HEALTH AND SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

May 16, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Wearing Workout Clothes in an MRI Machine Can Burn You, Hospitals Warn (NBC)
• Wind blew a bounce house onto a California highway — with a child still inside it (Washington Post)
• The five most expensive drugs in the U.S. (CNN)
• Vermont becomes first state to allow drug imports from Canada (Politico)
• Experimental vaccine approved for Ebola in Congo  (ABC)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

•  Deadly Convenience: Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll (New York Times)
• ‘Memory transplant’ achieved in snails (BBC)
• Facebook suspends 200 apps in wake of Cambridge Analytica scandal (Washington Post)
• Trump White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts (Science)
• FCC traces 96 million spammy robocalls to one Florida man (Mashable)

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HEALTH

Wearing Workout Clothes in an MRI Machine Can Burn You, Hospitals Warn (NBC)

Doctors say the clothing can get up to 150 degrees.

Wind blew a bounce house onto a California highway - with a child still inside it (Washington Post)

A child’s bouncing session inside an inflatable playhouse last weekend took a frightening turn when a gust of wind blew the structure onto a busy Southern California highway, authorities said. The ordeal was the latest harrowing incident involving bounce houses, popular party rental items for children and sometimes adults.

The five most expensive drugs in the U.S. (CNN)

In January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the pharmaceutical industry of "getting away with murder" with high price increases, and promised to do something about it. He's set to share his plan to do so Friday.

Vermont becomes first state to allow drug imports from Canada (Politico)

Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott Wednesday signed legislation making his state the first to legalize importing prescription drugs from Canada, an idea president Donald Trump's health officials oppose that's also drawn fierce opposition from the pharmaceutical industry.

Experimental vaccine approved for ebola in Congo (ABC)

As the deadly Ebola virus rises again in central Africa, health officials have decided to try a different approach to fight back. At least 19 deaths have been tied to the current outbreak of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Bikoro Health Zone, Equateur Province. There were 39 confirmed and suspected cases identified between April 4 and May 13, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO has received approval to use an experimental Ebola vaccine, using a “ring vaccination” approach, around the epicenter of the outbreak in the Congo.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Deadly Convenience:  Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll (New York Times)

Weaned from using a key, drivers have left cars running in garages, spewing exhaust into homes. Despite years of deaths, regulatory action has lagged.

‘Memory transplant’ achieved in snails (BBC)

A team successfully transplanted memories by transferring a form of genetic information called RNA from one snail into another. The snails were trained to develop a defensive reaction. When the RNA was inserted into snails that had not undergone this process, they behaved just as if they had been sensitised.

Facebook suspends 200 apps in wake of Cambridge Analytica scandal (Washington Post)

Facebook said Monday morning that it had suspended roughly 200 apps amid an ongoing investigation prompted by the Cambridge Analytica scandal into whether services on the site had improperly used or collected users' personal data.

Trump White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts (Science)

You can't manage what you don't measure. The adage is especially relevant for climate-warming greenhouse gases, which are crucial to manage—and challenging to measure.

FCC traces 96 million spammy robocalls to one Florida man (Mashable)

Have you ever gotten a phone call from a number that looked very similar to your own, only to pick up and realize it's a robocall trying to sell you something?