17-year-old Chloe Kim wanted some ice cream in the middle of her first Olympic event

David Ramos/Getty Images 17-year-old Chloe Kim is expected to become one of the next great American Olympic stars. She is a heavy favorite to win gold in the ladies’ halfpipe. Despite all the pressure of Kim’s first Olympics, she simply wanted some ice cream in the middle of her first event. There is a lot […]

That ridiculous ice cream sex scene in ‘Fifty Shades Freed’ is a lot different in the books

Universal Pictures Warning: There are major spoilers ahead for “Fifty Shades Freed.” “Fifty Shades Freed” possibly has more sex scenes than the first two entries in the first two “Fifty Shades of Grey” movies. See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: Here’s what might happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon […]

Mysterious explosion of a deadly plague may come down to a sugar in ice cream

Enlarge (credit: Zechariah Judy) In the early 2000s, a deadly gut infection began to surge. After decades of lurking in intestines and hospitals—more opportunistic nuisance than lethal threat—the bacterium Clostridium difficile abruptly exploded, spreading rapidly and causing more severe diarrheal disease than ever before. By 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that […]

Rosacea treatment BEFORE and after: Woman CURED her skin with £19.95 cream

Rachael Miles, 36, has rosacea, a common long-term and poorly-understood skin condition that mainly affects the face. She started experiencing symptoms, which include flushing, burning and spots, after a particularly traumatic break up. The Glasgow-based civil servant revealed how discovering her partner of three years had been cheating on her last Christmas triggered the condition. […]

Potent Nocebo: The more expensive a harmless cream, the more pain it inflicts

Enlarge / Ow. (credit: Getty Images | Media for Medical) The mind is a powerful medicine. Given an ineffective treatment, patients can experience real health improvements by simply believing that the treatment works—the placebo effect. But this blissful delusion has a dark side: when a harmless placebo becomes effective, it becomes harmful, too, causing side-effects […]