Author: Matt Dowd

Medical marijuana may now be legal in 24 jurisdictions across the U.S., but that doesn’t mean there’s a medical marijuana dispensary in every major city throughout these states and the capital. So in order to obtain the medicinal marijuana that will treat their children, a growing number of parents are driving hours away from their […]

When you see a bed bug in your home, you can be assured that there are a lot more of them that you don’t see. Once this happens, you may wonder- bed bugs how do you kill them? There are a few methods that work, and this is generally best done by a pest control […]

Soon, Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, FL’s Grand Central District will be transformed into a gigantic, 1.25-mile long red ribbon to honor World AIDS Day. Jim Buresch, the artist behind the Rock It Red! St. Pete campaign, will wrap 172 trees with red fabric to create a temporary public arts installation, which he hopes will […]

The United States is a sleep-deprived nation. Though adults are supposed to get an average of eight to eight and a half hours of sleep every night, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that almost one third of all Americans don’t even get seven hours of sleep a night. “One of […]

Dr. Martin Salia, a doctor who had been treating patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone and was being treated for Ebola at a Nebraskan hospital upon returning home, has recently become the second victim to pass away from the disease in the U.S. Salia was a citizen of Sierra Leone and had come to the […]

If you’ve already gotten the sniffles this fall, it might not be a cold that’s bothering you. Many people think that allergies are an exclusively spring-time malady, but as people spend more and more time indoors as the weather turns chillier, what’s in the home can also cause an allergy flareup. According to The Huffington […]