May 23, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• The FDA approved a drug that treats opioid addiction that isn’t addictive itself (Popular Science)
• Lost mothers: maternal mortality in the U.S. (NPR)
• Did Leaded Gasoline Contribute to the U.S. Baby Bust?  (Reason)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Circuit breaker still in use despite safety concerns (Jewish World Review)
• DNA Data From 100 Crime Scenes Has Been Uploaded To A Genealogy Website — Just Like The Golden State Killer
• NASA looks to send a small nuclear reactor to the moon and Mars  (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Uber ends Arizona self-driving program following fatality (Reuters)
• Why privacy settings can't keep your location secret  (Marketplace)
• Security advocates challenge facial recognition in policing  (CS Monitor)

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April 19, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Romaine lettuce caused an ongoing e-coli outbreak, CDC says (Time Magazine)
• UC San Diego Bio-Engineers Develop Wearable Device To Monitor Stomach Activity (KPBS)
• Medicare Advisers Recommend Payment Cuts To Many Free-Standing ERs (NPR)

 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Officials warn Russian hackers targeting U.S. routers (CBS)
• Pentagon announces 2000% increase in Russian trolls since Friday (Axios)
• Those stickers warning that repairs will void your warranty are nonsense, FTC says (Washington Post)
• The oceans’ circulation hasn’t been this sluggish in 1,000 years. That’s bad news. (Washington Post)
• Thousands of apps in Google Play Store may be illegally tracking children, study finds (Washington Post )
• More than 100 parts for NASA's Orion capsule to be 3D printed  (Reuters)

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February 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

• Germs in airplane cabins are bad, but it's even worse at the airport terminal (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Middle age is not too late to increase cardiac fitness, studies show (Jewish World Review)
• U.S. flu outbreak worsens; hospitalizations highest in nearly a decade: CDC (Reuters)
• Where do you go when you die?  The increasing signs that human consciousness remains after death   (Newsweek)
• Blue Dye Kills Malaria Parasites — But There Is One Catch (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Count marks sharp drop in Monarch butterflies wintering in California (Reuters)
• Robots take to the slopes on sidelines of Winter Games (Reuters)
• Second asteroid in a week to pass close to Earth on Friday (Reuters)  
• Cheddar Man: DNA shows early Briton had dark skin (BBC)
• Artificial intelligence plays budding role in courtroom bail decisions (CS Monitor)
• Be My Eyes - new app for the blind (Reason)
• 50 Top Women in STEM (TheBestSchools.org)
• Seattle finds Facebook in violation of city campaign finance law (Reuters)
• Dry, warm start to winter saps Rocky Mountain snowpack (KPBS)

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December 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

• Breakthroughs put diseases on the back foot (BBC)
• 'Longest-frozen' embryo born 24 years on (BBC)
• US lifts ban on lethal virus experiments despite security risks (BBC)

 SCIENCE AND TECH

• Why California is phasing out these light bulbs January 1 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Harvard student helps crack mystery of Inca Code (Boston Globe)
• SpaceX rocket launch lights up California sky, freaks out some residents (NPR)
• SpaceX and Irridium launching satellites that could someday revolutionize international space travel (CNBC)
• Edward Snowden made an app to protect your laptop (The Verge)
• Russian hacking groups, including Fancy Bear, targeted journalists around the world (CS Monitor)
• Library Of Congress Will No Longer Archive Every Tweet (NPR)
• Fungal disease poses global threat to snakes (BBC)
• As Corals Wither Around The World, Scientists Try IVF (NPR)
  
   

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July 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

• Lost mothers: An estimated 700 to 900 women in the U.S. died of pregnancy-related causes in 2016. We have identified 126 of them so far. (Pro Publica)
• Baby boomers turn to stem cells for help with painful joints (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Novel leukemia treatment could be first U.S. gene therapy (ABC)
• Dental lobby prevails: grieving parents shelve `Caleb’s law’ again (Times of San Diego)
• Could Charlie Gard’s case happen in the United States? (CNN)
• SDSU Study Reveals Hookah Chemical Linked To Cancer, Heart Disease (KPBS)
• 'Living Drug' That Fights Cancer By Harnessing The Immune System Clears Key Hurdle
• Her newborn kept getting sick because she was ingesting placenta, CDC says (Jewish World Review)
• Artificial sweeteners linked to weight gain over time, review of studies says (ABC)
• Seeking Online Medical Advice? Google's Top Results Aren't Always On Target (NPR)
• NHS ranked 'number one' health system (BBC)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• High speed Hyperloop ready for key test in Nevada (Reuters)
• Jupiter’s great red spot (CBS)
• FBI warns parents of privacy risks associated with internet-connected toys  (Reuters)
• Honda recalls more than 1M cars over battery fires (10 News)
• China just switched on the world's largest floating solar power plant (WeForum)
• Food Evolution: The GMO debate continues (Cosmos)

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November 1, 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 shrinks mice testicles, damaging fertility (CNN)
• Exclusive: EpiPen price hikes add millions to Pentagon costs(Reuters)
• An Alternative To The EpiPen Is Coming Back To Drugstores (NPR)
• A hormone injection for men has been shown to be 96% effective as contraception.(BBC)
• Can Poverty Lead To Mental Illness? (NPR)
• 'Super-parenting' improves children's autism (BBC)\   

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Report Declares Global Wildlife Populations Are Plunging. But It's Complicated(NPR)
• China's Xiongmai to recall up to 10,000 webcams after U.S. hack (Reuters)
• It Ain't Me, Babe: Researchers Find Flaws In Police Facial Recognition Technology(NPR)
• Apple finds security flaw in its operating system (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• NASA's New 'Intruder Alert' System Spots An Incoming Asteroid (NPR)
• FCC Vote Means Internet Providers Need Permission To Share Your Data (NPR)
• Flaws in connected cameras, recorders broader than bad passwords(CS Monitor)
• Nations Agree To Establish World's Largest Marine Reserve In Antarctica (NPR)
• Sweden bans cameras on drones(BBC)

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January 14, 2016 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Lack Of Deep Sleep May Set The Stage For Alzheimer's (NPR)
•  We're Thinking About ADHD All Wrong, Says A Top Pediatrician (NPR)
•  E-cigs damage DNA in lab study (U-T)
•  Study links e-cigarettes to incurable disease called 'Popcorn Lung’ (AOL)
•  Electronic Toys May Hinder Baby Language Development  (NPR)
•  Preventing dementia without drugs? (San Diego Union-Tribune)
•  New Dietary Guidelines Call For Limits On Sugar, Red Meat NPR
•  Stinging Report On Pandemics Makes Louis Pasteur Look Like A Prophet  (NPR)
•  Optimistic results for Phase ALS treatment at Jerusalem hospital (JPost)
•  Comparing private vs. public expansion of healthcare coverage (APM Marketplace)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

•  Plans for underwater  ‘oceanscraper’ revealed (CNN)
•  Time Warner Cable says up to 320,000 customers' data may have been stolen (Reuters)
•  What GM's $500 million Lyft investment means for the future of cars (USA)
•  Meet the world’s smallest camera-equipped drone (Engadget)
• Agriculture is big threat to water quality. These farmers are doing something (CS Monitor)
•  Spotify Faces Class Action For Copyright Infringement (NPR)

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December 22, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Department Of Veterans Affairs To Pay For Robotic Legs (NPR)
• Be Kind, Unwind: How Helping Others Can Help Keep Stress In Check (NPR)
• Learning Soft Skills In Childhood Can Prevent Harder Problems Later (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• SpaceX successfully lands rocket after launch (New York Times)
• Should driverless vehicles break the law to increase safety? (CS Monitor)
• Privacy Advocates Sound Alarm On Cybersecurity Provision In Spending Bill (NPR)
• Why are Earth's lakes heating up so quickly? (CS Monitor)
  

December 8, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Specialty Drugs Can Prove Expensive Even With Medicare Coverage (NPR)
• False Alarm Mammograms May Still Signal Higher Breast Cancer Risk (NPR)
• Court rejects Sequenom bid to restore prenatal DNA test patent (Reuters)
• Too Much TV And Chill Could Reduce Brain Power Over Time (NPR)
• Guidelines Give A Boost To Diabetes Screening For Overweight Adults (NPR)
• Dating apps prove factor in HIV rise (BBC)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• EPA tries to thread the biofuel needle (Marketplace)
• In massive stranding, 337 whales beached on Chilean coast (AP)
• Comcast data caps make life for deaf difficult (Marketplace)
• 5 Things To Know: Net Neutrality Is Back In Court  (NPR)
• Migratory birds are losing ground. Study cites key areas needing protections. (CS Monitor)

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November 18, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Antibiotic resistance: world on cusp of post-antibiotic era (BBC)
• Possible Alzheimer’s drug cut  mice aging symptoms (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• More Babies Are Dying Because Of Congenital Syphilis (NPR)
• Smart dressing 'cuts antibiotic use' (BBC)
• U.S. firefighter gets world's most extensive face transplant  (Reuters)
• US obesity rates 'rising again' (BBC)
• Justice Department Announces Criminal Charges Against Dietary Supplement Firms (NPR)
• Doctors vote to stop drugs ads to consumers (APM Marketplace)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Mexico hopes to see 3-4 times more monarch butterflies (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Dubai outfits firefighters with jetpacks: How firefighting has changed (CS Monitor)
• Microgrids light up the night in Kenya villages (CS Monitor)
• New 'About Me' pages show exactly what Google knows about you (CS Monitor)
• Governments around the world demand more user data from Facebook (CS Monitor)
• Congress says it's time to start mining the solar system (CS Monitor)

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October 10, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

·         DNA segments predict sex orientation, study says (U-T)

·         Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s (The Atlantic)

·         First patient receives stem cell treatment for blindness (CBS)

·         Wherever You Go, Your Personal Cloud Of Microbes Follows NPR

·         Taking blood pressure drugs at bedtime lowers diabetes risk (SD Union-Tribune)

·         Turing Pharmaceuticals Retreats From Plan To Raise Price Of Daraprim (NPR)

·         Sad To Say, Most Remedies For Hot Flashes Fizzle (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

·         Volcanoes cooled earth in the past, constrain warming from excess CO2 (Climate Wire)

·         Germany now faced with thousands of aging wind farms (YahooNews)

·         Volkswagen rigged tests on 2.8 million cars in Germany, Berlin says (Reuters)

·         Not just an electric car, but one that runs on salt water (CS Monitor)

·         Mercedes-Benz’s self-driving truck hits the open road (CS Monitor)

·         Spotted Jellyfish Sighting In Chula Vista Another Sign Of El Niño  (KPBS)

·         Wild horse genome reveals hidden costs of domestication( CS Monitor)

·         Could 'rewilding' allow crops to fight pests without chemicals? (CS Monitor)

·         EU Safe Harbor ruling sends shock waves across tech industry (CS Monitor)

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September 18, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• UCSD Researchers Discover Protein That Can Help Damaged Hearts( KPBS)
• '700 million' malaria cases stopped (BBC)
• The amazing significance of what a mother-to-be eats  (BBC)
• Cognitive Decline May Move Faster In People With Low Vitamin D (NPR)
• New device could save millions from septic shock  (Reuters)
• New blood test helps detect cancer early (U-T)
• Aggressively Lowering Blood Pressure Saves Lives, Study Finds (NPR)
• Waking up HIV to kill it (U-T)
• Why India Is A Hotbed Of Antibiotic Resistance And Sweden Is Not (NPR)
• Child deaths 'halved since 1990' (BBC)
• Modelling spread of hospital bugs (BBC)
• British Scientists Seek Permission To Edit DNA In Human Embryos  (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Has Arctic ice loss reached a tipping point? (CS Monitor)
• Fiat Chrysler to recall 1.06 million trucks over steering glitch (Reuters)
• Former Uber driver was an employee, rules California department (Reuters)
• When Cyber Fraud Hits Businesses, Banks May Not Offer Protection (NPR)
• How robots are helping smaller dairy farms stay in business (CS Monitor)
• 1813 Alaska shipwreck: How they survived  (CS Monitor)
• Black and blue then back again: What’s going on with Beijing skies? (CS Monitor)
• Why climate change is good news to Arctic mosquitoes (CS Monitor)
• Lungs found in mysterious deep-sea fish (CS Monitor)

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August 22, 2015 (San Diego's East County)-- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• No ordinary Patient: How Jimmy Carter’s Stage IV melanoma will be treated (CNN)
• Engineers Make Narcotics With Yeast. Is Home-Brewed Heroin Next? (NPR)
• New Study Suggests Link Between Pot Shops, Marijuana-Related Hospitalizations (KPBS)
• San Diego couple trying to stop time with Novocure (ABC 10 News)
• 'Drinkable book' could give millions access to clean water (CS Monitor)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• What’s the Problem with Urban Agriculture? (Landscape Architects Network)
• We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year (National Geographic)
• NASA finds super-Earth just 21 light years away (+video)
• SoCal To Alaska - Likely Largest On Record
• Global 'food shocks' risk increasing (BBC)
• Suez Canal Expansion Opened With Pomp And Ceremony (NPR)
• When a man shoots his neighbor's drone, whose rights are violated? (CS Monitor)
• Hacked Jeep Cherokee exposes weak underbelly of high-tech cars (Automotive News)
• Experts see long-term calamity from Colorado mine spill (CS Monitor)
• Angry eagle attacks UAV: How do drones affect wildlife? (CS Monitor)
• NASA to Begin Testing Air-Traffic-Control System for Drones (Reason)

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June 5, 2014  (San Diego’s East County)-- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Think Internet Data Mining Goes Too Far? Then You Won't Like This  (NPR)
• Teleportation is real – and here’s why it matters (Time)
• Your car is a giant computer—and it can be hacked (CNN)

HEALTH

• In a first, test of DNA yields root of illness (New York Times)
• Pollution tie to irregular heartbeat (BBC)
• Privacy Law Frustrates Parents Of Mentally Ill Adult Children (NPR)
• The Camel Did It: Scientists Nail Down Source Of Middle East Virus (NPR)
• If Local Farms Aren't Local Enough, Buy From The Rooftop (NPR)
• Teens With Chronic Disease Get Help From Mobile Phones (KPBS)
• Three-person babies 'in two years' (BBC)
• Measles Hits 20-Year High In U.S. (NPR)
• Autism linked to 'male hormones' (BBC)

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March 25, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)-- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Can what you eat affect your mental health?  (USA Today)
• Mom invents harness to help disabled kids walk (ABC News)
• Medical marijuana may ease some MS symptoms (CNN)

SCIENCE

• Voracious root worms evolve to eat biotech corn engineered to kill it (Wired.com)
• Could earth’s infrared emissions be a new renewable energy source? (Gizmag)
• Why 500 Million U.S. Seafood Meals Get Dumped In The Sea (NPR)
•  I Can't Believe What I'm Seeing: A Springtime (Froggy) Miracle (NPR)

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