Fertility Drugs, Devices and Success Rate
Estimated amount spent globally on fertility drugs and devices this year: $4,054,984,000 Percentage of first-time fertility treatments that fail: 75
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Voltaire Quote – Life Is Thickly Sown With Thorns
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” – Voltaire
Read moreThe costly epidemic of disability
For many Americans, collecting disability has become a career, said Michael Barone. Over the past 50 years, the number of people receiving benefits from the Social Security disability program created to help Americans who are too sick to work—has rocketed from 455,000 to 8.6 million. An incredible 5.6 percent of adults are now getting disability checks, with a cost to […]
Read moreAntibiotic-resistant Bacteria
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have found that antibiotic resistance has risen to dangerous levels. If drastic action is not taken soon it will become a bigger killer than cancer by the year 2050. The report shows that at least 2 million people in the US are infected each year with germs that are resistant […]
Read moreBill Nye Quote – The More You Find Out About The World
“The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.” – Bill Nye
Read moreJack Johnson Quote – Love Is The Answer
“Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. Like why are we here, where do we go and how come it’s so hard?” – Jack Johnson
Read moreAMERICA’S LETHAL COCKTAIL PARTY
By the mid-1920s, the American government was at its wit’s end. The era’s strict Prohibition laws had proved futile. Americans were still drinking; they were just doing so on the sly, frequenting speakeasies and buying alcohol from crime syndicates. Gangs would steal large quantities of industrial alcohol—used for everything from fueling machines to sterilizing instruments— then redistill the hooch to […]
Read moreDrunk Monkey Attacks Patrons With Knife
He’s got a knife! Drunk monkey goes on the rampage in Brazil. Drunk monkey brandishing huge knife terrorizes bar in booze-fueled rampage after drinking rum. A video shows the little Capuchin attacking the roof of the bar with the foot-long kitchen knife after chasing after drinkers. Customers at a bar were given a scare when the drunk monkey snatched […]
Read moreToo Many Pain Pills
Over the past decade, more Americans died from overdoses of prescription painkillers than from heroin and cocaine use combined, according to government health officials. Most of the deaths were due to misuse of the medications— not to treat pain but to achieve a narcotic high. Recreational abuse has fueled a 300% surge in sales since 1999 of drugs like oxycodone, […]
Read moreRobertson Davies Quote – Satisfactory Future
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.” – Robertson Davies
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