California lawmakers vote to repeal HIV criminalization laws
The Sun Herald California lawmakers have passed a bill to make punishments for intentionally infecting someone with HIV the same as for other communicable diseases. The state Senate voted Wednesday to send SB239 to the Assembly. It would make knowingly exposing ... |
CBS News |
British breast surgeon who maimed patients gets 15 years
CBS News LONDON -- A judge sentenced a British breast surgeon whose victims accused him of playing God to 15 years in prison Wednesday for carrying out unnecessary operations that maimed patients and left some in constant pain. A jury in the central English ... Butcher breast surgeon Ian Paterson is jailed Unnecessary breast surgeries get UK doctor jailed for 15 years Surgeon Who Inflated Breast Cancer Risk Jailed for 15 Years |
Ohio pilot, wife died from powerful animal tranquilizer, cocaine mixture
MyAJC Rob Nelson/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty A hypodermic needle and cocaine are seen in this photo. An Ohio coroner just ruled a Spirit Airlines pilot and his wife died from an accidental overdose after an injection of cocaine mixed with the animal ... |
Patch.com |
Doctors Warn Of Increased Risk For Lyme Disease This Summer
Patch.com There will be more ticks this year, which means more Lyme disease. Find out how you can protect yourself. By Alex Costello (Patch Staff) - May 31, 2017 4:04 pm ET. Doctors Warn Of Increased Risk For Lyme Disease This Summer On Long Island. PUBLIC HEALTH: Ticks pose avoidable health risk How to spot — and avoid getting — Lyme disease Don't let ticks make a meal of you – or your pet |
Washington Post |
Health officials vow to develop drugs to curb the opioid epidemic
Washington Post Top federal health officials said Wednesday that they will launch a joint effort with pharmaceuticals companies to accelerate the development of drugs aimed at helping to curb the U.S. opioid epidemic. Francis S. Collins, director of the National ... Opioid Crisis: NIH Launches New Push to Fight Epidemic NIH announces new initiative to fight opioid crisis The role of science in combatting the opioid crisis NIH/Office of the Director |
HealthDay |
Did a 1980 Letter Help Spark the US Opioid Crisis?
HealthDay WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Today's U.S. opioid epidemic is rooted in a 1980 letter to a medical journal that played down the potential for painkiller addiction, a new report states. The 101-word letter, written by Boston University ... Painful words: How a 1980 letter fueled the opioid epidemic Canadians show how a 100-word research article helped create North America's deadly opioid crisis |
NPR |
Do Tree-Climbing Goats Help Plant New Trees?
NPR Do trees grow from seeds that goats eat and later expel? That is a question that has long bedeviled ecologists. Let's say it's a small seed. The goat will swallow it, poop it out and a tree could sprout. But what if it's a sizable seed? It probably ... |
My Fox Boston |
Ohio pilot, wife died from powerful animal tranquilizer, cocaine mixture
My Fox Boston A Spirit Airlines pilot and his wife died of an overdose of cocaine and carfentanil, a drug so powerful its primary use is to tranquilize rhinos and elephants, the coroner's office in Montgomery County, Ohio confirmed on Tuesday. Brian Halye, 36, and ... Spirit Airlines Pilot Fatally Overdoses On Cocaine Spiked With An Elephant Tranquilizer Centerville overdose deaths: Did airline pilot and wife know they were taking powerful elephant tranquilizer? Coroner: Ohio airline pilot, wife OD'd on cocaine, carfentanil |
WCVB Boston |
Maine Records 2 Cases of Encephalitis Caused by Mosquitoes
U.S. News & World Report The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that the state has already recorded two cases of encephalitis caused by a mosquito-borne disease. | May 31, 2017, at 1:54 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Maine Records 2 ... Two cases of tick-borne Powassan encephalitis diagnosed in Maine Two cases of Powassan Encephalitis identified in Maine Officials Confirm 2 New Cases of Rare Tick-Borne Illness |
Daily Mail |
Why you really shouldn't go swimming with a new tattoo
Daily Mail A Hispanic man died after developing sepsis when his fresh tattoo wound became infected from swimming in the sea. The unidentified 31-year-old ignored advice given to those with new inkings that they should wait for two weeks before venturing into ... Man dies after ignoring new tattoo advice, catches infection... Doing THIS after getting a tattoo could kill you Trending News: Here's Why You Should Never, EVER, Go Swimming With A New Tattoo |
Newsweek |
Coming This Summer (Maybe): Return of the Zika Virus
Newsweek Zika, the mosquito-borne virus that triggered public health alarm bells last summer, has receded from the spotlight. But, experts say, expect the virus to pose a renewed threat this year. How great of a threat? That's where it gets tricky. Subscribe to ... Zika prevention efforts get underway in Md. |
Reuters |
Ohio sues five drug companies over opioid crisis
Reuters A used needle sits on the ground in a park in Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S., May 30, 2017, where individuals were arrested earlier in the day during raids to break up heroin and fentanyl drug rings in the region, according to law enforcement officials. State of Ohio suing five largest opiates manufacturers Ohio Attorney General suing companies that make pain medications Ohio Attorney General sues prescription drug manufacturers |
LancasterOnline |
Reading Health System, which has ties to UPMC, to buy 5 CHS hospitals
LancasterOnline A big hospital deal announced late Tuesday could prove yet another foothold for the largest health system in Pennsylvania to enter this region. Reading Health System in Berks County announced late Tuesday that it has signed an agreement to buy five ... Reading Health to buy 5 hospitals, change name to Tower Reading Health System Buys Pottstown Hospital CHS selling five more Pennsylvania hospitals |
BBC News |
Ian Paterson: 'He took a pound of flesh for money'
BBC News Breast surgeon Ian Paterson is beginning a 15 year prison sentence after being convicted of intentionally wounding patients and carrying out unnecessary operations. Here, more of his victims share their stories. Breast surgeon Ian Paterson jailed for 15 years for carrying out needless operations Rogue surgeon Ian Paterson is jailed for 15 years Rogue breast cancer surgeon Ian Paterson sentenced to 15 years prison for 'butchering' patients |
NPR |
New Rules May Make Online Health Insurance Sales Simpler
NPR Signing up for coverage on the health insurance marketplace should be easier for some people this fall because new federal rules will allow brokers and insurers to handle the entire enrollment process online, from soup to nuts. Some consumer advocates ... |
WCVB Boston |
Wake up call: Halifax Elementary School, Council on Aging
WCVB Boston The Roseville California Police Department and the community is rallying behind one of their officers who is battling brain cancer. Advertisement. Officer Bobby Seich moved to Roseville after defying the odds -- defeating brain cancer in 2008 and ... |
WBAL Baltimore |
Portland stabbing suspect: "You call it terrorism, I call it patriotism"
WBAL Baltimore "Get out if you don't like free speech," Jeremy Christian yelled as he walked into the courtroom Tuesday. Advertisement. Community comes together for police officer battling brain tumor. KCRA |. Updated: 5:34 AM EDT May 31, 2017. Advertisement. |
Study: China struggles to kick world-leading cigarette habit
ABC News A man and a woman smoke cigarettes outside of an office building in Beijing, Wednesday, May 31, 2017. A decade-long study has found that most smokers in China, the world's largest consumer of tobacco, have no intention of kicking the habit and remain ... |
The Guardian |
Hackers publish private photos from cosmetic surgery clinic
The Guardian Hackers have published more than 25,000 private photos, including nude pictures, and other personal data from patients of a Lithuanian cosmetic surgery clinic, police say. The images were made public on Tuesday by a hacking group calling themselves ... Celebrities among victims of hackers who stole and released plastic surgery's before-and-after pictures Plastic surgery clinics hacked; 25000 photos, data online Lithuania plastic surgery clinics hacked; 25000 photos, data online |
Sleep Review |
The Warming Temperatures of Climate Change Could Harm Sleep
Sleep Review Climate change may keep you awake—and not just metaphorically. Nights that are warmer than normal can harm human sleep, researchers show in a new paper, with the poor and elderly most affected. According to their findings, if climate change is not ... Another Reason Climate Change Could Keep You Up At Night Is climate change keeping you up at night? Climate Change Is Literally Making You Lose Sleep |
Pot panel sifts application forms
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission outlined Tuesday how it will score applications to grow and distribute the drug in the state, where prospective businesses will begin filling out paperwork in about a month. A final decision to approve the ... |
Las Vegas Review-Journal |
With recreational weed sales coming, what will happen to medical marijuana in Nevada?
Las Vegas Sun A man displays medical marijuana after making a purchase at the public opening of Euphoria Wellness, 7785 S. Jones Blvd., the first marijuana dispensary in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. By Chris Kudialis (contact). Wednesday, May 31, 2017 | 2 ... Pot panel sifts application forms Marijuana meeting found not to have violated Nevada open meeting law |
Las Vegas Review-Journal |
Marijuana meeting found not to have violated Nevada open meeting law
Las Vegas Review-Journal The attorney general's office found no violation, although it does want more information posted about future public meetings. Buford Davis / Las Vegas Business Press. By Colton Lochhead Las Vegas Review-Journal. May 30, 2017 - 2:40 pm. Updated May 30 ... |
Study: China struggles to kick world-leading cigarette habit
Minneapolis Star Tribune BEIJING — A decade-long study has found that most smokers in China, the world's largest consumer of tobacco, have no intention of quitting and remain unaware of the damaging health effects. The study released Wednesday by the Chinese Center for ... |
U.S. News & World Report |
Growing Pot Industry Offers Breaks to Entice Minorities
U.S. News & World Report Some cities and states with legal pot are trying to make up for the toll marijuana enforcement took on minorities by giving them a better shot at joining the growing marijuana industry. | May 31, 2017, at 4:14 a.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon ... States offer breaks to minority marijuana entrepreneurs States move quickly to protect pot industry |
Sleep Review |
The Warming Temperatures of Climate Change Could Harm Sleep
Sleep Review Climate change may keep you awake—and not just metaphorically. Nights that are warmer than normal can harm human sleep, researchers show in a new paper, with the poor and elderly most affected. According to their findings, if climate change is not ... Is climate change keeping you up at night? Another Reason Climate Change Could Keep You Up At Night Climate Change Is Literally Making You Lose Sleep |
Invasive, disease-carrying Asian tiger mosquito now surviving winter in Connecticut
Shoreline Times NEW HAVEN >> The Asian tiger mosquito, which thrives in urban and suburban environments and readily feeds on humans, can survive the winter in Connecticut and could help spread West Nile virus, according to an article published by the Connecticut ... |
Immortal News |
Chronic Sleep Loss Can Cause The Brain To Eat Itself
Immortal News Not getting enough sleep may burn out the brain and increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's, a new study says. An Italian study found that the brain cells that destroy and digest worn-out cells and brain debris in mice went into overdrive when they ... |