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Perhaps you’ve heard of “negging”, the term problematically popularised by Neil Strauss in his utterly cursed book about pick-up artist culture, The Game. It involves veiling something negative with a thin layer of praise to wobble…

A salmonella outbreak from cantaloupes has made dozens sick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Friday. A total of 43 people have gotten sick from salmonella, with 17 needing to be hospitalized across 15 states,…

Nearly two dozen toddlers have been impacted by lead poisoning linked to applesauce pouches, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Monday, sparking a warning for doctors across the country. Twenty-two cases of lead poisoning…

The holiday season is both the busiest time of the year and the time when people are most likely to get sick—not a great combination. There’s never a good time to get sick, but it can be especially frustrating when you are stuck in bed…

Chumbawamba sang about getting back down and back up again, but respiratory virus season may be knocking you out. Your saving grace? The morning cup of joe. You may not be able to taste it, but you can feel its energizing jolt. Might it…

DENVER —  He vanished into thin air.He disappeared under an avalanche of pressure.He evaporated amid a mountain of howls.Handed the most important cue of his career, he didn’t show up.In the biggest night of the Lakers season, he took the…

British IBM employee Ian Clifford, 50, sued his company for disability discrimination. His argument was that while IBM’s sickness-and-accident plan gave him 75% of his £72,037.44 salary (which translates to £54,028 or approximately…

Ian Clifford, a senior IT worker who has been on sick leave for the past 15 years, has taken legal action against tech giant International Business Machines (IBM) alleging discrimination. Clifford claims that IBM failed to increase his…

The mother of the Honduran teenager who died Wednesday in U.S. custody told The Associated Press that her son had no indications of ill health before his death, as far as she knew.Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza, 17, was placed at the Gulf…

A senior tech worker who was on sick leave since 2008 and still getting an annual salary of £54,000 ($AU101,221) took legal action because he wasn’t given a pay rise.Ian Clifford claimed he was the victim of disability discrimination…