US air quality is slipping after years of improvement
After decades of improvement, America’s air may not be getting any cleaner. Over the last two years the nation had more polluted air days than
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San Francisco Set to Approve First-of-Its-Kind Ban on E-Cigarette Sales
Tobacco-flavored Juul pods on sale in San Francisco on June 17, 2019.Photo: Samantha Maldonado (AP) The city of San Francisco has become the first in
Vaccination bungle: thousands of patients may have been given defective injections by Sydney clinic | Australia news
Thousands of patients of a Sydney GP clinic may need to be re-vaccinated after it was discovered some shots were incorrectly stored or out of
Hospitals and Patients Are Being Plagued by Robocalls
A specialist doctor for casualty surgery managing patients by phone at Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany, in 2006. Stock photo.Photo: Carsten Koall (Getty Images)
Unsafe medicines stolen in Italy ‘entered NHS supply chain’ | Business
Medical authorities in Britain have launched an internal inquiry after unsafe medicines for common conditions were stolen from Italian hospitals, sold to UK pharmacies and
YouTube Testimonials Lure Patients to Shady Stem-Cell Clinics
Punch “stem cells” into YouTube and your first hit looks like something from a seventh-grade biology textbook. Number two features a Duke sports medicine doc
Adwoa Aboah: ‘I thought I was hideous. I wanted to jump out of my skin’ | Life and style
Adwoa Aboah’s clothes are causing a stir, and not – as you might expect from one of the world’s most recognisable models – in a
Don’t follow this viral tweet’s ‘natural’ birth control advice
Please, for the love of comprehensive sex education, do not use wild yams for birth control. In an unfortunate now-deleted Bad Tweet, podcast host @MissBriaJanay
AP analysis: Broad legalization takes toll on medical pot
When states legalize pot for all adults, long-standing medical marijuana programs take a big hit, in some cases losing more than half their registered patients
Mick Jagger says he’s ‘feeling pretty good’ in first post-surgery interview
“I’m feeling pretty good,” Mick Jagger said in his first interview since heart surgery caused him to reschedule the Rolling Stones’ upcoming North American summer
How do you teach kids about texting? Bring in the teenagers
How do you teach tech-savvy kids to safely navigate the digital world? In Germany, you bring in the teenagers. On a recent day, 18-year-old Chantal
Grant Robertson: ‘New Zealand’s prosperity is about much more than GDP growth’ | Eleanor Ainge Roy | Society
Last month the New Zealand finance minister, Grant Robertson, unveiled a major shake-up of his country’s annual budget. For the first time the budget puts
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Sleeping with the TV on may make you gain weight
Dozing off to late-night TV or sleeping with other lights on may mix up your metabolism and lead to weight gain and even obesity, provocative
Scientists feel chill of crackdown on fetal tissue research
To save babies from brain-damaging birth defects, University of Pittsburgh scientist Carolyn Coyne studies placentas from fetuses that otherwise would be discarded — and she’s