At Contentious House Abortion Hearing, a Rare Agreement
Supporters and opponents of abortion rights agree on very little, including many facts, but there was a rare bit of consensus at a House judiciary subcommittee hearing Friday morning. The Hyde Amendment, the ban on almost all federal funding for abortion that turns 40 this year, prevents women from having abortions. What to make of that agreement is another matter. To the three anti-abortion activists summoned by Republicans, the estimated 1 million abortions prevented by the ban is life-sav..>> view originalHow Miami-Dade got outgunned in the war on Zika
As the Zika virus spread across Miami-Dade County this summer, a tiny staff of 17 that handles mosquito control for nearly 2.7 million people was outgunned, overwhelmed and maybe even a victim of its own success: in 2009 and 2010, the county managed to dodge a dengue outbreak that infected more than 100 people in Key West and four years later evaded a rash of Chikungunya.But Zika was something different, a mosquito-borne virus with terrifying implications for expectant parents that had ravaged ..>> view originalSmoking losing its cool with kids
(HealthDay News) -- U.S. teens seem to be losing interest in smoking cigarettes and cigars, a new federal report finds.The same can't be said of e-cigarettes.Fewer students reported trying cigarettes or cigars between 2012 and 2014, the new research showed. The report was a joint effort from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products.The report also found that fewer teens reported being curious about cigarettes or c..>> view originalFDA Approves Amgen's Biosimilar Version of Humira
Updated Sept. 23, 2016 7:42 p.m. ET U.S. regulators approved Amgen Inc. AMGN -0.47 % ’s copy of the AbbVie Inc. ABBV -0.15 % ’s anti-inflammatory treatment, Humira, which was the second-biggest selling drug in 2015. Amgen’s drug, known as Amjevita, is only the fourth so-called biosimilar—which are copies of complex biotech medicines—approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Biosimilars were authorized as part of the federal health-care overhaul to reduce ..>> view originalStress Can Cancel Out The Benefits Of 'Healthy' Fat
We know stress can keep you up at night, make you look older and contribute to making mistakes at work. Now, a new study suggests that when you consume a high calorie and high fat diet while stressed, you can also cause your body to burn fewer calories. “Stress changes the way we process food,” Jan Kiecolt-Glaser, the study’s lead author and professor of psychiatry and psychology at Ohio State University told The Huffington Post. Her team found that when women ate a high calorie breakfast loaded..>> view originalMosquitoes in North San Jose test positive for West Nile virus
The Santa Clara County Vector Control District plans to fog a portion of North San Jose next week for mosquitoes infected with the West Nile virus. Courtesy of Santa Clara County Vector Control District SAN JOSE — Summer is over in the Bay Area, but the West Nile virus season is sticking around. Adult mosquitoes recently collected in portions of the 95112, 95131 and 95133 ZIP codes have tested positive for the virus, which can sicken and in severe cases kill humans. In response, the Santa Clara..>> view originalMaine's flu season is off to its earliest start in at least 10 years
The flu has arrived early in Maine. Flu season doesn’t officially begin until October, but the state Center for Disease Control and Prevention is already reporting four confirmed cases of the disease. Two are Maine residents – one from Cumberland County, one from Hancock County. One is an international visitor tested in Androscoggin County, and one is an out-of-state resident tested in Cumberland County. None of those patients was hospitalized. “It is coming,” state epidemiologist Dr. Siiri Ben..>> view originalNo Fortune 100 CEOs Back Republican Donald Trump
No chief executive at the nation’s 100 largest companies had donated to Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign through August, a sharp reversal from 2012, when nearly a third of the CEOs of Fortune 100 companies supported GOP nominee Mitt Romney. During this year’s presidential primaries, 19 of the nation’s top CEOs gave to other Republican candidates, including former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, according...>> view originalThis is America on drugs: A visual guide
CNN reached out to every state for the latest statistics on drug deaths, with half providing data from 2015. It found that drugs deaths continue to rise rapidly in many states.Epidemiologists in several states blame the increasing number of drug-related deaths on greater use of heroin and synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl. "If you look at the cause of death, we just don't normally see increases like this," said Robert Anderson, the chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Cente..>> view originalWhat's The Prognosis For $3 Billion Zuckerberg Health Plan?
Enlarge this image Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have a new goal: cure, manage or eradicate all disease by the end of this century. And they're putting up $3 billion. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption toggle caption Jeff Chiu/AP Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have a new goal: cure, manage or erad..>> view original
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