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According to the Huffington Post, New York State lawmakers have just introduced legislation that would ban doctors from performing what they are calling ‘purity exams’. The Post says the legislation comes right on the heels of T.I. stating that he attends annual check ups with his daughter Deyjah to ensure her hymen is still intact.
Doctor performing the exam typically determine whether or not a woman is still a virgin based on the condition of her hymen. Medical professionals, however, do not consider to to be a reliable indicator of past sexual activity. Lawmakers even cite that virginity is a “social and religious construct.” -
A man has died after the booby trap device he set up in his home went off, shooting him fatally. Officers in Van Buren, Maine, were called to reports of a man being shot in the early evening of Thursday.
The victim had called 911 and reported he had been hit by a weapon, the 8WAGM news service said. A dispatched police patrol and accompanying paramedics found the man injured in his home.
After carrying out an investigation, they found that the front door of the house had been fitted with a device that shot a handgun at anyone attempting to open the door. -
Shelley Morrison, a veteran actress best known for portraying Rosario Salazar on Will & Grace, died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was 83 years old. According to her publicist, via The Associated Press, Morrison passed away from from heart failure….
Debra Messing also honored Morrison on Instagram.“Oh, Shelley… what a loss,” she wrote.
“Our dear Rosario has passed on. Shelley had a career that spanned decades, but she will always be our dear Rosie. All my love to Walter and the entire family. #shelleymorrison.”
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The device, called Tip-Tap, is inexpensive and battery-free through the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to sense when fingertips touch. The device could, therefore, be added to disposable surgical gloves, allowing surgeons to access preoperative planning diagrams in an operating room.
“One of the many possible applications of the device is in surgeries. What typically happens now with operation digital preplanning is that an assistant is responsible for navigating the computer and communicating with the surgeon, but this is slow and difficult,” said Daniel Vogel, a professor in Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. “If the surgeon tries to navigate it themselves using a touchscreen or a mouse, it’s problematic because it would require constant sterilization, and current alternatives such as big gestures tracked by computer vision can get very tiring. -
The “Habsburg jaw,” a facial condition of the Habsburg dynasty of Spanish and Austrian kings and their wives, can be attributed to inbreeding, according to new results published in the Annals of Human Biology.
The new study combined diagnosis of facial deformities using historical portraits with genetic analysis of the degree of relatedness to determine whether there was a direct link. The researchers also investigated the genetic basis of the relationship.
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