Concerns About ‘Structural Racism’ Prompt Major Hospital Network to Change Policies About Babies Born Addicted to Drugs

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A major hospital network in Massachusetts has now revamped its policies regarding babies born addicted to drugs in an attempt to address “significant racial and ethnic inequities” it claims are associated with substance abuse disorder.

On Tuesday, Mass General Brigham, the commonwealth’s largest hospital group, announced that it will no longer automatically report that an infant has been born with drug addiction since the automatic reporting and other such policies “disproportionately affect Black individuals.”

Current commonwealth law demands mandatory reporting of all infants with “physical dependence upon an addictive drug at birth.” However, the hospitals affiliated with Mass General Brigham — including Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and Salem Hospital — will now encourage reporting such cases to child protective services only if the babies are “suffering or at imminent risk of suffering physical or emotional injury.”

Another policy change at Mass General Brigham means that medical professionals will now conduct toxicology tests on newborns and/or “pregnant people” — sometimes referred to as women — only under two conditions. First, hospital workers must be given written consent to perform the tests. Second, they will perform the tests only if the results will affect the medical treatment the mother and/or child receives. . .

“Our new perinatal testing and reporting policy is the latest step in our efforts to address longstanding inequities in substance use disorder care and to provide compassionate, evidence-based support to families, while addressing substance use disorder as a treatable health condition,” said Sarah Wakeman, M.D., senior medical director for Substance Use Disorder at Mass General Brigham. (Read more from “Concerns About ‘Structural Racism’ Prompt Major Hospital Network to Change Policies About Babies Born Addicted to Drugs” HERE)

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Father Says 11-Year-Old Son Was Branded With Hot Iron in Religious Ceremony at Hindu Temple Without His Approval

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The family of an 11-year-old boy is filing a lawsuit against a Hindu temple in Texas after they say he was left disfigured from being branded with a hot iron in a religious ceremony.

Vijay Cheruvu said his son suffers from extreme pain and permanent disfigurement over the branding he received without the father’s notification or approval.

“I was shocked. I didn’t know how to handle it. My primary concern is for my son’s well-being,” Cheruvu said to KHOU-TV.

The lawsuit claims that over a 100 participated in the ceremony at the Ashtalakshmi Temple off Synott Road in Sugar Land in August. Three of those participants were children, including Cheruvu’s son.

He said his son was branded in two spots on his shoulder in the shape of a Hindu god named Vishnu. (Read more from “Father Says 11-Year-Old Son Was Branded With Hot Iron in Religious Ceremony at Hindu Temple Without His Approval” HERE)

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Medical Students Ordered to Bow to ‘Mama Earth’ (VIDEO)

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First-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles have been ordered into a mandatory “structural racism” indoctrination with a guest speaker who has praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorism in Israel and demanded they bow down to “mama earth.” . . .

Attendees were ordered to “get on their knees and touch the floor – ‘mama earth,'” the report said.

The activist had been invited to speaking about housing and the “justice” issues involved, and she thanked “tribes” for “what the settlers call L.A.,” the report explained.

She also addressed the needs of “black,” “brown” and even “houseless” people.

“Mama earth,” Gray Garcia told the kneeling students, “was never meant to be bought, sold, pimped, or played.” (Read more from “Medical Students Ordered to Bow to ‘Mama Earth'” HERE)

Dems Spread Hoax That Trump Called Immigrants ‘Animals’

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Most people, if not all, could see it as reasonable to describe someone who barbarically attacks and murders a college coed as an animal, and that’s what President Trump has done.

However, by the time the campaign of Democrat Joe Biden got through editing a clip of Trump, they had him calling “immigrants” “animals.”

The situation developed after Trump spoke at a Michigan rally Tuesday, promising to ensure justice for the “animal” that killed Riley, a suspect who is an illegal alien. . .

“The Biden campaign cut up the clip, out of context, and spread it across social media with a caption quoting the former president, saying ‘Trump: Democrats said please don’t call immigrants animals. I said, no, they’re not humans, they’re animals.'”

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Alarming Warning on the Threat of a New Pandemic — What You Need to Know

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As avian influenza (bird flu) continues to spread among wild birds in the European Union, officials are warning of the potential for a future human pandemic.

On Wednesday, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) issued an alert noting that “transmission between bird and mammal species has been observed, particularly in fur animal farms, where outbreaks have been reported.”

Although it is rare for infected birds to pass along the virus to humans, the agency warned that new strains could pose a danger in the future.

“These viruses continue to evolve globally, and with the migration of wild birds, new strains carrying potential mutations for mammalian adaptation could be selected,” the alert stated.

“If avian A (H5N1) influenza viruses acquire the ability to spread efficiently among humans, large‐scale transmission could occur due to the lack of immune defenses against H5 viruses in humans.” (Read more from “Alarming Warning on the Threat of a New Pandemic — What You Need to Know” HERE)

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One of Oldest Christian Liturgical Books Expected to Bring in More Than $2.6M

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One of the oldest Christian liturgical books is expected to sell for more than $2.6 million at an auction in London.

The Crosby-Schøyen Codex was written on Egyptian papyrus from around 250-350 A.D., and produced in one of the first monasteries.

“It’s right at that period, that transitional period, when papyrus scroll starts turning into codex form,” Eugenio Donadoni, Christie’s Senior Specialist, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, told Reuters. “So, books as we know them today. And what we have in this book is the earliest known texts of two books of the Bible.”

According to auction house, Christie’s New York, the book is expected to fetch between $2.6 million to $3.8 million.

One scribe wrote 104 pages, with 52 leaves, over a period of 40 years. (Read more from “One of Oldest Christian Liturgical Books Expected to Bring in More Than $2.6M” HERE)

The Largest Fresh Egg Producer in the US Has Found Bird Flu in Chickens at a Texas Plant

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The largest producer of fresh eggs in the U.S. said Tuesday it had temporarily halted production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens, and officials said the virus had also been detected at a poultry facility in Michigan.

Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said in a statement that approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after the infection, avian influenza, was found at a facility in Parmer County, Texas.

The plant is on the Texas-New Mexico border in the Texas Panhandle about 85 miles (137 kilometers) southwest of Amarillo and about 370 miles (595 kilometers) northwest of Dallas. Cal-Maine said it sells most of its eggs in the Southwestern, Southeastern, Midwestern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

“The Company continues to work closely with federal, state and local government officials and focused industry groups to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks and effectively manage the response,” the statement said. (Read more from “The Largest Fresh Egg Producer in the US Has Found Bird Flu in Chickens at a Texas Plant” HERE)

Database Exposes Donations, Biases of Leftist Corporations Like Disney

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The 1792 Exchange launched a database exposing the political biases of woke Fortune 250 companies such as Disney.

The 1792 Exchange is a nonprofit dedicated to providing resources and developing policies to educate Americans about “woke” companies, as well as the dangers with Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing.

The nonprofit launched its “Board Bias” database exposing the political activities and ideological statements from board members and executives.

“The Board Bias database gives folks a fuller picture of the people behind the decisions made by corporations. We hope it’s a tool that informs shareholders and educates the public,” Daniel Cameron, the CEO of the 1792 Exchange, told Breitbart News in a statement.

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Tulsi Gabbard Says RFK Jr. Asked if She Would Serve as His Running Mate, but She ‘Respectfully Declined’

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Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii said in a statement that presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked if she would serve as his running mate, but she declined, ABC News reported.

“I met with Kennedy several times, and we have become good friends,” Gabbard noted in a statement, according to the outlet. “He asked if I would be his running mate. After careful consideration, I respectfully declined.”

ABC News reported that an individual close to Kennedy indicated, “There were definitely meetings, but it didn’t work out.”

“We talked to a bunch of people,” the individual noted, according to the outlet. “Tulsi’s a rock star no matter what.” (Read more from “Tulsi Gabbard Says RFK Jr. Asked if She Would Serve as His Running Mate, but She ‘Respectfully Declined’” HERE)

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Fmr Obama Campaign Manager: GOP ‘Changing the Rules’ in the Middle of Election

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Former Obama 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Republicans would be “changing the rules” in the middle of an election when discussing former President Donald Trump and Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen calling on the state legislature to assign it’s Electoral College votes with the winner-take-all standard.

Co-host Jonathan Lemire said, “If that changes and we don’t know that it will, the state legislature is going to look at it, but if that changes, that takes away Biden’s best path to win because if you get, if he wins Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, then loses the other swing states and no longer picks up the one in, Nebraska that’s 269.”

Messina said, “This is what the modern Republican Party has become, they’re now changing the rules in the middle trying to benefit themselves. This is the hell that Donald Trump hath wrought.” (Read more from “Fmr Obama Campaign Manager: GOP ‘Changing the Rules’ in the Middle of Election” HERE)

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