August 14, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Critics outraged over EPA’s proposed rule change on asbestos (CBS News)
• Asbestos in a Crayon, Benzene in a Marker: a School Supply Study’s Toxic Results (New York Times)
• Scientists Have Found an Important Reason You Might Want to Reconsider Taking Probiotics (Business Insider)
• Monsanto ordered to pay $289m as jury rules weed killer caused man's cancer (Yahoo! News)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• AP Exclusive: Google watches your movements, like it or not (Sacramento Bee)
• The Arid West Moves East, with Big Implications for Agriculture (NPR)
• Invasion of big, voracious lizards threatens U.S. South (Reuters)
• Facial recognition technology: The need for public regulation and corporate responsibility (Microsoft blog by Brad Smith, President, Microsoft)
• Designing the Death of a Plastic (New York Times)

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August 2, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• To Keep Women from Dying in Childbirth, Look to California (NPR)
• Dengue fever outbreak stopped by special mosquitoes (BBC)
• Heading May Be Riskier for Female Soccer Players Than Males (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TEHCNOLOGY

• 2017 Was One of the Hottest Years on Record (NPR)
• Apple shed $24 billion in market value in three days, but one chart points to recovery (CNBC)
• U.S. charges three Ukrainians in payment card hacking spree (Reuters)
• When the Weather Is Extreme, Is Climate Change to Blame? (NPR)
• The $2.5 trillion reason why we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid (Technology Review)

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June 26, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• FDA approves first cannabis-based drug (CNN)
• Higher vitamin D levels linked to lower colorectal cancer risk (Jewish World Review)
• Drinking Alcohol Can Raise Cancer Risk. How Much Is Too Much? (NPR)
• Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease  (NPR)
• Keystone Virus Makes First Known Jump from Mosquitoes to Humans  (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• A leading climate agency may lose its climate focus (New York Times)
• Koko the Gorilla Dies; Redrew the Lines of Animal-Human Communication (NPR)
• Adobe is using machine learning to make it easier to spot Photoshopped images (Verge)

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June 13, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Study shows troops at high risk for skin cancer (KPBS)
• Resistance exercise linked to reduced depression syndromes (Reuters)
• Premature birth test being trialed (BBC)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• AT&T wins court approval to buy Time Warner over Trump opposition (Reuters)
• A Facebook bug changed the privacy setting to public for 14 million users who thought they were making private posts (Washington Post)

• You’ll Soon Be Able to Manufacture Anything You Want and Governments Will Be Powerless to Stop It (Reason)

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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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April 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

• FDA 'blitz' aimed at reducing youths' use of Juul, other e-cigarettes (CNN)
• Marijuana-derived drug for epilepsy gets FDA committee recommendation (CNN)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Electrical defects cause Priuses to stall: Toyota may be bracing for a legal fight as safety worries grow (Los Angeles Times)
• Why are tens of thousands of Americans still driving around with explosive devices in their cars? (Washington Post)
• This Start-Up Says It Wants to Fight Poverty. A Food Stamp Giant Is Blocking It. (NY Times)
• AT&T and Verizon are under federal investigation for potential collusion (San Diego Union-Tribune)

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April 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

• Marijuana legalization could help offset opioid epidemic, studies find (CNN)
• Surprise! Medical Research a Big Winner in New Federal Budget (Healthline)
• New Human 'Organ' Was Hiding in Plain Sight (National Geographic)
• 'Nightmare bacteria' spreading across the U.S. (NBC News)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• The Taliban have gone high-tech. That poses a dilemma for the U.S. (NY Times)
• SpaceX launches 10 Iridium satellites from California (KPBS)
• Tesla: Car in fatal CA crash was on autopilot (10 News)

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March 21, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• U.S. healthcare ranked worst in developed world (Time Magazine)
• Macular degeneration: “I’ve been given my sight back” (BBC)
• `Game changer’ treatment for patients with Multiple Sclerosis (BBC)
• Are There Risks From Secondhand Marijuana Smoke? Early Science Says Yes (NPR)
• More evidence essential oils 'make male breasts develop' (BBC)
• Pathogens On A Plane: How To Stay Healthy In Flight (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Do you take Facebook quizzes? Cambridge Analytica mess shows our privacy is at risk (Mercury-News)
• Plan to save Monarch butterflies backfires (Science)
• ACLU asks in lawsuit: Why is the TSA searching digital devices on domestic flights? (Los Angeles Times)
• Facial Scanning Now Arriving At U.S. Airports (NPR)
• Facebook under pressure as U.S., EU urge probes of data practices (Reuters)
• Expedia's Orbitz says 880,000 payment cards hit in breach (Reuters)
• UCSD professor devises way to recycle lithium-ion batteries (San Diego Union-Tribune)

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February 27, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Deaths Linked to Anti-Anxiety Drugs Rise, But Fly Under the Radar (KPBS)
• WHO warns of soaring rates of measles in Europe (BBC)
• Twenty U.S. states sue federal government seeking end to Obamacare (Reuters)
• Serious eye diseases accurately diagnosed through artificial intelligence (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Cancer therapy poised for rapid advances, noted researcher says (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Can alcohol really help you live longer? Here’s what the research says (Time)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• What happens if earth gets 2 degrees Celsius warmer? (Popular Science)
• White nationalist Jared Taylor sues Twitter over ban (BBC)
• 'Big data' predictions spur detentions in China's Xinjiang: Human Rights Watch (Reuters)
• Facebook told to stop tracking in Belgium (BBC)
• .Primatologist and Author: Morality Wasn’t Invented By Religion (KPBS)
• Trunk show: Elephant genome study offers surprises (Reuters)

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February 7, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• A renewed push for single payer at California healthcare hearing (KPCC)
• Congress has quietly created a new health care crisis for 26 million Americans (VOX)
• Digital health tracking: preventive care or privacy invasion? (Harvard Health Publishing)

SCIENCE & TEHCNOLOGY

• Sprawling Maya network discovered under Guatemalan jungle (BBC)
• An aquarium accident may have given this crayfish DNA to take over the world (Science Magazine)
• Disturbing losses of protective ozone near Earth’s equator may be tied to short-lived chemicals (Science Magazine)
• U.S. shuts down cybercrime ring launched by Ukrainian (Reuters)

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January 24, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Cancer blood test ‘enormously exciting’ (BBC)
• Opioid commission member: out work is a sham (CNN)
• Trump administration plans to gut drug prevention office  (CBS)
• U.S. health agency revokes Obama-era Planned Parenthood protection (Reuters)
• Delaware sues opioid manufacturers, distributors over epidemic (Reuters)
• E-Cigarettes Likely Encourage Kids to Try Tobacco But May Help Adults Quit (NPR)
• My two-decade journey with cancer immunotherapy (Healthline)

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• Job creator or job killer? Trump angers solar installers with tariff on solar panels (Reuters)
• Why did two-thirds of these weird antelope suddenly drop dead? (The Atlantic)
• How Dangerous Is Misinformation on Facebook? (NPR)
• Rupert Murdoch: Facebook should pay for news (BBC)
• Facebook to use surveys to boost ‘trustworthy’ news (BBC)

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January 3, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Marijuana users risk schizophrenia, but the drug helps pain (NBC)
• FDA Takes Too Long to Recall Tainted Food, Federal Investigators Say (NPR)
• Why spending time outdoors could help your child's eyesight (BBC)
• World first for dog's broken leg (BBC)
• Is Pollution Causing Obesity and Asthma in Children? (Apple News)
• Flu Cases On The Rise In San Diego, Patients Pack Into Sharp Grossmont (KPBS)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

•  Apple apologizes after outcry over slowed iPhones (Reuters)
• Researchers Discover Two Major Flaws in the World’s Computers (New York Times)
• This should freak everyone out: the Arctic will never be frozen again (Mother Jones)
• 9 Ways You Can Use Your Devices for Advanced Scientific Research (Singularity Hub)
• Police arrest alleged 'Nigerian prince' email scammer in Louisiana (USA Today)

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December 13, 2017 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Babies' brains damaged by pollution, UNICEF says (BBC)
• Huntington’s breakthrough may stop disease (BBC)
• Health officials sound the alarm on Trump-led reversal of ban om risky pesticides (RawStory)
• Even Low-Dose Contraceptives Slightly Increase Breast Cancer Risk (NPR)
• Why A Pill That's 4 Cents in Tanzania Costs Up to $400 in the U.S. (NPR)
• Safer DNA editing method may fix human diseases, Salk scientists report (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Here's What It Looks Like When You Fry Your Eye in an Eclipse (NPR)
• Warning over eating raw dough due to E. coli risk in flour (BBC)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• 12 must-have products going viral in 2017 (Household Saving Tips)
• This Year, Consider Giving Presence Instead of Presents (NPR)
• Video of starving polar bear ‘rips your heart out of your chest’ (New York Times)
• In Your Face: China’s all-seeing state (BBC)
• Massive Black Hole Reveals When the First Stars Blinked On (NPR)
• Fusion breakthrough explained: What are quarks again? (CS Monitor)

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November 15, 2017 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• U.S. approves digital pill that tracks when patients take it (Reuters)
• Increased Hours Online Correlate With an Uptick in Teen Depression, Suicidal Thoughts (NPR)
• FDA Warns About Dangers of 'Natural' Opioid Kratom (NPR)
• Army to Provide Medical Care for Thousands of Veterans Who Were Test Subjects (NPR)
• Should healthcare be rationed for patients who smoke or are obese? (BBC)
• With Stricter Guidelines, Do You Have High Blood Pressure Now? (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Votes in 18 nations 'hacked' in last year (BBC)
• U.S. government shares technical details on North Korean hacking campaign (Reuters)
• About 15 percent of U.S. agencies found Kaspersky Lab software: official  (Reuters)
•  Vietnamese researcher shows iPhone X face ID 'hack'  (Reuters)
• Georgian Jars Hold 8,000-Year-Old Winemaking Clues (NPR)

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November 1, 2017 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Obamacare judge refuses to restore payments halted by Trump (Bloomberg News)
• Shop Around: Subsidies May Offset Your 2018 Health Insurance Price Hike (NPR)
• Glyphosate levels skyrocket in older Americans (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Breast cancer genetics revealed: 72 new mutations discovered in global study (CNN)
• Three SDSU Students Sick With Viral Meningitis (KPBS)
• Knitting 'knockers' for Kenyan breast cancer survivors (BBC)
• Stanford to examine Las Vegas shooters’ brain (KNSD 7)

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016 (BBC)
• Navy Seal killed while behind wheel of self-driving Tesla (Inside Edition)
• For bargain hunters, Amazon beats Walmart and Target (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Facebook, Google, Twitter asked to testify on Russian meddling (Reuters)
• Technologists: Public won't accept driverless cars unless they're more skilled than humans (SD Union-Tribune)
• Facebook's Advertising Tools Complicate Efforts to Stop Russian Interference (NPR)
• China bans foreign waste – but what will happen to the world’s recycling? (Hong Kong Free Press)

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