FDA limits packaging for anti-diarrhea medicine loperamide (Imodium) to encourage safe use. The FDA already slapped a warning on OTC loperamide labeling in the spring of 2017, cautioning users about the dangers of misuse. Is Imodium still on the market? Loperamide is FDA-approved to help control symptoms of diarrhea, including…
Generally, warming is greater over land than over the oceans because water is slower to absorb and release heat (thermal inertia). Simple physics suggests that when you put more heat into the climate system, land should warm more quickly than oceans. This is because land has … One thing physics tells…
Roscommon was the third Connacht county both to win an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC), as well as to appear in the final, following Mayo and Galway. The team last won the Connacht Senior Championship in 2019, the All-Ireland Senior Championship in 1944 and the National League in 1979. The…
Social media isn’t destroying communication skills, it’s just changing them. Interaction via social media is still interaction between two or more conscious human beings, and nothing about it makes it inherently worse than other forms of communication. While this helps them communicate more efficiently, it diminishes their communication effectiveness. The…
The Amish Heritage Foundation is holding its 2nd annual conference, Overturning WI v. Yoder: Making Education a Federal Right for All Children, at Columbia University on Saturday, November 16. Bontrager, who is also an author, is one of many featured speakers at the conference. A trial and circuit court upheld…
To date, no evidence for supersymmetry has been found, and experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have ruled out the simplest supersymmetric models. If supersymmetry does exist, there are two main possibilities: Either all the supersymmetric particles are too heavy to be produced at the … After years of searching and…
25. The three-year anniversary of Klay Thompson’s devastating knee injury is Monday, the day of Game 5 of the NBA Finals between his Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics. Thompson, 32, tore his ACLtore his ACLAn anterior cruciate ligament injury occurs when the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is either…
But when she called Verizon, they said it would cost $500 to end her contract – money she simply didn’t have. Finally, after a massive Change.org petition, Cynthia got Verizon to change its policies so domestic abuse victims like Cynthia’s sister could easily cancel their contracts. Change.org is a worldwide…
Admittedly, we have recorded snow in every month except for July, and in a typical year we might get snow anywhere from October through May. It may be July, but there’s snow in central Alberta. People had to deal with winter driving conditions as blowing snow reduced visibility on … Only…
The US last had a trade surplus in 1975. In 1975, U.S. exports exceeded imports by $12,400 million, but that would be the last trade surplus the United States would see in the 20th … The US trade deficit widened sharply to a record high of $109.8 billion in March of…