Happy Thanksgiving, Grandma … guess what? I’m quitting my job to raise chickens
Thanksgiving is often a time to share big news. The entire family, maybe some relatives you rarely see, is there to celebrate when you announce, “I’m getting married!” or “I’ve been promoted!”On the flip side, Thanksgiving is also when some people drop bombshells — news that is likely to upset or surprise some family members. “We’re getting a divorce,” “I’m gay,” or “We’re moving,” are a few examples.You can deliver news like this in a way that makes it less stressful for yourself and gentler on your loved ones, says Emanuel Maidenberg, a clinical professor of psychiatry and director of the ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - November 20, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

A gold star for the nurseries that have stopped being glitter bugs | Jules Howard
As well as polluting our seas with microplastics, the devilish dandruff turns up all over my house and about my person – I applaud those schools banning itWhat will the rocks record about the lives we lead? What might a future palaeontologist, human or otherwise, make of the structures that will come to signify these moments in which you and I live our lives? They will notice extinctions, of course. Fossils of mammals ’ tusks and horns will abound in the rocks, only to disappear when we humans turn up. They will come across our mines – enormous trace fossils, perhaps the largest ever to have existed. They will see, b...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 20, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Jules Howard Tags: Pollution Plastics Environment Children Oceans Society Schools Education UK news Science Source Type: news

The latest poop from the turkey coop
(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace approximately 10 percent of coal used in electricity generation, reducing greenhouse gases and providing an alternative energy source, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 20, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Thyroid transporter critical for brain development
According to a study, published in theJournal of Neuroscience, the thyroid hormone transporter MCT8 is essential for the early brain development in chickens. Science Daily
Source: Society for Endocrinology - November 7, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news

McDonald ' s Sets New Welfare Standards for Chickens McDonald ' s Sets New Welfare Standards for Chickens
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Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 30, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news

McDonald's sets new welfare standards for chickens
CHICAGO (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp will require suppliers to follow new standards for raising and slaughtering chickens served in its restaurants, the company said on Friday, the latest changes affecting popular menu items like McNuggets.
Source: Reuters: Health - October 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Backyard chicken trend causes spike in infections, 1 fatal, CDC reports
The popular trend of raising backyard chickens is bringing with it a soaring number of illnesses from poultry-related diseases, some of them fatal, U.S. health officials say.
Source: CBC | Health - October 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news

Backyard chicken trend turns deadly
Popular trend of raising backyard chickens in U.S. cities and suburbs brings a soaring number of illnesses from poultry-related diseases, at least one of them fatal
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - October 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Backyard chicken trend causes spike in infections, 1 fatal
Backyard chickens bring little-known risk of disease; CDC says infections have spiked
Source: ABC News: Health - October 19, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Chicken food poisoning levels falling
The bug campylobacter, present in some chickens, is the leading cause of food poisoning in the UK.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - October 18, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

South Sudan: Endless Cycles of Displacement Continue Along the Northern Frontier
October 17, 2017Jez Goeldi knew something was wrong when the chaotic buzz of the nearby market suddenly disappeared, leaving him and his colleagues engulfed by an eerie silence. The team was inside the Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical facility in Aburoc, in the White Nile region of South Sudan. "The donkeys and chickens were gone, and that told me that the population had yet again been forced to flee," says Goeldi, the 36-year-old deputy logistics coordinator for MSF.
Source: MSF News - October 17, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Elias Primoff Source Type: news

Italy culls birds after five H5N8 avian flu outbreaks in October
ROME (Reuters) - Italy has had five outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian flu in farms the central and northern parts of the country since the start of the month and about 880,000 chickens, ducks and turkeys will be culled, officials said on Wednesday.
Source: Reuters: Health - October 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Associations between societal disapproval and changes in symptoms of PTSD and appetitive aggression following treatment among high-risk South African males - Sommer J, Hinsberger M, Holtzhausen L, Kaminer D, Seedat S, Elbert T, Augsburger M, Maercker A, Weierstall R.
Background: In violent communities, social rejection as a person with victim-offender attributes is associated with more intense symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a higher propensity towards violence, i.e. appetitive aggression. Successf...
Source: SafetyLit - October 4, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Chickens a Sentinel Species for West Nile
(MedPage Today) -- Researchers in California using domesticated fowl to track viral spread
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - September 30, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

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