HEALTH AND SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

October 30, 2019 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Juul Shipped at Least a Million Contaminated Pods, New Lawsuit Says (Buzzfeed)
• Congress, Wary of Tainted Chinese Drugs, is Baffled by Lack of Oversight (Newsweek)
• Brain illness spread by ticks has reached the UK (BBC)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Decades of detailed weather reports pulled from old sailor's logs (National Geographic)
• Twitter to ban all political advertising (BBC)

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HEALTH

Juul Shipped at Least a Million Contaminated Pods, New Lawsuit Says (Buzzfeed News)

A former Juul executive is alleging in a lawsuit that the fast-growing startup shipped out 1 million contaminated e-cigarette pods earlier this year — but did not tell customers or issue a recall. 

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday by Siddharth Breja, a former senior vice president… 

Congress, Wary of Tainted Chinese Drugs, is Baffled by Lack of Oversight (Newsweek)

Following major recalls of Chinese-manufactured medication that contained carcinogenic ingredients, lawmakers expressed their alarm, and sometimes disbelief, at the FDA's inability to regulate foreign suppliers at a Tuesday hearing.

Brain illness spread by ticks has reached the UK (BBC)

Public Health England (PHE) says it has confirmed cases of tick-borne encephalitis virus in ticks from two parts of England - Thetford Forest and an area on the Hampshire-Dorset border… Tick-borne encephalitis virus is already circulating in mainland Europe and Scandinavia, as well as Asia.

SCIENCE AND TECH

Decades of detailed weather reports pulled from old sailor's logs (National Geographic)

A database created in part from 19th-century maritime records sharpens our view of climate change 

Twitter to ban all political advertising (BBC)

Twitter is to ban all political advertising worldwide, saying that the reach of such messages "should be earned, not bought".  "While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics," company CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted. Social media rival Facebook recently ruled out a ban on political ads.