East County News Service

February 22, 2017 (San Diego’s East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• One Out of Four American Adults Have Suffered Hearing Loss (KPBS)
• Cancer genes hide outside chromosomes (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Autism detectable in brain long before symptoms appear (BBC)
• The Next Pandemic Could Be Dripping On Your Head (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Pollinating drones may give honeybees a hand (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• As 200 More Whales Are Stranded in New Zealand, Heroics Turn to Heartbreak (NPR)
• Don't Call It Wheat: An Environmentally Friendly Grain Takes Root (NPR)
• Researchers discover 60 new planets: Could you help find the next? (CS Monitor)
• To Help Curb Coral Reef Destruction, Hawaii Wants to Ban Chemical Sunscreens (CS Monitor)
• Microbes wake up from 10,000-year nap in cave crystals (CS Monitor)
• Unearthed essay on alien life reveals Churchill the scientist  (Reuters)

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February 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

• Air pollution may cause 21 percent of dementias worldwide, study suggests (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Trump wants to gut FDA regs. He needs a refresher course on Thalidomine. (Huffington Post)
• Most powerful HIV- attacking antibody yet has been constructed (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Drug distributors penalized for turning blind eye during opioid epidemic (NPR)
• An Early First Menstrual Period May Lead to Premature Menopause (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• How some retailers are tracking you as you walk down their aisles (Marketplace.org)
• Hackers launch major attack against PayPal users (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Privacy by design: How fashion combats surveillance (CS Monitor)
• The confusing, wild world of science under the Trump administration (CS Monitor)
• To catch a python: Florida hires Indian tribesmen to root out invasive snakes (CS Monitor)

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East County News Service

January 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

• A super cheap, generic alternative to the EpiPen just hit shelves in U.S. (Science Alert)
• Obamacare Plans Don't Always Include Top Cancer Centers (NPR)
• What An Obamacare Repeal Would Mean For Rural Hospitals (NPR)
• Investigators Link Insurer Cyber Breach To Foreign Nation (KPBS)
• Obesity-Linked Diagnoses On The Rise Among Kids And Teens (NPR)
• Cancer spread cut by 75% in tests (BBC)
• Hundreds of cats quarantined in New York City bird flu outbreak  (Reuters)
• Bug resistant to all antibiotics kills woman (BBC)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Iceberg the size of Delaware to break off from Antarctica (CNN)
• Taxi-sharing could end traffic jams, suggests MIT study (BBC)
• Norway to switch off FM radio in risky, unpopular shift to digital (Reuters)
• Why is Uber giving away traffic data? (CS Monitor)
• Devices sprout ears: What do Alexa and Siri mean for privacy? (CS Monitor)
• Netflix users targeted by email scam seeking credit card, account information (Fox 5 San Diego)
• Amazon to add more than 100,000 jobs in U.S. hiring spree Reuters)
• EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler Of Installing Emissions-Cheating Software (NPR)

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East County News Service

December 27, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Mumps Cases Rise in San Diego and Across the Nation (KPBS)
• New Ebola vaccine gives 100% protection (New York Times)
• Wins and Losses in Global Health in 2016 (NPR)
• Despite Pledges to Cut Back, Farms Are Still Using Antibiotics (NPR)
• Multiple sclerosis drug 'a landmark' (BBC)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Security risk on in-flight entertainment systems, say researchers (BBC)
• Privacy Advocates Claim Interactive Doll Spies On Children (NPR)
• Evernote opens satellite office in San Diego (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Facebook says government requests for account data rise 27 percent (Reuters)
• Pulse victims lawsuit: Did social media provide 'material support' for terrorism? (CS Monitor)
• No risk seen from Fukushima 'fingerprint' on US West Coast (CS Monitor)
• Cheetahs heading toward extinction as habitat crashes (BBC)
• Scientists amazed by iron 'jet stream' in Earth's molten core (CS Monitor)
• 'Klingon' newts and 'Ziggy Stardust' snakes among 150 new Mekong species (CS Monitor)
• Rumblings of Europe's supervolcano: Will the sleeping giant awaken? (CS Monitor)
• Long before Rudolph, these gigantic birds flew around the North Pole (CS Monitor)

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East County News Service

December 6, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’ (BBC)
• Accurate Valley Fever counts elude health officials (Bakersfield.com)
• Forecasting an epidemic:  how weather contributes to Valley Fever outbreaks (Voice of San Diego)
• Feeling Down? Scientists Say Cooking and Baking Could Help You Feel Better (Smithsonian
• Obstacle to 'three-person' baby therapy reported, along with solution (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• EPA's late changes to fracking study downplay risk of drinking water pollution (Marketplace)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Deforestation Of The Amazon Up 29 Percent From Last Year, Study Finds (NPR)
• Ford recalls 680,000 cars (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Streamlined FBI warrant approval raises concerns of 'mass hacking’ (CS Monitor)
• Will hackers make ATM machines spew money? (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Huge online crime network broken up (San Diego Union-Tribune)

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East County News Service

November 10, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Zika therapy 'works in the womb' (BBC)
• Drug-resistant TB rates in west Africa much higher than previously thought (Guardian)
• Food Pantries Try Nutritional Nudging to Encourage Good Food Choices (NPR)
• Middle school suicides double in past decade: What can be done? (CS Monitor)
• Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Report Side Effects (NPR)
• Laughing Gas Gives Women Another Option to Manage Labor Pain (NPR)
• Warning over non-lump breast cancers (BBC)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Rise in atmospheric CO2 slowed by green vegetation (BBC)
• Mount St. Helens surprise: There's no magma in the volcano's peak (Christian Science Monitor)
• Thousands of baby turtles released into Peruvian Amazon (BBC)
• San Diego Scientists Create Electronics Material That Can Heal Itself (KPBS)
• An Experiment Shows How Quickly the Internet of Things Can Be Hacked (NPR)
• Adobe Voco 'Photoshop-for-voice' causes concern (BBC)
• U.S., 35 states to boost electric vehicle charging stations (Reuters)
• Google Chrome is going to crack the whip on unprotected websites (Marketplace)
• Deutsche Telekom to launch drone defense system: report (Reuters)
• Smart motorways catch more than 1,000 speeding drivers a week (BBC)
• Polish minister accuses Facebook of censorship over right-wing symbol (Reuters)
• Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race (ProPublica)

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East County News Service

October 12, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Backyard Chickens Linked to Record High in Salmonella Infections, CDC Says (NPR)
• Immunotherapy cancer drug hailed as 'game changer' (BBC)
• Perdue Goes (Almost) Antibiotic-Free (NPR)
• Sons born with fertility treatment 'inherit problems' (BBC)
• Across The Globe, Our Diets Are Making Us Sicker, Report Finds (NPR)
• Animal TB threatens human health say vets and doctors (BBC)
• FDA Approves the First Automated Insulin System for Type 1 Diabetes (NPR)
• Does the contraceptive pill cause depression? (BBC)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Your home might be secretly carrying out cyberattacks (CS Monitor)
• Want double-strength silk? Feed the silkworms graphene.(CSMonitor)
• Hurricane Matthew: Why are birds flying in the eye of the storm? (CSMonitor)
• Rosetta Crashes into Comet, Bringing Historic Mission to End (NPR)
• Yahoo Allegedly Scanned Incoming Emails on Behalf of NSA, FBI (Reason)
• Facebook launches 'Secret' option for Messenger, joining encryption wave (CSMonitor)
• Phone Emergency Alerts Will Begin Including Links, Phone Numbers (NPR)
• Noto: Why Google wants one universal font to rule them all (CSMonitor)

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East County News Service

September 13, 2016 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• UN changes guidance about sex for travelers to Zika zones (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Could air pollution cause brain damage? (BBC)
• Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn (NPR)
• 10 things you need to know about the new U.S. chemicals law (TruthOut)
• Lobbyists for EpiPen Maker Included Former Clinton and McConnell Aides (Reason)
•  Drop in Teen Pregnancies Is Due to More Contraceptives, Not Less Sex (NPR)
• TB kills three people every minute – the world must wake up to this pandemic  (Guardian)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• How to hack an election in 7 minutes (Politico)
• EPA dodges responsibility on ethanol (Denver Post)
•  Scientist discover a second Great Barrier Reef behind the first (CS Monitor)
• How the tides could fuel a greener future (+video) (CS Monitor)
• FAA Expects 600,000 Commercial Drones in The Air Within a Year (NPR)
• Cyber Bombs Reshape U.S. Battle Against Terrorism (NPR)

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August 10, 2016 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Zika linked to baby joint deformities (BBC)
• A Study Takes the Globe's Blood Pressure and Finds a Dramatic Rise (NPR)
• Is medical marijuana the future for breast cancer therapy?  (CS World)
• Most Americans support late-term abortion in cases of Zika-linked birth defects (Huffington Post)
• Hacking nerves can control disease (BBC)
• What happens to developmentally disabled as parents age, die? (PBS)
• Young Inventors Work On Secret Proteins to Thwart Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (NPR)
• FDA bans e-cigarette sales to minors: why is it cracking down now? (Christian Science Monitor)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• How to deal with toxic waste buried in Greenland’s rapidly melting ice caps (Christian Science Monitor)
• Facebook to suppress clickbait messages (BBC)
• Tesla unveils a battery to power your home, completely off grid (Minds.com)

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June 23, 2016 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH & SCIENCE

• Antibiotic-resistant bacteria give urgent warning (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Would it be wrong to eradicate mosquitoes? (BBC)
• Stent 'may help bowel cancer treatment'
• Jimmy Carter may soon get his 90th birthday wish: no more Guinea worm (NPR)
• News In Numbers: AIDS Remains A Stubborn Foe In San Diego County (KPBS)
• Scientists turn CO2 to stone in just two years: a solution for climate change? (+video) (CS Monitor)
• Bionic leaf converts energy from our sun better than nature does (CS Monitor)
• King Tut: a ruler swathed in mystery also wielded a cosmic dagger (CS Monitor)
• Researchers find 39 unreported sources of major pollution: NASA (Reuters)
•  Tortoise injured in a forest fire gets a 3D-printed shell (CS Monitor)
• VIDEO: Can baking soda save the world? (BBC)
• This Futuristic "Straddling Bus” Can Drive Itself Over Cars (IFL Science)
• Can asteroids be turned into self-driving spaceships? (CS Monitor)
• Feds: Drought Kills 66M Trees In Sierra Nevada (KPBS)
• Warmer winters play important role in EU emissions drop (BBC)
• Diesels more polluting below 18C, research suggests (BBC)
• New crop varieties 'can't keep up with global warming' (BBC)
• Dead Sea drying (BBC
  
   

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May 24, 2016 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Zika proved to cause brain defects in mice, UCSD/Brazilian study shows (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• British researchers may just have discovered cure for multiple sclerosis (Daily Records)
• The lingering health effects of Agent Orange (Healthline, by Jamie Reno)
• Despite $10B 'Fix,' Veterans Are Waiting Even Longer To See Doctors (NPR)
• Suddenly Paralyzed, 2 Men Struggle To Recover From Guillain-Barre(NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• VIDEO: How a smartphone could help spot disease (BBC)
• Two undergrads invent gloves that translate sign language into speech(CS Monitor)
• Doctors explain how hiking actually changes our brains (Collective Evolution)
• What’s a carbon farmer? How ranchers are using dirt to tackle climate change. (CSMonitor)
• 'Smart leg' makes engineering prize list (BBC)
• Secret Harvard meeting on synthetic human genomes incites ethics debate (Jewish World Review)

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May 4, 2016 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• What's Good For The Heart Is Good For The Brain (NPR)
• Critical Drugs For Hospital ERs Remain In Short Supply (NPR)
• Speedy eye-tracking device seeks to detect concussions  (Reuters)
• A Concussion Can Lead To Sleep Problems That Last For Years (NPR)
• Ruling May Help Patients Keep More Of The Winnings When They Sue (NPR)
• Puerto Rico reports 1st US Zika-related death amid outbreak (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• The Full-Fat Paradox: Dairy Fat Linked To Lower Diabetes Risk (NPR)
• Can An Online Game Help Create A Better Test For Tuberculosis?(NPR)
• New study uses Fitbit to test if weight loss can prevent breast cancer recurrence (Business Wire Health Spot)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Solar powered plane successfully crosses Pacific Ocean, lands in California (ABC)
• A Researcher Just Accidentally Developed A Battery That Could Last A Lifetime (IFL Science)
• How secure is your data? Take our quiz and find out (CS Monitor)
• Mitsubishi Says It Tricked Fuel Mileage Tests On Some Cars (NPR)
• Pop went the weasel and down went the Large Hadron Collider (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Massive secret lake and canyons found deep beneath Antarctic ice (CS Monitor)
• Half of Western European men descended from one Bronze Age ‘king’(Telegraph)
• How you can help penguins by knitting sweaters for them (CS Monitor)
• China-made drone to use AI to track, film people (Malaya Chronicles)
• Busted? 'Textalyzer' device could detect texting and driving (CS Monitor)
• SpaceX undercut ULA rocket launch pricing by 40 percent: U.S. Air Force (Reuters)

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April 9, 2016 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• WHO: Zika causes microcephaly and Guillain Barre syndrome(CNN)
• Facing Zika fears: Raising kids with microcephaly
• Amid sweeping clinic closures, FDA loosens reins on abortion pill (CS Monitor)
• Sterile Box Is Solar-Powered To Make Surgeries Safer In Remote Areas (Ubergizmo)
• Bat disease jumps to US west coast (BBC)
• Five things to know about colorectal cancer (Miami Herald)
• Could a low-risk surgery help your chronic heartburn? (Salon Republic)
• Only One Country Offers Universal Health Care To All Migrants (NPR)
• 'Cancer gene' twice as likely to be defective in children with autism (ScienceDaily)
• Multiple Reasons Attributed To Lower Ear Infection Rates In Babies
• New No-Surgery Weight Loss Procedure Shows Promise (NBC News)
• How can red wine help the gut microbiome to prevent heart disease? (Medical News Today)
• The rate of diabetes has more than doubled in Africa and no one is ready for it (Quartz)
• Sleep Deprived: We're Recharging Our Phones, But Not Ourselves (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Millions at risk of manmade quakes. How can fracking states lessen tremors? (CS Monitor)
• Saving Half the Planet for Nature Isn't As Crazy As It Seems (National Geographic)
• Why Whole Foods Wants A Slower-Growing Chicken  (NPR)
• Artificial intelligence steals money from banking customers (Science Magazine)
• Conservation communities grow in popularity (USA Today)
• Why China won’t listen to Western scientists about genetically modifying the human embryo (QZ)
• Scientists may have discovered what caused these mysterious giant holes in Siberia  (Business Insider)

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March 23, 2016 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Cuba’s had a lung cancer vaccine for years, and now it’s coming to the U.S. (Huffington Post)
• The Poignant Cry Of Babies With Birth Defects Linked to Zika (NPR)
• Big pharmacies are dismantling the industry that keeps US drug costs even sort-of under control (Quartz)
• The Gendered Brain (Slate)
•  Here's What Food Grown Near Chernobyl Is Like, 30 Years After The Nuclear Disaster (IFL Science)
• How Gut Bacteria Are Shaking Up Cancer Research (Bloomberg)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Huge Underwater Methane Craters Discovered In The Arctic (IFL Science)
• CO2 levels spiked as world leaders negotiated historic climate deal (CS Monitor)
• WATCH: Shadow Of The Moon Crosses Earth During Solar Eclipse (NPR)
• Scientists discover plastic-loving bacteria in recycling plant (CS Monitor)
• Tree planting 'can reduce flooding'(BBC)
• These tiny birds can fly over 1,000 miles – nonstop (CS Monitor)
• Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N.S.A. Intercepts (New York Times)
• Skype co-founder launches ultra-private messaging, with video (Reuters)
• Nevada Solar Power Business Struggles To Keep The Lights On (NPR)

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March 4, 2016 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Major insight into killer pancreatic cancer (BBC)
• Cancer-causing HPV plummeted in teens since vaccine, study finds (CNN)
• Strokes On The Rise Among Younger Adults (NPR)
• Cancer Trials At UCSD Aim To Use Body's Immune System (City News Service)
• More Women Are Having Mastectomies And Going Home The Same Day (NPR)
• Air Pollution Heightens Risk of Obesity and Diabetes (TIME)
• Gay man taking daily HIV prevention pills contracts resistant strain of the virus - in … Daily Mail
• Should Sprouts Come With A Warning Label? (NPR)
• Woman's blindness apparently reversed by stem cell treatment (Baltimore Sun)
• One cuppa a day could cut heart risk: Tea reduces likelihood of stroke or cardiac arrest (Daily Mail)
• Sleep Munchies: Why It's Harder To Resist Snacks When We're Tired (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• New low-power Wi-Fi could save batteries throughout your house (CS Monitor)
• VIDEO: Rise in butterfly numbers ‘inspirational’ (BBC)
• Using Billboards, Company Will Collect Personal Information To Help Advertisers (NPR)
• U.S. Navy Brings Back Navigation By The Stars For Officers (NPR)
• Smart rats sniffing out Cambodia's vast mine fields (AP)
• Chinese-owned brand Volvo is recalling 59,000 cars
• U.N. agency bans lithium-ion batteries on passenger aircraft (Reuters)
• In An Unusual Move, The EPA Tries To Pull Pesticide From Market (NPR)
• Is Nutritious Food In Peril, Along With Pollinators? (NPR)
• MIT team makes solar cells as light and thin as soap bubbles (CS Monitor)
• Why do people blindly trust robot rescuers, even when they're wrong? (CS Monitor)

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