October 10, 2017 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Even deadlier form of fentanyl reaches San Diego County (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• School vaccinations 'cut cervical cancer alerts by 41%' (BBC)
• Brain's Link to Immune System Might Help Explain Alzheimer's (NPR)
• Why 'Plague Season' is a Big Worry in Madagascar This Year (NPR)
• Stomach acid blockers promote liver disease, study finds (San Diego Union-Tribune)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Google closer to using balloons for telecom in Puerto Rico (Wired)
• Can Elon Musk fix Puerto Rico’s broken power grid? (CNN Money)
• Consumer alert: Beware of Netflix phishing scam (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Once Its AIM Was True, But Soon AOL's Instant Messenger Will Be No More (NPR)
• Butterfly swarm shows up on Denver radar system (BBC)
• Light Pollution Can Impact Nocturnal Bird Migration (NPR)
• 'Sooty birds' reveal hidden US air pollution (BBC)

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September 27, 2017 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• City, county officials blame each other for growing hepatitis A outbreak (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Tijuana Sewage Is Not Fueling the Hep A Outbreak, But the San Diego River Might Be (Voice of San Diego)
• By the numbers: San Diego’s hepatitis outbreak (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• First paralyzed human regains his upper body movement after treatment with stem cells (Ideapod)
• What will be Hurricane Maria's impact on Puerto Rico's drug industry? (Marketplace)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Brazil Declares it Won't Abolish Massive Reserve in the Amazon After All (NPR)
• Big Antarctic iceberg edges out to sea (BBC)
• What happens if police officer forces you to unlock your iPhone X with your face? (Jewish World Review)
• Equifax CEO steps down after data breach; he'll still get $18-million pension (San Diego Union-Tribune)

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September 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

• Hepatitis A Outbreak Declared Emergency in San Diego County (Patch)
• HIV Survivors Give Their 'Last Gift' in a New San Diego Study (KPBS)
• Drinks industry distorts alcohol cancer risk: scientists (Reuters)
• Security warning over hospital syringe pumps (BBC)
• So Your Kitchen Sponge is a Bacteria Hotbed. Here's What to Do (NPR)
• R&D Costs for Cancer Drugs Are Likely Much Less Than Industry Claims, Study Finds (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election (Washington Post)
• Hurricane Irma Blasts into the Record Books with Lasting Intensity (NPR)
• 4 Things You Should Do About the Equifax Hack (New York Times)
• Clothes that grow with your child win Dyson prize (BBC)
• Tesla remotely expanded car batteries near Irma’s path, questions linger (NPR)
• 'No fire risk' with new lithium batteries (BBC)
• How Tech Giants Use Their Power to Advance Corporate Interests (NPR)
• 'Quakeland' Warns the U.S. is Unprepared for the Next Big Quake (KPBS)

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August 29, 2017 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Thyroid cancer rates triple, and scientists look for cause (Live Science)
• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (Atlantic)
• FDA Seizes Risky Smallpox Vaccine from San Diego Stem Cell Co. (KPBS)
• Health officials advise older people to walk faster (BBC)
• The Battle Over Oil and Gas Development in Colorado (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Crowdfunding disaster: Silicon Valley start-up takes customers’ money, shuts down (San Jose Mercury News)
• AI threatens humanity (Washington Times)
• Unlikely Allies Join Fight to Protect Free Speech on the Internet (NPR)
• Los Angeles Tests Whether Lighter Color Streets Will Lower Temperature (NPR)
• Cars with advanced safety systems yielding lower crash rates (CS Monitor)

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August 16, 2017 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Trump declares opioid pain drugs national emergency (BBC)
• End of U.S. payments to health insurers would cause premiums to rise: CBO (Reuters)
• Vitamin B-3 may prevent miscarriages and birth defects, study says (BBC)
• Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk (Reuters)
• San Diego Scientists Tweak Gene Editing Tool to Target RNA (KPBS)
• UCSD: Desert plant could treat giardia and ‘brain-eating’ amoeba infections (Times of San Diego)
• Surgery waiting numbers highest in decade, says NHS England (BBC)
• 'Fat but fit' still risk heart disease (BBC)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

•  Scripps Research Institute ranked first worldwide in science (SD Union-Tribune)
• U.S. court rejects Obama-era plan to eliminate some potent planet warming chemicals Science)
• Forget Tough Passwords: New Guidelines Make It Simple (NPR)
• First ‘winged’ mammals flew over dinosaurs (BBC)
• Antarctica home to considerably more volcanoes than previously thought (Verge)
• Who owns the seeds bought by farmers and gardeners? (Marketplace)
• U.S. firm reveals gun-toting drone that can aim and fire in mid-air (BBC)
• Chinese quantum satellite sends 'unbreakable' code (Reuters)

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August 2, 2017 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Senate panel advances measures to advance medical marijuana (The Hill)
• Obamacare repeal is dead for now. What could that mean for you?  (USA Today)
• Study: CTE Found in Nearly All Donated NFL Player Brains (NPR)
• Sperm count drop 'could make humans extinct' (BBC)
• Controversial milestone: Scientists genetically modify human embryos for first time, reports say (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• There's Great News — And Grim News — in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS (NPR)
• 'Mind-blowing' cows hold clue to beating HIV (BBC)
• Injections ‘next revolution’ in HIV - study (BBC)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• How Western spyware is used to shut down Arab rights activists (CS Monitor)
• Fukushima disaster: Robot finds possible melted nuclear fuel (BBC)
• Scientists dim sunlight, suck up carbon dioxide to cool planet (Reuters)
• Is it a Good Idea to Pay Villagers Not to Chop Down Trees? (NPR)
• Revolutionary gene drive works in lab, but will it succeed in the wild? (SDUT)
• Heartland Institute’s `Six reasons to be a climate-change skeptic’ are six demonstrable falsehoods (Forbes)
• Apple 'pulls 60 VPNs from China App Store' (BBC)
• Putin bans VPNs in web browsing crackdown (BBC)
• It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say researchers (BBC)
• Snopes’ trouble is real news (KPBS)
• How, and Why, Some Farmers Are Bringing Livestock Back to Prairie (NPR)

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July 11, 2017 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• What the brain's wiring looks like (BBC)
• Suspected Cholera Cases Pass 300,000 In Yemen, Red Cross Says (NPR)
• First vaccine shows gonorrhoea protection (BBC)
• Oral sex spreading unstoppable bacteria (BBC)
• Credit Agencies to Ease Up on Medical Debt Reporting (NPR)
• 111 people died under California’s new right-to-die law (CNN)
• Parkinson’s disease is partly an autoimmune disease, Columbia study finds (Knowridge.com)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Internet Companies Plan Online Campaign to Keep Net Neutrality Rules (NPR)
• The Uninhabitable Earth:  Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. (New York Magazine)
• Microsoft Courts Rural America, And Politicians, With High-Speed Internet (NPR)
• Hot, Dry Madrid Aims for a Cooler, Greener Future (NPR)
• Earth faces "biological annihilation" in sixth mass extinction, scientists warn (CBS)
• First teleportation to low-Earth orbit (BBC)
• 3D-printed structures change shape when heated (BBC)
• Elephant tourism is ‘fueling cruelty’ (BBC)

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June 28, 2017 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Three more GOP Senators announce opposition to healthcare bill (The Hill)
• New study links recreational marijuana to increase in car crashes (CS Monitor)
• Cardiologist: Breast implants skew heart attack test (BBC)
• Ebola virus burial teams may have 'saved thousands of lives' (BBC)
• Skin patches may be the future of flu vaccines, study suggests (CNN)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Google faces years of EU oversight on top of record antitrust fine (Reuters)
• Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Are Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace  (Reason)
• Facial Recognition May Boost Airport Security but Raises Privacy Worries (NPR)
• Jellied sea creatures confound scientists, fishermen on U.S. Pacific Coast (Reuters)
• Many firms hit by global cyber-attacks (BBC)
• Mark Zuckerberg explains why he just changed Facebook’s mission (CNN)
• Moth Eyes Inspire Glare-Resistant Coating for Cellphone Screens (NPR)
• Our Sun Probably Grew Up with a Sibling (Smithsonian)

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June 14, 2017 (San Diego’s East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Insurance policy: How an industry shifted from protecting patients to seeking profit (Stanford Medicine)
• Yemen cholera cases pass 100,000 in unprecedented epidemic (BBC)
• America’s health inequality problem (The Atlantic)
• Babies Sleep Better in Their Own Rooms After 4 Months, Study Finds (NPR)
• Some Small Tumors in Breasts May Not Be So Bad After All (NPR)
• A Dad Takes His Son to the Doctor and Discovers Fear of Vaccines (NPR)

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• Supreme Court rules cell phones cannot be searched without a warrant (MSNBC)
• Who's your mummy? Genetic secrets of ancient Egypt unwrapped  (Reuters)
• Kiwis take front line in global war against invasive species (CS Monitor)
• When Trump blocks someone on Twitter does that violate the First Amendment?(10 News)
• Covfefe Act would make social media a presidential record (The Hill)
• Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Unveils Stratolaunch, the World's Largest Plane (CNet Traveler)

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May 31, 2017 (San Diego’s East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Study finds 73% of sunscreens don’t even work – how to find one that does (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
• Autism symptoms of five boys increase improve in early trial of century-old drug (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Parents discuss how autistic children improved after receiving experimental drug (SDUT)
• Zika detected in India for first time (Associated Press)
• Fitness trackers poor at measuring calories burned (BBC)
• Thousands of known bugs found in pacemaker codes (BBC)
• Trump's Medicaid 'Cuts' Actually Increase Federal Spending (Reason)
• Zika struck Florida up to 40 times before detection (San Diego Union-Tribune)

SCIENCE & TECH

• Mark Zuckerberg’s great American road trip (New York Times)
• Google plans to track credit card spending (BBC)
• NASA’s Jupiter mission reveals the ‘brand new and unexpected’ (New York Times)

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May 18, 2017 (San Diego’s East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• The painful truth about teeth (Washington Post)
• Heroin Epidemic Is Driving a Spike in Hepatitis C Cases, CDC Says (NPR)
• Plant chemicals hope for 'alternative contraceptives' (BBC)
• How to Do a Really Good Job Washing Your Hands (NPR)
• Doctors Who Are Moms Say They Face Discrimination at Work (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Global ‘Wana’ Ransomware Outbreak Earned Perpetrators $26,000 So Far (Krebs)
• Iguana chase wins Bafta for Planet Earth II (BBC)
• Tesla begins taking orders for its solar roof (CNN)
• Could these mini reactors replicate the power of the Sun? (BBC)
• It might be time to say goodbye to the MP3 - so let's look back at its life (BBC)

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May 3, 2017 (San Diego’s East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Lower risk of heart attack in those with blood type O, study finds (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Some antibiotics significantly increase risk of miscarriages, big study finds (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• A Lazarus Patient and the Limits of a Lifesaving Stroke Procedure (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• SpaceX rocket lifts off on first launch for U.S. military (Reuters) 
• German project looks to home photovoltaic systems to help grid (Reuters)
• NSA collected Americans' phone records despite law change: report (Reuters)

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April 21, 2017 (San Diego’s East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Report Shows Spike in San Diego County Babies Born with Drugs in Their Systems (KPBS)
• Lead Impacted Hundreds of San Diego Kids Even Before the Latest Scare (Voice of San Diego)
• About half of physicians support single-payer healthcare system, LinkedIn survey says (Healthcare Finance)
• What Doesn't Kill You Can Maim: Unexpected Injuries from Opioids (NPR)
• What Happens to a Congressman's Health Insurance if Obamacare Goes Down? (NPR)

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• How a melting Arctic changes everything (Bloomberg)
• The fingerprint sensor on your smartphone might not be foolproof (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• ‘Star Wars’-style desert moisture farming: New tech brings it a step closer (CS Monitor)
• Electric Concrete at Airports Could Save Us All from Winter Flight Delays (Travel and Leisure)

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East County News Service

March 29, 2017 (San Diego’s East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Going under the knife, with eyes and ears wide open (New York Times)
• Class of antibiotics gets stronger warning due to dangerous side effects (CBS)
• Measles outbreak across Europe (BBC)
• March Madness Vasectomies Encourage Guys to Take One for the Team (NPR)
• The U.S. Can't Really Know if Farmers are Cutting Back on Antibiotics, GAO Says (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Spinach Leaf Transformed into Beating Human Heart Tissue (National Geographic)
• I am an arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations.(The Guardian)
• Uber suspends self-driving car program after Arizona crash (Reuters)
• Tesla to take orders for solar roof tiles starting April (Reuters)
• British kid finds NASA mistake: when too many cooks don't spoil anything (CS Monitor)
• How a massive New Zealand earthquake broke the rules (CS Monitor)
• Growing fabric (Video: Bright Vibes)

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East County News Service

March 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

• House Republicans would let employers demand genetic test results (Yahoo News)
• Why a House bill wants workers' genetic information (CS Monitor)
• Deadly fungus infection that doctors have been fearing new reported in U.S. (Washington Post)
• On the heels of Zika comes its deadlier relative, yellow fever, experts warn (ArsTechnica)
• Un-Sweetened: How a Maryland County Cut Soda Sales Without a Soda Tax (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Volkswagen Pleads Guilty in U.S. Emissions-Cheating Scandal (Bloomberg)
• Big data unites the study of stars with cancer research (BBC)
• Can giant Tesla batteries solve South Australia's energy woes? (CS Monitor)

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