HEALTH AND SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

May 16, 2013 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights brings you cutting edge news each week that could impact your health and our future.

• New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies (NPR)
• A powerful use for spoiled food (Los Angeles Times)
• Why wind farms kill eagles with federal impunity (Christian Science Monitor)
• Is It Safe To Use Compost Made From Treated Human Waste? (NPR)
• Fears grow over deadly new virus (BBC news)
• Agent Orange Linked To Lethal Prostate Cancer In Veterans (KPBS)
• Ice wave comes ashore in Minnesota (Christian Science Monitor)

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New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies (NPR)

This is a big moment for the deaf, many of whom haven't been to the movies in a long time. The new glasses display closed captions just for the wearer, and they're headed for 6,000 theaters across the country.

A powerful use for spoiled food (Los Angeles Times)

Kroger Co.'s anaerobic digester in Compton takes unsold food from Ralph's and Food 4 Less and converts it into 13 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year.

Why wind farms kill eagles with federal impunity (Christian Science Monitor)

(CS Monitor) -- Oil companies are prosecuted when a bird drowns in a waste pit. But the Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind-energy company for similar protected bird deaths. An estimated 573,000 birds are killed by US wind farms each year.

Is It Safe To Use Compost Made From Treated Human Waste? (NPR)

About 50 percent of the biosolids produced in the U.S. are returned to farmland through a process that is heavily regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency. Even so, some people – including the Sierra Club — remain skeptical of the use of this waste product in food production. They worry that heavy metals, pathogens or pharmaceuticals might survive the treatment process and contaminate crops.

Fears grow over deadly new virus (BBC news)

The World Health Organization warns that it appears "increasingly" likely that the new coronavirus can be passed between people in close contact.

Agent Orange Linked To Lethal Prostate Cancer In Veterans (KPBS)

New research links Agent Orange exposure to a lethal, aggressive form of prostate cancer in Vietnam War veterans.

Ice wave comes ashore in Minnesota (Christian Science Monitor)

Ice wave comes ashore: High winds on a Minnesota lake have pushed a wave of ice right into people's front yards.