Stuart Scott Diagnosed with Cancer

ESPN anchor Stuart Scott was diagnosed with cancer after receiving an emergency appendectomy. He will return to the air Friday night.

Scott expressed his thanks to all for their thoughts and prayers.

Click HERE to listen to Scott's message regarding his health

Meet Dr. Jan Adams

You may have seen him before, you may not have. His name is Dr. Jan Adams and he the plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye's mom.

TMZ.com was able to recover a lot (and I do mean a lot) of dirt about Dr. Jan Adams. Let us examine the evidence...

Exhibit A:
The Medical Board of California filed legal papers last April asking to revoke or suspend Dr. Jan Adams' medical license because he was convicted of multiple DUIs, one in 2006, another in 2003. TMZ has also uncovered one from 1994.

Exhibit B:
Two malpractice judgments against Dr. Adams from 2001. One for $217,337 and the other for $250,000.

Exhibit C:
Dr. Adams is not Board Certified with the American Board of Plastic Surgery.

This is very frightening. Please ladies (and gents) if you are considering any form of surgery, please consult a board certified surgeon and research, research, research.

To read more about Dr. Adams, go here, here, here, and here.

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Botulism found in some popular pacifiers

My mother-in-law called me concerning the type of pacifier my daughter has. Before reading the story, I was thinking, "Lord, please don't let it be one of Gen's pacifiers." As a mother, this is really scary.

The bateria, Botulism, has been found in some pacifiers made in Mexico. Chupones or pacifiers have honey or corn syrup to make them more pliant and more like a mother’s breast.

According to the CDC, 15 percent of all infant botulism cases are caused by honey. Corn syrup can also contain the spores that transmit the potentially fatal disease.

Click here to read more.

Don't worry, my daughter does not have this type of pacifier. I purchase clear tip pacifiers.

Frozen pizzas recalled due to E. Coli

General Mills, the maker of Totinos and Geno's frozen pizza, is recalling 5 million pizzas that were sold nationwide. They are believing that the pepperoni used could have a possible E. Coli contamination.

The problem may have come from pepperoni on pizzas produced at a General Mills plant in Ohio, the suburban Minneapolis-based company said. It said the pepperoni itself came from a separate supplier, not produced at the plant itself, but it declined to release the name of the pepperoni distributor.

The voluntary recall covers pizzas containing pepperoni that have been produced since July, when the first of 21 E. coli illnesses under investigation by state and federal authorities emerged.

Nine of the 21 people reported eating Totino's or Jeno's pizza with pepperoni topping at some point before becoming ill. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that eight of the victims have been hospitalized, and four have developed a type of kidney failure. (READ MORE)


If you have these pizzas in your freezer right now, GET RID OF THEM, PRONTO!!!

Staph infection cause of boy's death, [New York] city health officials say

BY ETHAN ROUEN and CARRIE MELAGO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Friday, October 26th 2007, 4:00 AM

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Omar Rivera Jr.'s death on Oct. 14 was likely caused by the superbug MRSA, city said. The seventh-grader had not been at IS211 since start of month.

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City health officials are blaming the tragic death of a Brooklyn boy last week on the drug-resistant superbug that has raised fears across the country.

The seventh-grader, identified by neighbors and students as Omar Rivera Jr., succumbed Oct. 14.

"This child died of a staph infection, particularly a resistant staph infection called MRSA," said Dr. Don Weiss of the city Health Department.

MRSA - short for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - is a staph bacterium that can't be controlled by basic antibiotics. A recent report contends nearly 20,000 people nationwide have been killed by the superbug in one year.

Intermediate School 211 in Canarsie was informed last week about the boy's death and asked the city Health Department to investigate, officials said. Blood tests confirmed the child was infected with the superbug.

City officials sent a letter home with IS 211 students yesterday, notifying parents that a student there had contracted the staph infection. But the letter cautioned parents not to panic.

"At this time, the Health Department does not believe that other children are at increased risk for the infection," the letter reads.

Medical staff were available at the school to answer parents' questions yesterday, and janitors have scrubbed down the building as a precaution.

Although the boy who died hadn't been in school since early in the month, one friend said Omar had shown him the boil-like lesions on his skin in class.

"He showed me the stuff on his back," said Andrew McKenzie, 13. "I didn't know what to do, so I told him to go to the nurse, and then I never saw him again."

According to literature distributed at his funeral, Omar was born in Miami but lived in New York City most of his life. He was a joker and gifted reader who liked basketball and video games.

"I was very sad. He was my friend," said Michael Elmore, 13. "They called us in today and told us to wash our hands frequently."

Added 14-year-old Kimberly Jenkins, "When I walk in the hallway, it doesn't feel right anymore."

Typical staph is rampant and lives unnoticed on most people's skin. If it enters the body through a cut or scrape, a person might notice a small sore or pimple. Usually, the body's immune system or a penicillin-type drug will nip the infection in the bud.

MRSA infections don't respond to those antibiotics, which is what worries health officials and makes the bacteria potentially deadly.

Some Brooklyn parents were alarmed to receive a letter from the school about the superbug.

"I would have preferred if they told me immediately," said Troy Lee, 38, the father of an eighth-grader. "You probably could have stopped a lot of fear if you called the parents in instead of sending home a letter."

Barbara Brown, 54, was nervous about sending her niece back to the school.

"I just hope they get to the source of it," she said. "As a parent, it makes you kind of edgy."

Health officials said it's not possible to know where the boy contracted the infection, and they would not release his name.

It could be weeks before the medical examiner's office releases the exact cause of death.

Earlier this month, a high school student from Virginia was killed by an MRSA infection. At least seven Long Island students have been diagnosed recently with infections related to the superbug, and Iona College also suffered an outbreak. Omar appears to be the first MRSA death in the city.

Officials stressed that staph infections are rarely fatal in children and only spread through direct skin-to-skin contact or by sharing items like towels or razors. Any wounds should be covered with bandages.

"It is not necessary to keep the student out of school or to close school," the city Health Department said in a statement.

An electric sign on IS 211 read: "Our hearts go out to our young angel."

(SOURCE)

Need a fix?? Go to San Fran

Now I have seen everything!!!

Yesterday, the San Francisco Department of Public Health held a symposium on the idea of having a supervised drug house. Yes, you read it right. The injection clinic will have supervised trained personnel shoot up intravenous drug users. The idea is to decrease overdoses, keep dirty needles off the street, and cut the risk of spreading Hepatitis C and HIV. The City will not supply the drugs, the addicts will have to bring it to the clinic. Now, keep in mind, this is the same state and city that wants to have Mary Jane legalized for medicinal purposes. Click here and here to read more about the clinic.

What say you? Will this plan work? Would you want your city government to shell out money to keep addicts addicted?