precisely measure and foresee the role of the Greenland Ice Sheet to the ascent of ocean level. The study says Greenland is anticipated to lose its ice at a quicker rate within a brief period of time than formerly suggested.

The Greenland Ice Sheet, which covers a region around five times the size of Kansas and New York State joined, is the second-biggest ice body on the Earth.

Researchers say if the Greenland ice sheets begin melting and achieve a level when it is totally over, then the level of the seas could climb by as much as 20 feet. This would result in far reaching harms to the seaside societies spread on the cross over Florida to Bangladesh.

Study examiner Cornelis J. van der Veen said that this data is vital for the improvement and approval of numerical models that anticipate how the ice sheet may change and add to ocean level universally through the next few hundred years.

The analysts made two noteworthy discoveries amid the study. Firstly, the study gave new gauges of yearly loss of ice at high spatial decree. Furthermore, the current ice sheet models have botched to precisely capture the entire Greenland Ice Sheet district and its evolving pattern. The study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal on 15^th Dec.

NYC Police Reports: A Child Dies After Drinking Liquid Nicotine

December 15, 2014 By Rebecca McGhee 1 Comment

One year old baby died in Fort Plain, New York due to intake of liquid nicotine. The officials said that the refill bottle of nicotine was responsible for the child’s death.

Parents found the child unresponsive at home and immediately took him to the hospital. Sadly, doctors noticed that he was dead.

On the flip side, health authorities are quite worried after the incident. They stated that there are chances that other cases might emerge because of e-cigarettes.

E-cigarettes are battery operated devices which looks pretty similar to regular tobacco cigarette. It converts liquid nicotine into vapors inhaled by smokers. It is gaining popularity day by day among smokers. Unfortunately, the device does not come in child resistant packages. Hence, it is extremely dangerous for children.

Moreover, these e-cigarettes are now available in numerous colors and flavors which are pretty attractive for young children. These flavors and appealing colors can increase the death rates of children.

The American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) informs that one teaspoon of liquid nicotine can easily take the life of a small child. However, much smaller quantities can give birth to several lethal diseases.

Regardless of this tragic accident authorities are unwilling to implement any rule for child safe packaging of e-cigarette.

A police spokesman expressed grief on the death of the child. However, he refused to accept the connection between e-cigarette and the death.

Liquid Nicotine Killed An Innocent Toddler In New York

December 14, 2014 By Rebecca McGhee 64 Comments

A toddler in New York has died after drinking from a bottle which is thought to contain liquid nicotine. The bottle was used as a refill for e-cigarettes. This latest development changes a lot of our perception about how these liquid nicotine products are marketed and presented.
The incident took place at a home in Fort Plain, New York last Tuesday. An ambulance call was received from the neighborhood due to reports of an unresponsive child. The child was taken to the Hospital immediately but was pronounced dead short while after. The local police described the incident as a tragic accident.
Sgt Austin Ryan of the Fort Plain police confirmed that the child had indeed drunk from a glass bottle containing liquid nicotine that did not have a child-proof cap. But he did not affirm that the bottle in question here was used to refill e-cigarettes.
The death of a child has created a huge backlash in the state especially after the local assembly and senate have already passed a bill to ensure child resistant containers on liquid nicotine.
The thing that is most striking is that these flavored liquid nicotine bottles are marketed just like fruit juices and also are quite catchy on the eye especially for toddlers. Well the American Association of Poison Control centers expressed concern that there are “currently no standards set in place that require child-proof packaging”.
CDC has said that 16 million children across 10 states including District of Columbia have legal access to electronic cigarettes as well. While 40 states have banned e-cigarette sales to those deemed under-age since 2010.

Woman Died In New York Tests Negative For Ebola

November 19, 2014 By Jason Leathers Leave a Comment

According to the New York health officials, an Ebola test of a person who expired of an apparent heart attack Wednesday returned negative for the virus.

The expired, who was not recognized, had as of late gone to the United States from West Africa, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in an announcement. The individual had been in one of the countries hardest hit by the epidemic only 18 days prior, the announcement said.

The department said, “Before death, we haven’t observed any symptoms of Ebola. Then again, because of travel history in the 21-day incubation period and a profusion of vigilance, an Ebola test will be performed on the person’s body.”

Levi Fishman, department representative told Reuters on Wednesday that the test returned negative.

Moreover, Fishman refused to give any information about the individual, including gender, region and the time of death.

“The individual was a woman and that she was announced dead at a Brooklyn hair salon at around 2:30 p.m. EST Tuesday,” the New York Times reported.

Last Tuesday, Dr. Craig Spencer, who worked with Ebola patients in Guinea, was released from a New York City hospital after recuperating from Ebola after his 23^rd Oct. diagnosis.

Ebola can be transmitted just through the bodily fluids of a sick person with symptoms, medical specialists said.

On Friday, The World Health Organization stated that the Ebola outburst, which is the deadliest on record, has brought about 5,177 deaths out of 14,413 cases, generally in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Madagascar Fossil: A Hors D’oeuvre Of The Dinosaur Age

November 6, 2014 By Rebecca McGhee Leave a Comment

During the dinosaur age, most of the mammals were frail, usually weighing less than 450g. Recently, a bizarre fossil skull is discovered in Madagascar, which is relatively a giant weighing around 9kg.

David Krause of Stony Brook University in New York said, “It was a monster and looks like a big groundhog.”

The researchers believed that it’s the 2nd heaviest mammal known from the era, and the most massive of that time from the southern hemisphere.

Professor Krause said his best guess was it measured between 50cm and 60cm from nose to rump. It lived between 66 million and 72 million years ago.

In a study published in Nature journal, Professor Krause and colleagues have named it Vintana sertichi, perhaps an agile plant-eater with good eyesight in low light and a good sense of smell, handy to avoid predatory dinosaurs and other beasts that shared its environment.

“It would have been a fine hors d’oeuvre for a dinosaur,” Professor Krause said.

HP Unveils 3D Scanner/Printer with Multi Jet Fusion Technology

October 30, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

At last, HP reveals its new 3D printer after three years of continuous struggle. The American based company is really famous for its conventional ink printers.

Hp flaunted its brand innovative new multi Jet Fusion Technology in an event of New York. The company announced that this new product will take almost two years to touch the markets of printers.

The company has specially designed 3D printer for fast printing in low price. The firm claimed that it works nearly ten times faster as compared to the ordinary printer available in the markets. Furthermore, the device offers a scanner, depth sensor, projector, high-res camera and much more.

Hp has incorporated Jet Fusion Technology which makes use of a print bar that generates more than 350 drops per second at 21 microns. It signifies that the printer would print approximately 1,000 gears in just a short time period of three hours. The company has specially designed an ink which will increase the speed of this Multi Jet Fusion Printer. In short, the new Multi Jet printer will take care of three of the main areas of a printer; speed, cost and time.

The device works in a really appealing manner. First, it coats the material then a print bar put on fusion agent. Later on, this Fusion agent scans the material and opens it for the energy source so that it can join together.

Moreover, a detailing agent is also utilized to enhance the edges of the particular object.

NYC City: Hatchet Attck on Cops was Terrorist Act

October 25, 2014 By Brian Galloway 1 Comment

NEW YORK — New York City police Commissioner William Bratton says the ax assault on four new kid on the block officers was a terrorist demonstration by a homegrown radical.

Bratton said Friday the suspect, Zale Thompson, was a Muslim change over who fumed online against America, yet had no reasonable binds to universal terrorism. He accepts Thompson was self-radicalized.

Thompson was murdered by police. One officer is hospitalized with a head wound.

Bratton says agents are attempting to figure out if the assault was arranged.

Police are inspecting Thompson’s machine for intimations. Bratton says examiners found that Thompson perused for composed fear bunches, and in addition executions and the shooting in Canada recently.

Powers likewise are attempting to figure out whether Thompson had any history of dysfunctional behavior. At the same time Bratton says he is open to calling it a “terrorist assault”

Taylor Swift’s New Track “Welcome To New York”

October 20, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

Taylor Swift’s new track, “New York, New York”; Billy Joel crooned “New York State of Mind”; Jay Z dropped “Empire State of Mind” is written by Kander and Ebb. Now, Taylor Swift is adding her take to the canon of songs about New York, the city that never sleeps.

This Monday morning, Swift previewed “Welcome to New York,” the first song off her album 1989, which is, yes, about moving to New York.

Taylor Swift explains in her video message, “The inspiration that I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration I’ve ever experienced in my life. New York is an electric city.”

Though, Swift previewed her new track as a “wide-eyed,” optimistic take on New York, but this doesn’t exactly mean she’s stepping any new ground here. FYI: Taylor Swift’s New York is a Tribeca penthouse. As per Good Morning America, the song that results, which she did with OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder, is a thumping anthem. It will become available at 12 a.m. on iTunes on Tuesday.

Record-Breaking Crowd Expected At UN Climate Change Summit March

September 20, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

As per the Labor Unions and other environmental societies, we are anticipating a big churn out for a NYC Protest happening this Sunday in order to drag the concentration to the climate change heading 2-daysprior to the United Nations Summit on the matter.

According to the organizers of the NYC clime change March (protest), same action will come to pass this Sunday in several other cities, counting Rio de Janeiro and Lagos, Nigeria.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has requested several states heads to a September 23 climate change summit going to held New York. President Barack Obama is likely to attend the summit too.

Donovan Richards, City Councilman stated that at the rally to announce the protest expecting lots of people coming from around the country “will move down on New York City streets to let our leaders know that we can no longer turn a blind eye to this crisis.”

He further stated that he is hoping to never see a different Super-storm Sandy, which shocked his region situated in the Rockaways section of Queens.

Richards also says that, “Unluckily, the truth is that if we don’t set up to tackle with the global warming, I am predicting another Sandy in my generation”.

On the other hand, the scientists are actually hesitant to held responsible just one storm on the issue of global warming; particularly the rise of sea levels added to or deteriorates the impact of Super-Storm Sandy.

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