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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 623 views • unknown
Why you should remain a virgin until you are married Teens having sex. It's in the movies, on TV, and splattered on the pages of magazines. It seems that having sex makes many teens feel that they are mature, popular, normal, or loved. Teens often mistake sex for love - and fondling for affection. But…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
2020 will long be remembered as the year that there were 1.7 million worldwide deaths due to COVID-19. Amid this horrible statistic there are a couple of medical bright spots worth noting. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the last Ebola patient was discharged. The Ebola virus is the second most deadly…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A New Jersey mega-church helped pay off $13.7 million in medical debt for roughly 3,800 individuals and families in their community. Lead Pastor and founder of Liquid Church, Tim Lucas said the church discovered that medical debt was destroying the financial stability of families in their community.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Some situations just seem hopeless. Sports fans in Cleveland and Cincinnati believe they have been suffering for over 30 years. “Everybody’s got the blues,” Vincent Morano told the Cincinnati Inquirer.” Thirty years without a championship in the state has led Morano and other fans to petition the Ohio…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A pair of sisters from Nebraska were reunited after 50 years when one sister ended up becoming the other’s medication aide while she was recovering from coronavirus. Bev Boro serves as a medication aide at a care facility in Fremont. She noticed the name of Doris Crippen on the patient list and was excited…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
19-year-old Adnan Khurram impersonated a doctor at one of India’s top hospitals for five months. Khurram wore a lab coat and carried a stethoscope as he routinely chatted with patients at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Even though he had no medical training he impressed the staff…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In Toledo, Ohio KC Ahlers’ son was born with a rare medical condition. In a desperate attempt to raise money for medical care he posted a flyer near a mall asking for donations. Someone posted a sign next to the flyer that read: “Stop asking for money. Let the baby die. It’s called Darwinism. Happy Holidays.”…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Allen Marshall saved $900 dollars for his mother’s 97th birthday party and to buy a special tool. When the coronavirus pandemic meant that his mother could not have a party, the Michigan man decided that the tool could wait, because he wanted to do something to bless health care workers in his area.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Noa Pothoven, a 17-year-old girl from the Netherlands, was sexually assaulted at a school party when she was 11 and raped by two men at age 14. She began to struggle with anorexia and depression and was placed in a group home for mentally ill children, where her condition worsened. She stopped eating…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
On ABC’s television show “The Good Doctor” Dr. Shaun Murphy is a medical resident with Autism. Murphy is very smart and can see medical procedures in his mind before they ever begin. However, he does struggle with social interaction, struggling with how to deal with emotions. In season one Murphy made…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
During a resurgence of the pandemic after Christmas 2020, an Oregon insurance organization encouraged weary health care workers and supported local restaurants at the same time. The insurance fund SAIF used a wellness grant to fund hot, individually wrapped meals from some of the city’s favorite restaurants…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
The most common way to think about getting enough rest is getting enough sleep. However medical internist Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith said the idea of rest should be considered more like the word ‘restoration’ which is vital to many different areas of life. For Dalton-Smith, rest encompasses physical mental…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
According to Medical News Today, “There are a number of health and lifestyle factors – obesity, smoking, air pollution – that are known to be risk factors for early mortality and receive considerable attention. New research has suggested that social connections should be added to this list, with a study…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
According to Medical News Today, • “A 2010 survey of more than 3,000 adults in the US found that more than a third of respondents aged 45 and older were categorized as lonely • Younger adults aged 45-49 reported higher rates of loneliness than adults aged 70 and older • Lonely adults were significantly…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
When Michelle Brenner was furloughed from her job as a sales manager, she decided to use her time to help other people. While Brenner was shopping, she felt inspired to make homemade lasagna for those who could not get out during the pandemic. She started with a social media post offering to cook and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
On April 4, 2020 Luciana Lira, a Connecticut school teacher spoke to Zully, a mother of one of her school children and learned that she had two medical issues. She was pregnant and about to give birth, and she had just tested positive for COVID-19. After hanging up the phone with Zully, she immediately…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
16-year-old TJ Kim has spent a lot of time hoping to make a difference in Virginia and Maryland by collecting and flying personal protective equipment to rural hospitals. Kim donated 4,300 pieces of PPE to August Health in Virginia. Over the three months prior to that, Kim made close to a dozen flights…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Will Carroll, the drummer for thrash metal band Death Angel, spent twelve days in a medically induced coma after being diagnosed with the Covid-19 virus and experienced strong visions. Will said he “saw himself leave his body and plummet down to hell, where Satan punished him for the deadly sin of sloth.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
When police arrested 45-year-old Nicole Mintner in Florida for driving under the influence she had an interesting defense. She demanded that police release her on the grounds that “Jesus drank wine and so did I.” Nicole later confessed to having also taken Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication not mentioned…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A study funded by health care insurer Cigna found that fifty-eight percent of 20,000 American reported feeling lonely in 2018. The following year, the number had increased to sixty-one percent prompted chief medical officer Doug Nemecek to say that loneliness is at epidemic proportions, and the coronavirus…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus has taken a toll on patients in hospitals and health care facilities because those people are isolated and cannot connect directly with their families. John Lynch experienced separation when his father, who was at a memory care unit passed away.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
First responders in Bulgaria used cheerful face masks to combat fears over the spread of the coronvirus. The masks were printed with owls, dinosaurs, llamas, and monkeys and were given to hundreds of doctors and police officers at no cost. The company that made the special masks normally produced sleeping…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A review of several studies published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal confirms what many parents feared about the potentially harmful impact of social media. The reviews stated the teenagers who spend less time socializing in person and have easy access to online information about suicide…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A published study led by a facial plastic surgeon found a jump in the number of facial injuries caused by cell phones. Dr. Boris Paskhover of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School said he reviewed 20 years of data and found an increase in injuries beginning in 2006, when smartphones entered the market. Researchers…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
An article in Journal of Community Health reported the findings of researchers who studied the pervasiveness of “short sleep duration,” which they defined as less than seven hours per night. In the abstract of the article the authors wrote, “In 2018, the highest levels of short sleep duration were found…