Health
Vitamin E in vaping products appears as the culprit in lung illnesses
Federal and state investigators have identified vitamin E in cannabis vaping products taken from patients experiencing mysterious lung illnesses. MORE
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Food
Junk food diet leads to blindness
Today CNN and some other sources around the web shared a story about too much junk food causing a teenager to go blind. The study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine MORE
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Gronkowski: Football was bringing me down
Former New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski became emotional Tuesday morning when describing his decision to retire from the NFL in March. “I want to be clear to my fans. I needed to recover. I was MORE
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Groups Want Kavanaugh’s Abortion Record Investigated
Next month marks one year since an upset, though collected, Christine Blasey Ford recalled one of the most horrible nights of her life before the world—and one year since Brett Kavanaugh, angry and pursed, denied MORE
Environment
Flint, Newark, and the Crisis of Lead in Water
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A US city is facing a public health crisis, after years of denying that it had a problem with lead in its drinking water supply. In 2016, MORE
Health
HHS alleges nurse at University of Vermont Medical Center forced to participate in an abortion
A unnamed, Catholic nurse at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Vt filed suit against the hospital in 2018 alleging it forced her to participate in an elective abortion. In 2017, the MORE
Health
Hepatitis A outbreak spreads to 25 counties in Alabama
All food service workers in Alabama are being urged to get vaccinated as the Hepatitis A outbreak in Alabama has spread to 25 counties. The Alabama Department of Public Health said there are 132 confirmed MORE
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Measles: ‘Reasonable chance’ United States will lose elimination status
When the World Health Organization declared in 2000 that the United States had eliminated measles, it was hailed as one of the biggest public health achievements in the nation’s history. Now there’s a “reasonable chance” MORE
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Michigan warns residents of deadly mosquito-borne virus
Health officials in Michigan have issued a warning to residents as they investigate three possible human cases of a deadly mosquito-borne illness.The disease, known as Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEE), causes brain inflammation, which can MORE
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Federal judge blocks Missouri’s 8-week abortion ban
A federal judge blocked Missouri’s law banning abortions after eight weeks, one day before the law was to go into effect. In May, Missouri passed the “Missouri Stands for the Unborn,” act, another attempt states MORE
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Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million Oklahoma opioid case
An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay over $572 million for pushing doctors to prescribe opioids while downplaying the risks of addiction, actions that state prosecutors said helped fuel the state’s opioid epidemic MORE
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Trump Orders ‘a Lot’ of Ketamine for Depressed Veterans
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the government will purchase “a lot” of the drug esketamine, a derivative of ketamine. Though ketamine is known as a recreational hallucinogen, Trump asserted that a new nasal-spray MORE
Americas
Recent Amazon fires could could strike a blow to fighting climate change
This year alone, Brazil has suffered “72,843 fires with more than half in the Amazon region,’the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said. That’s more than an 80% increase compared with the same period last MORE
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45% of Americans wear underwear for 2 days or longer, survey finds
NEW YORK CITY – A new survey found that 45% of Americans claim to have worn the same pair of underwear for two days or longer. Underwear company Tommy John surveyed 1,000 men and women to MORE
Health
Flight attendant dies after contracting measles on plane from New York
A flight attendant on Israel’s national carrier who fell ill with measles on a plane she was working on five months ago, has died. MORE
Health
Make mine a double
Good news arrived today on two fronts in the vaccines-vs-disease war. An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo started a little over a year ago, and health-care workers continue to struggle with widespread MORE