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On June 25th, Aspen Dental practices all across the United States offered veterans free dental service, giving many of them a much-needed cost-free service.

Yale-New Haven Hospital recently declared a first for them: they treated over 20 cases of overdoses in just four hours. While it is not usual for them to see several per day, it is most unusual to see that many in such a short time span.

A British engineer, located in Hull, United Kingdom, has said that he had to diagnose himself with cancer after his GPs failed to do so on nine separate occasions.

A Buda, Texas, man has been hospitalized with a flesh-eating infection after spending a day at the beach with his family. He is the second Texas man to be sickened by the bacteria in two weeks.
Adrian Ruiz, 42, spent the day with his family in Port Aransas, Texas, near Corpus Christi, to celebrate Father’s Day. But that Sunday, Ruiz developed a fever and headache and noticed a rash on his leg.

The body seems to run like a well-oiled machine when people listen to their internal clocks. For example, the body “prefers” sleeping at night instead of during the day, and working during the day instead of at night.
The same is true when it comes to eating patterns, say researchers. When a person eats may be just as important as when they sleep.

I’ve written before about the importance of not using a smartphone (or other electronic devices) in bed at night because the blue light emitted from them can wreak havoc on your sleep pattern. But that’s not all that can happen from using your phone ‘inappropriately.’ Actually, you could even go blind (for a minute).

Lisa Alamia underwent jaw surgery for an overbite just before Christmas of 2015. But when the Texas-born and raised mother of three woke up, she had a British accent.
Her husband, Richard, noticed that his wife was sounding unlike her usual self and asked her doctor if the accent would go away. The doctor assured the couple that within a couple of weeks, she’d regain her normal speech patterns, but that didn’t happen. Lisa still speaks with an English accent that baffles many people where she lives.
Alamia says of the confusion she causes:

Scientists have been able to isolate powerful HIV antibodies, which are classified as immune system-protecting proteins which are targeted against the virus. This means that it could be possible in the near future to prevent and even destroy HIV before its devastating effects take hold on a patient.

On June 19, an 18-year-old teen from Ohio died after contracting an infection caused by a rare brain-eating amoeba.
Local, state, and national officials are investigating the death, which occurred after the young woman, Lauren Seitz, visited the U.S. National Whitewater Center (USNWC) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Though Seitz lives in Ohio, she was visiting some southern states on a youth mission music tour with her church, Church of the Messiah United Methodist Church. The church is located in Westerville, Ohio.

Josh Marshall won St. Baldrick’s Foundation #BestBaldDad Contest for childhood cancer. The dad not only went bald for his cancer-stricken son, but also got a tattoo to match his son’s brain surgery scar.