May 20, 2025 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• FDA sets new requirements for COVID vaccines in healthy adults and children (ABC)
• Common Energy Drink Ingredient Linked to Blood Cancer (People)
• Trump EPA Guts Rules Against Toxic Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water (Common Dreams)
• The FDA approves first U.S. at-home tool as a Pap-smear alternative (KPBS)
• Measles math: What to know about 1,001 measles cases across the country (KPBS)
• The US hasn't seen a human bird flu case in 3 months. Experts are wondering why (AP)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time  (Wired)
• Trump bans 'revenge porn': Melania Trump co-signs the document (USA Today)
• Victims of explicit deepfakes will now be able to take legal action against people who create them (CNN)
• Insight: Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar power inverters (Reuters)

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April 24, 2025 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Virus that causes polio-like illness found in Bay Area as influenza cases spike (SF Gate)
• Tuberculosis cases in the US rose to their highest levels in more than a dozen years (AP)
• States sue Trump administration for rescinding billions in health funding (AP)
• CDC division responsible for asthma control and lead poisoning prevention effectively eliminated (Stat)
• CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration (STAT)
• RFK Jr. says MMR vaccine ‘most effective’ way to stop spread of measles after Texas child’s death (Fox 5)
• Vaccine critic’s apparent selection to head HHS autism study shocks experts (Stat)
• The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations(ProPublica)
• Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water (ABC)
• CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration  (STAT)
• CDC advisory committees not mandated by law at risk of being terminated (Politico)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• NASA weighs doing away with headquarters (Politico)
• Dire wolf revived after 10,000 years due to biotech company's de-extinction process (MSN)
• Exclusive: Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers, research shows (Reuters)
• Trump shifts cyberattack readiness to state and local governments in wake of info-sharing cuts (CSO)
• Dire wolf revived after 10,000 years due to biotech company's de-extinction process (MSN)
• Encrypted messaging apps promise privacy. Government transparency is often the price (AP)
•  Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever (NPR)
• Turned Into a Ghibli Character? So Did Your Private Info (CySecurity News)

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March 19, 2025 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Kennedy gives food company CEOs an ultimatum (Politico)
• USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks (Politico)
• Bird flu-infected San Bernardino County dairy cows may have concerning new mutation (Los Angeles Times)
• As Texas measles outbreak grows, U.S. cases quickly surpass total for all of 2024 (NBC)
• Doctors didn't warn women of 'risky sex' drug urges (BBC)
• DOGE wants access to very personal information of Americans  (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore finally return home after more than nine months in space  (CNN)
• DOGE cuts could end decades of ground-breaking climate research in Hawaii (USA Today)
• This machine turns carbon dioxide into fuel (BBC)

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February 13, 2025 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• How close are we to another pandemic?  (New York Times)
• USDA detects second type of bird flu in dairy cows (NBC)
• Senate confirms RFK Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary (CNN)
• Pro-RFK Jr. letter to the Senate includes names of doctors whose licenses were revoked or suspended  (AP)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• 11 Years After a Celebrated Opening, Massive Solar Plant Faces a Bleak Future in the Mojave Desert (US News)
• Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say (Reuters)
• Solar panels in space show potential for liftoff, despite cost concerns (Christian Science Monitor)
• Google Maps blocks Gulf of America reviews after rename criticism (BBC)

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January 8, 2025 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• How drinking alcohol can affect your health (AP)
• Newsom targets ultra-processed foods to promote healthier living across California (CBS 8)
• Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• The ‘world’s largest’ vacuum to suck climate pollution out of the air just opened. Here’s how it works (CNN)
• Net neutrality is struck down by federal appeals court  (NPR)
• Is your car spying on you? What it means that Tesla shared data in the Las Vegas explosion (AP)

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November 21, 2024 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Millions of pounds of meat, poultry recalled over listeria concerns  (NPR)
• First US case of severe mpox strain reported in California (UK Independent)
• Is it the flu or is it COVID? One at-home test can tell you
• E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots sickens people in 18 states
• This year's flu shot protects against 3 strains instead of 4  (NPR)
• Officials launch new online tool and guidance for South Bay’s rotten egg smell (KPBS)
• 22 pesticides show links to prostate cancer (Science News)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• With Musk in tow, Trump eyes changes to government policies on AI and its dangers (CNN)
• Fighting misinformation: How to keep from falling for fake news videos (USA Today)
• New Apple tool will make it easier to find your lost luggage  (USA Today)
• ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? (BBC)
• Trump's FCC chair wants to ban TikTok, but 'accelerate' Musk's company  (USA Today)

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September 2, 2024 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future

HEALTH

• New COVID-19 booster shots have been approved. When should you get one? (Science News)
• Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law  (AP)
• US FDA approves Emergent's smallpox vaccine for people at high risk of mpox (Reuters via MSN)
• Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible. Here's why (NPR)
• WHO declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency as new form of the virus spreads (10 News)
• U.S. clinical trials in China questioned by U.S. lawmakers (Reuters)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Zapping sand to create rock could help curb coastal erosion (Science News)
• Scientists create game-changing device that can turn air pollution into salt within minutes: 'A reaction that the planet has been running for billions of years' (The  Cooldown)
• SpaceX will return stranded astronauts next year.  (BBC)

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July 18, 2024 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

Children receive first doses of new malaria vaccine, hailed as major milestone (CNN)

Tampons contain lead, arsenic and potentially toxic chemicals, studies say. Here’s what to know (CNN)

Mystery of Gulf War Syndrome Finally Solved by Immunologists (Newsweek)

SCIENCE AND TECH

Cave discovered on Moon could be home for humans  (BBC) 

'Unprecedented' Sea Level Rise Is Making Earth's Days Longer (Newsweek)

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June 18, 2024 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Rare drug-resistant flu variant identified in the US, CDC says (CNN)
• New Recall Warning Issued for Eye Lubricants Sold at Walmart, CVS (WebMD)
• For Republicans, raw milk is the new masking (Salon)
• Lung Cancer Drug’s 'Off-the-Charts’ Results Give Patients Hope (WebMD)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• AI Systems Are Learning to Lie and Deceive, Scientists Find (Futurism)
• Top news app in US has Chinese origins and ‘writes fiction’ with the help of AI (Reuters)
• A Catholic organization built an AI priest. Here's what happened (CNN).

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May 23, 2024 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Signs of Alzheimer’s were everywhere. Then his brain improved. (CNN)
• Despite H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in dairy cattle, raw milk enthusiasts are uncowed(LA Times)
• Daily marijuana use outpaces daily drinking in the US, a new study says (AP)
• Transformation or trouble? Research into MDMA plagued with allegations of misconduct (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• TikTok’s new suitor is former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, as another lawsuit pushes back against ban (CNN)
• Alaskan rivers turning orange due to climate change, study finds (Guardian)
• US opens probe into Alphabet's Waymo over 'unexpected behavior' of self-driving vehicles (Reuters)
• Researchers at UCSD add bacteria to plastic to make it biodegrade  (KPBS)

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April 25, 2024 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• More young people choosing permanent sterilization after abortion restrictions (NBC News)
• Mexico sounds alarm over 'zombie drug' sedative in opioids (Reuters)
• Study: Hunters Die After Consuming CWD-Infected Venison  (Field and Stream)
• Biden administration sets first national standard to limit ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water (CNN)
• Counterfeit Botox injections linked to illness, hospitalization in two states (CNN)
• Toxicologist, nutritionist on what to know about potential health risks of Lunchables (ABC)
• Patients die every day waiting for organ transplants. The problem isn't a lack of donations (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Instagram trying nudity blurring to stop 'sextortion' (BBC)
• Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers(CNN)
• President Biden signs bill to ban Tik-Tok in U.S. unless it is sold(NPR)

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March 18, 2024 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• U.S. measles milestone: 60 cases so far in 2024 — more than all of 2023  (CBS)
• 'Zombie deer disease' cases are rising in the US. Can the disease spread to humans? (USA Today)
• Blood test can detect colorectal cancer early, new study finds  (NPR)
• Teens are getting high on delta-8, or 'weed lite,' an unregulated form of THC  (NPR)
• Overwhelming support for abortion in pregnancy-related emergencies, poll finds  
• (NPR)
• Cancer-causing chemical found in Clinique, Clearasil acne treatments, US lab reports (Reuters)
• The FDA issues an alert for 6 brands of cinnamon due to possibly containing lead   (NPR)
• A Major Source of Toxic PFAS Has Been Eliminated, FDA Says  (Consumer Reports)
• Strength training boosts longevity, mood and metabolism as it builds muscle   (NPR)
• Maternal mortality numbers in the U.S. have been overestimated, study shows  (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• US Supreme Court sets free-speech test for officials who block social media critics (Reuters)
  
  US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban (Reuters)
• Pharmacies nationwide face delays as health-care tech company reports cyberattack (Fox Business)
• Privately built lunar lander makes history with successful moon touchdown (NBC)
• Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests (Reuters)
• Microsoft says it hasn't been able to shake Russian state hackers  (AP)
• CEO of Element Biosciences in Sorrento Valley Named to CNBC ‘Changemakers’ List  (Times of San Diego)
• Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests (Reuters)
• How sea cucumbers act as little allies for disappearing coral reefs  (NPR)

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February 5, 2024 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Haleon to recall batches of some adult cough syrups due to contamination (Reuters)
• Dangers of Marijuana: How high-potency weed & oil can damage the teenage brain  (10 News)
• South America dengue spike prompts vaccination drive as bug spray runs out (Reuters)
• COVID levels are up to 19 times higher than reported, WHO says as it warns of the potential dangers of repeat reinfection: ‘We don’t know everything about this virus’ (MSN)
• The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances(NPR) 

SCIENCE AND TECH

• San Diego researcher lands prestigious scientific award  (KPBS)
• Musk's X aims to hire 100 content moderators in Austin by end of year  (Reuters)

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January 9, 2024 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Emergency rooms not required to perform life-saving abortions, federal appeals court rules (Tribune)
• Medicare Advantage plans are popular, but some seniors feel trapped when ill  (NPR)
• Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during Covid, study finds (Politico)
• Tampa's new water filtration system is expected to help remove forever chemicals  (NPR)
• It's been 4 years since COVID hit. Here's what's happening to prevent the next pandemic. (USA Today)
• Why hospitals in several states are reinstating mask requirements (ABC News)
• Early intervention for schizophrenia is effective, but insurance won't cover it (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Russian hackers were inside Ukraine telecoms giant for months  (Reuters)
• Here's how to safely charge e-bikes, prevent fires (CBS 8)
• Why Are Alaska’s Rivers Turning Orange?  (Scientific American)
• Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food (Reuters)
• An abused wife took on Tesla over tracking tech. She lost. (Reuters)
• Driverless car startup Cruise's no good, terrible year (NPR)

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November 17, 2023 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Supreme Court deals blow to vaccine skeptics (Newsweek)
• The World’s First Whole-Eye Transplant Is Helping an Arkansas Man Recover From a Catastrophic Injury (Tme)
• CRISPR for high cholesterol shows promise in first study (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• Elon Musk faces growing backlash over his endorsement of antisemitic X post (CBS)
• A new type of climate-friendly energy is coming online in the U.S. Southwest   (NPR)
• U.S. regulators will review car-tire chemical that kills salmon, upon request from West Coast tribes (AP)

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