July 8,  2020 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• New coronavirus form more contagious, similar in severity, study shows (Nation)
• Warning of serious brain disorders in people with mild coronavirus symptoms  (Guardian)
• At Least 5 States Set Single-Day Coronavirus Case Records (New York Times)
• Suspected case of Bubonic Plague in China’s inner Mongolia (CNN)
• Minimizing the effects of wildfire smoke due to COVID-19 (USFA)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• The U.S. government is 'looking at' banning TikTok due to national security concerns (USA Today)
• Siberian arctic up to 10 degrees warmer in June (BBC)
• Hundreds of elephants found dead in Botswana (BBC)

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June 18,  2020 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• On the bleeding edge of the COVID-19 fight (San Diego Union-Tribune) Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first lifesaving drug (BBC)
• Record spikes in new coronavirus cases, hospitalizations sweep parts of U.S. (Reuters)
• Hydroxychloroquine: FDA pulls emergency use of malaria drug touted by Trump to treat the coronavirus (USA Today)
• 7 Things to Know About Hand Sanitizer (AARP)
• What to Do If You Have Coronavirus and No Caregiver to Help(AARP)
• What Experts Say You Can Do to Treat Yourself at Home If You Have a Mild Case of COVID-19 (Healthline)
• Why some nursing homes are better than others at protecting residents and staff from COVID-19 (Conversation)
• 1st-Known U.S. Lung Transplant For COVID-19 Patient Performed In Chicago (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Thousands of Tons of Microplastics Are Falling from the Sky (Scientific American)
• Microsoft won’t sell police its facial-recognition technology, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM (Washington Post)
• Tesla defied county orders so it could restart production. Days later, workers tested positive for the coronavirus.(Washington Post)
• Twitter has suspended more than 23,000 accounts it says were linked to the Chinese Communist Party (Washington Post)

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April 16, 2020 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future—including the latest breakthroughs impacting COVID-19.

• Coronavirus could attack immune system like HIV by targeting protective cells, warn scientists  (South China Morning Post)
• Heart Damage in COVID-19 Patients Puzzles Doctors (Scientific American)
• Coronavirus infection may cause lasting damage throughout the body, doctors fear (Los Angeles Times)
• French officials report heart incidents in experimental coronavirus treatments with hydroxychloroquine (The Hill)
• Mortality rate of COVID-19 patients on ventilators (Physicians Weekly)
• Acupuncture and herbs COVID-19 (coronavirus) findings (Healthcare Medicine Institute)
• Cats and ferrets can be infected with COVID-19 (Web MD)
• Coronavirus may `reactivate’ in cured patients, Korean CDC says (Bloomberg News)
• Why Some Doctors Are Now Moving Away From Ventilator Treatments for Coronavirus Patients (Time)

SCIENCE

• Google's fast-growing Meet video tool getting Zoom-like layout, Gmail link  (Reuters)
• Toyota-backed Pony.ai to offer autonomous delivery service in California (Reuters)
• Foreign state hackers target U.S. coronavirus treatment research: FBI official (Reuters)

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February 25, 2020 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Live updates: Spread of coronavirus in U.S. appears inevitable, health officials warn (Washington Post)
• Analysis: How close are we to a pandemic? (BBC)
• Coronavirus Outbreak Sees China Ban Trade and Consumption of Wild Animals ((Newsweek)

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• These 26 words 'created the internet.' The US government is coming for them (CNN)
• Jeff Bezos pledges $10 billion to fight climate change: ‘`We can save the earth’ (HuffPost)
• Images from Space Show Antarctica Melting After Hottest Day Ever Recorded (Newsweek)

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February 6, 2020 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Medicaid cuts may force retirees out of nursing homes (New York Times)
• ‘I would like a medal for smoking’: Old radio shows haunt Rush Limbaugh after he reveals advanced lung cancer (RawStory)
• Bayer considers new tactic in Roundup settlement talks (Reuters)
• San Diego judge orders Johnson & Johnson to pay $344M for ‘deceptive’ pelvic mesh marketing (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Study Links Autism To 'Insulation' That Coats Brain Cells And Speeds Signals : Shots - Health News 

SCIENCE AND TECH

• As primary season gets underway, YouTube cracks down on doctored election videos (Washington Post)
• Stephen King quits Facebook over ‘flood of false information’ and privacy concerns (Washington Post)
• The containers the U.S. plans to use for nuclear waste storage may corrode (Science News)

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January 6, 2020 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Health officials warn of measles exposure at five U.S. airports (ABC)
• Number of children swallowing dangerous magnets surges as industry largely polices itself (Washington Post)
• Micro Implants Could Restore Standing and Walking (Science News Daily)
• In a first, an Ebola vaccine wins approval from the FDA (Science News)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• A decade on earth, captured from space (Reuters)
• New lithium-sulfur battery could charge your phone for five days, researchers say  (CNN)

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September 19, 2019 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Babies born with deformed hands spark investigation in German (CNN)
• India announces ban on e-cigarettes (BBC)
• How climate crisis is accelerating the global spread of deadly dengue fever (CNN)
• Vaping related illnesses surge as FDA announces criminal probe (Washington Post)
• Most young children shouldn’t drink plant-based milk, new health guidelines say (CNN)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Space-X wants to beam Internet across Southern states by late 2020 (CNN)
• Facebook plans launch of its own “Supreme Court” for handling takedown appeals (Ars Technica)

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By José A. Álvarez, County of San Diego Communications Office

Video by James Kecskes

February 8, 2019 (San Diego) - It’s February – the time of year when our attention turns to matters of the heart. What better time to get your blood pressure checked?

On Thursday, Feb. 14, people can get their blood pressure checked for free at any of nearly 300 locations across the U.S. and Mexico for Love Your Heart Day. Many faith-based organizations are getting in on the action by hosting blood pressure checks this weekend on Feb. 9 and 10.

January 3, 2019 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Israeli researchers raise $1 million for revolutionary eye drops that could replace glasses (Nocamels)
• In Screening for Suicide Risk, Facebook Takes On Tricky Public Health Role (New York Times)
• Big Pharma ushers in new year by raising prices of more than 1,000 drugs (CBS)

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• A rising threat to wildlife: electrocution (New York Times)
• 19 insanely cool gadgets that are going to sell out this year (Prime8)
• China ‘lifts mysterious veil’ by landing on moon’s dark side (Reuters)

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December 19, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder (Reuters)
• Surgeon General Warns Youth Vaping Is Now An 'Epidemic'  (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• D.C. attorney general sues Facebook over alleged privacy violations from Cambridge Analytica scandal (Washington Post)
• Kiwibot delivery robot catches fire after `human error’ (BBC)
• Amazon uses dummy parcels to catch thieves (BBC)
• Here's how to block robocalls on iPhone and Android (Fox News)
• How to stop Apple and Google from tracking you (Fox News)

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October 31, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Malaria: Sniffer dogs to help in effort to eradicate the disease (BBC)
• Air pollution may lead to dementia in older women (USC)
• When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• ‘Right-to-repair’ advocates claim major victory in new smartphone copyright exemption (Washington Post)
• More than a dozen cities are challenging the FCC over how to deploy 5G cell sites
• Trump is rolling back two Obama-era memos on wireless technology and replacing them with his own ‘national spectrum strategy’
• Amazon met with ICE officials over facial-recognition system that could identify immigrants
• Ready to Get Off Facebook? Reason Reviews 5 Alternative Social Networks (Reason)
• 60% of world's wildlife has been wiped out since 1970 (CBC)
• Coastal Pacific Oxygen Levels Now Plummet Once A Year (NPR)

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October 4, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Man diagnosed with world's first human case of rat disease hepatitis E (CBS)
• Only these 8 states require sex education classes to mention consent (CNN)
• How Trump may actually succeed at lowering drug prices (Jewish World Review)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• The Facebook hack affecting 50 million people also let the attackers access users' Tinder, Spotify, and Instagram accounts (Business Insider)
• NASA captures polluted Carolina rivers spilling into ocean after Florence (Time)
• Physics Nobel for laser pioneers includes first woman in 55 years  (Reuters)
• A Nonprofit Plans to Store Human Knowledge in DNA and Store It on the Moon (Apple News)

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July 25, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Reports Suggest Children Throughout China Likely Injected With Faulty Vaccines (NPR)
• Chinese Company's Flawed Vaccines Draw Anger And A Criminal Inquiry  (NPR)
• Marines Who Fired Rocket Launchers Now Worry About Their Brains (NPR)
• Pepperidge Farm recalls Goldfish crackers amid salmonella scare (NPR)
• Ticks And Lyme Disease: 3 Factors Determine Risk Of Infection  (NPR)
• Friends with Benefits: The latest research (Jewish World Review)
• Doctors Worry as Cancer Study Reveals Dark Side of Complementary Medicine (Inverse)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Adobe is using machine learning to make it easier to spot Photoshopped images (The Verge)
• Physicists Go Small: Let's Put A Particle Accelerator On A Chip (NPR)
• Migrating Arctic Geese Are Confused, Exhausted By Rising Temperatures (NPR)

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May 23, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• The FDA approved a drug that treats opioid addiction that isn’t addictive itself (Popular Science)
• Lost mothers: maternal mortality in the U.S. (NPR)
• Did Leaded Gasoline Contribute to the U.S. Baby Bust?  (Reason)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Circuit breaker still in use despite safety concerns (Jewish World Review)
• DNA Data From 100 Crime Scenes Has Been Uploaded To A Genealogy Website — Just Like The Golden State Killer
• NASA looks to send a small nuclear reactor to the moon and Mars  (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Uber ends Arizona self-driving program following fatality (Reuters)
• Why privacy settings can't keep your location secret  (Marketplace)
• Security advocates challenge facial recognition in policing  (CS Monitor)

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April 19, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Romaine lettuce caused an ongoing e-coli outbreak, CDC says (Time Magazine)
• UC San Diego Bio-Engineers Develop Wearable Device To Monitor Stomach Activity (KPBS)
• Medicare Advisers Recommend Payment Cuts To Many Free-Standing ERs (NPR)

 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Officials warn Russian hackers targeting U.S. routers (CBS)
• Pentagon announces 2000% increase in Russian trolls since Friday (Axios)
• Those stickers warning that repairs will void your warranty are nonsense, FTC says (Washington Post)
• The oceans’ circulation hasn’t been this sluggish in 1,000 years. That’s bad news. (Washington Post)
• Thousands of apps in Google Play Store may be illegally tracking children, study finds (Washington Post )
• More than 100 parts for NASA's Orion capsule to be 3D printed  (Reuters)

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