Video Game Addiction Officially Classified As A Mental Health Disorder By World Health Organization
Compulsively playing video games has now been classified as a mental health disorder by the The World Health Organization.
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Civilians Flee After Hundreds Killed in Relentless Saudi-led Coalition Airstrikes on Key Yemeni Port of Hodeidah (VIDEO)
Thousands of civilians are fleeing Hodeidah, Yemen, after hundreds were killed in the Saudi-led coalition’s bombing campaign to take the strategic Yemeni port away from Houthi rebels.
California AIDS Rates Soar After Jerry Brown Legalized Willful HIV Spread
AIDS rates in California have soared in the last year following Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision to legalize the intentional spread of the HIV virus.
Teaching Students How to Swear Can Help Them to Develop Socially, Scientist Says
Teaching students how to swear can help them to understand language better, a scientist has said.
Israeli Military Have Shot 500 Palestinians In The Head In One Month
Over the last month, the Israeli military has shot over 500 Palestinians in the head for peacefully protesting in the Gaza Strip.
SCIENCE NEWS IN BRIEF: A Black Hole Gorging on Stars and Spirit Simulation, Scientists Transfer Data Between Snails, etc.
Giant black hole has been eating a ‘star every two days’, scientists transfer memory between snails, child’s mummified hand mystery solved, and more.
Prehistoric Autism Helped Produce Much Of The World’s Earliest Great Art, Study Says
Much of the world’s earliest great art is likely to have been created by gifted early humans on the autism spectrum, new research by British scientists suggests in Open Archaeology journal this week.
WHO Report: 95% of World Population Reside in Regions Contaminated By Life-Threatening Air Pollution
Most of the world’s population reside in regions where air quality contains life-threatening pollutants, with 95% breathing in unhealthy air, a World Health Organization (WHO) study has determined. This health crisis has already claimed 7 million lives since the Syrian War began, many whose surroundings exceed toxic levels, causing asthma, stroke, emphysema, heart disease, hypertension, and serious breathing difficulties.
Pioneering autism doctor Hans Asperger sent disabled children to be killed by Nazis, new study claims
Hans Asperger, the Austrian pediatrician who gave his name to a kind of high-functioning autism, helped the Nazis in their murder of disabled children, according to a new report.
Interstitium: New organ discovered in human body after it was previously missed by scientists
‘Interstitium’ acts as a shock absorber for vital tissues and could improve understanding of cancer spread.
Top Bottled Water Brands Contaminated With Plastic Particles
The world’s leading brands of bottled water are contaminated with tiny plastic particles, report shows.
Red Cross: Cholera Outbreak Reaches “Hideous Milestone” of 1 Million Cases — Facilitated By U.S.-Backed Saudi Intervention in Yemen
As the 1,000th day of the U.S.-backed Saudi airstrike campaign in Yemen passed this week, humanitarian agencies recorded the one millionth case of cholera to infect the war-torn country, where 80 percent of the population lacks adequate access to food, clean water, and healthcare.
First Gene Therapy For Blindness Will Cost $850,000 U.S. Dollars
Luxturna, the first gene therapy treatment approved in the United States for a rare, inherited form of blindness, will have a wholesale acquisition cost of $850,000 U.S. dollars per patient, or $425,000 Read More…
Saudi Blockade of Yemen Is World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
Yemen today is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with nearly 70 percent of the population in need of aid, according to the United Nations. “In response to what is now Read More…
Pollution Kills 9 Million People Each Year — More Than War, Disaster, and Famine Combined
One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015—about 9 million—could be attributed to disease from environmental pollution, according to a major new study released Thursday in Read More…