You probably know Cialis as that boner drug with the annoying commercial of a sex-deprived couple sitting in separate bathtubs gazing toward the horizon. The announcer says something about the dangers of erections lasting more than four hours and viewers get grossed out thinking about baby boomers with raging hard-ons. But this week,…
There’s a veritable menu of weird-sounding vagina-focused procedures offered by local chop shop plastic surgery chain Strax Rejuvenation.G-spot amplification is a “lunch time procedure” that results in “enhanced sexual arousal” for 87 percent of “normally sexually functioning women.” Hymenoplasty can “repair the hymen as if nothing ever occurred.” And augmentation…
We’ve been predicting it for months, and new data from the Department of Health now confirm it. Whooping cough cases are the highest they’ve been in Florida for the past decade, and probably a lot longer than that. As of Tuesday, there have an astonishing 515 cases around the state, according to DOH…
Gone are the days of chalkboards, abacuses, and dunce caps. Nowadays elementary-school students (of a certain social stratus) tote iPads and laptops and get shamed for their stupidity on social media.And while the prospect of Little Billy jumping on Plantation Middle School’s wireless network to polish his social studies project…
Broward health officials have now recorded 34 cases of whooping cough this year, according to the latest data. For the whole of last year, there was only one case documented in the county. See also-Broward Whooping Cough Cases Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone-Whooping Cough Cases Surge in Broward, Florida The surge of the highly…
Picture this: A flight with passengers from Uganda just touched down at Miami International Airport. As the visitors inch toward the terminal, one pauses in the aisle and wipes a speck of blood from his earlobe. Suddenly sweat runs down his cheeks; his eyes are inky red. He lets out…
Good news, all you women who don’t want to die! Several lovely things are happening to help you stay alive this month: If you have insurance, as of today (or soon, depending on your plan), you’ll no longer face copays for numerous reproductive health screenings, contraceptives, breastfeeding supplies, annual checkups,…
See also “Florida Government Keeps Tuberculosis Deaths of ‘Poor Black Men’ Secet as Disease Spreads” and “Are Medical Marijuana Claims Made in Reggae Songs True?”The Palm Beach Post’s Stacey Singer on Sunday delivered a stellar investigation into the state’s worst tuberculous outbreak in two decades and how the health department…
See also “Broward Whooping Cough Cases Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone”According to the most recent data from the Florida Department of Health, 260 cases of whooping cough have been reported throughout the state as of the end of June.That’s 120 more cases of the highly contagious respiratory ailment than there were at…
See also: Rick Scott’s stranger-than-fiction smackdown of Obamacare and his defense of that decison.In 2009, at least 2.45 million people in Florida were enrolled in Medicaid, according to data from government agencies. Another estimate pegs the number at more than 3 million. That’s over a tenth of all people in…
A lot has been said about the Supreme Court challenge to “Obamacare,” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. One thing, though, that’s gotten lost in the shuffle is that the case is called Health and Human Services v. Florida — it was filed by Florida’s then-attorney general Bill McCollum,…
The ruling is in — old people smell different, and a study released today reveals that people can identify the smell even when there isn’t an actual old person around.A study from Philadelphia researchers called “The Smell of Age: Perception and Discrimination of Body Odors of Different Ages” dealt with…
Here’s a grim statistic: More than 5 million people around the world die from smoking-related illnesses each year. That’s roughly a quarter of Florida’s population. Dead. Each year. The financial burden that comes along with these deaths and all those who survive their various bouts of cancer and emphysema and similarly brutal ailments is more…
Gov. Rick Scott’s Solantic Walk-In Urgent Care is no longer Rick Scott’s… or Solantic Walk-In Urgent Care.Scott founded the chain of health care clinics in 2001, and sold it in 2011 amid cries of conflicting interests. The company announced yesterday that it will be changing its name to CareSpot Express Healthcare…
Last week, a committee of experts recommended that the Food and Drug Administration approve the first drug for protecting against HIV transmission.On the surface, it sounds like great news. But as The Pulp reported in January, some doctors have serious concerns that the pill is not as effective as it should be…
Man’s struggle to find the G spot has been the subject of many a punch line, but a new study shows that it’s quite small and not exactly easy to get to. This week, Adam Ostrzenski, a St. Petersburg doctor, published a paper that confirms the “anatomic existence of the G-spot”…
The Broward County Health Department on Friday afternoon announced that it has confirmed four cases of pertussis, three among school-aged children and one case in an adult. More commonly known as whooping cough, pertussis is a “highly contagious respiratory disease” that can cause “permanent disability in infants and even death.”While all of that…
Time to start dusting off those protest signs — Planned Parenthood opened new digs in Wellington on Monday, and they want to bring your kids — gasp! — sexual education.Palm Beach County will have a total of three Planned Parenthood facilities after one in Lake Worth closes this summer, according…
Florida lawmakers tackled lots of pressing issues this past legislative sessions. They debated whether the barking tree frog should be the Sunshine State’s official amphibian. They clashed over making it a crime to pick up pecans that have fallen from privately owned trees. The even considered making trees painted purple a symbol for no trespassing. There…
The FAU student featured in a viral YouTube video showing her threatening to kill a professor has struggled with mental illness for more than a decade, according to her family.Jonatha Carr had a breakdown in a biology class at Florida Atlantic University on March 20, and cell-phone videos of the…
A 2-week-old baby in New York has died after being circumcised by a Jewish mohel. The infant reportedly contracted herpes when the mohel put his mouth on the baby’s penis to suck away blood, part of a religious ritual called the metzitzah b’peh, which is sometimes a component of a…
Researchers at the Jupiter campus of the Scripps Research Institute might have some new tricks for treating pain that aren’t accompanied by the nasty side effects associated with drugs like OxyContin.The National Institute on Drug Abuse awarded a team of Scripps researchers more than $3 million to carry out studies on four…
