Your Health This (Evil) Week

In this edition of Your Health, we explore pediatrician quackery, bullying bosses, and the tragic legacy of the World Trade Center dust.

A whopping 17 percent of all doctors claiming to be pediatricians aren’t certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.

Employees in the US are 50% more likely to be bullied in the workplace compared to people in Scandinavia. What’s more, the Americans don’t even know they are being bullied, saying its just the office culture in their country. Pair that with the 5 weeks standard holiday and I am thinking we should all start working in Europe.

Antibodies taken from the blood of people who survived infection with the lethal strain of bird flu H5N1 may be able to prevent and treat the disease in others (okay just mice at the moment, but hey....). The evil effects of viruses are turned around and used to kill them...dum dum dummm.

We all know that a high fat diet is evil. But did you know that it will make you more likely to die from the hyperthermia when taking ecstasy. So THAT’S why they only hand out fresh fruit at raves.

MRSA superbugs, once confined to hospitals, are spreading their evil wider throughout the community - especially in prisons and poor, crowded neighborhoods. Super evil, I tell you.

The Axis of Evil is now responsible for giving rare blood cancers to survivors of the World Trade Center disaster. Doctors fear these long latency diseases might start appearing in many people exposed to the toxic dust from the WTC collapse.

I’ve always thought that peanut butter was corrupt and malicious - why else could such a seemingly benign sandwich spread hold the power to kill me just a teaspoon of it’s nutty power? Now that peanut butter and salmonella bacteria have joined forces, the results have been dreadful for all.