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- Alabama doctors want patients to know they're still providing abortions
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 03:03 PMProviders at the only three clinics in Alabama that offer abortion services want patients to know their doors are still open.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What it's like to try to get an abortion in Mississippi
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 08:03 AMWhen Amanda Furdge walked into a clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, in the spring of 2014, she knew exactly what she wanted: to confirm whether she was pregnant, and to have an abortion if she was.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - It's not just soda: Drinking too much fruit juice (or any sugary drink) linked to premature death risk
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 11:00 AMMany sugar-sweetened beverages have little to no nutritional value and lots of calories, and their harmful health effects have been well-documented.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - She learned to fly a plane with just her feet. Now, Jessica Cox is inspiring women in aviation around the world
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 04:32 AMIt's natural for pilot Jessica Cox to place her right foot on the yoke and her left foot on the throttle right before she's cleared for takeoff.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Planned Parenthood Southeast fielded so many questions on new abortion laws it had to open another phone line
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 08:09 PMHundreds of women in Georgia and Alabama are calling Planned Parenthood and asking the group whether abortion is still legal in their states.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - LED lights damage eyes and disturb sleep, European health authority warns
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 02:47 PMThe blue light in LED lighting that is increasingly used in our homes can damage the eye's retina while disturbing our biological and sleep rhythms, a French health authority warned in a new report.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Judge rips insurance company for 'immoral, barbaric' cancer denials
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 07:48 AMA federal judge blasted UnitedHealthcare last month for its "immoral and barbaric" denials of treatment for cancer patients.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - North Carolina sues Juul, claiming deceptive marketing and targeting youth
Wednesday - 05/15/2019 - 04:55 PMNorth Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced Wednesday that the state has filed a lawsuit against e-cigarette manufacturer Juul, claiming that its marketed its products to children and misled the public about risks associated with those products.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sugary drink sales plummeted in Philadelphia after soda tax
Wednesday - 05/15/2019 - 11:48 AMImplementing a sales tax may help get Americans to stop drinking sugary drinks, if a new study about Philadelphia soda consumption is any indication.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Majority of sunscreens tested would flunk proposed FDA safety tests, report says
Wednesday - 05/15/2019 - 04:56 AMNearly two-thirds of all sunscreens evaluated by the Environmental Working Group would not pass safety tests proposed by the US Food and Drug Administration, the consumer advocacy group announced Wednesday.
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- Debates over anti-abortion laws have raised common myths about abortion. These are the facts
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 08:47 AMIt's not just Alabama and Georgia.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dr. Gupta: If you see someone struggling with mental illness, don't turn away
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 08:06 AMOn the morning of September 25, 2000, when Kevin Hines looked out from the Golden Gate Bridge, it must have been a magnificent sight. The sun bouncing off the coastline of Marin County to the left and backlighting the coast of San Francisco to the right, with Alcatraz straight ahead.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Over-processed foods add 500 calories to your diet every day, causing weight gain
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 12:47 PMLess expensive, easier to prepare ultra-processed foods can make you fat, a new study says.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Protecting your skin from the inside out
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 04:28 AMAs cloudy skies start to turn sunnier, you might be checking your stash of sunscreen.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - LED lights damage eyes and disturb sleep, European health authority warns
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 11:47 AMThe blue light in LED lighting that is increasingly used in our homes can damage the eye's retina while disturbing our biological and sleep rhythms, a French health authority warned in a new report.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - British people get drunk more often than anyone else, says survey
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 06:26 AMBritish people get drunk more than any other nationality, according to a new global survey.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 1 in 7 babies is born underweight, with dire consequences for their health, global study says
Wednesday - 05/15/2019 - 06:31 PMOver 20 million babies around the world -- about 1 out of every 7 -- were born underweight in 2015, a slight improvement over rates in 2000 but not enough to meet goals and prevent global health consequences, according to a new study.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Actresses Milla Jovovich and Jameela Jamil share their abortion stories to decry Georgia law
Wednesday - 05/15/2019 - 04:07 PMMilla Jovovich is the latest actress to reveal that she had an abortion, while criticizing abortion bills in Georgia and other states.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - America just had its lowest number of births in 32 years, report finds
Wednesday - 05/15/2019 - 04:54 AMAmerica's fertility rate and the number of births nationwide are continuing to decline.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FDA can't regulate death penalty drugs, Justice Department says
Wednesday - 05/15/2019 - 05:01 AMThe Food and Drug Administration does not have jurisdiction over death penalty drugs, the Justice Department said in an opinion.
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- Debates over anti-abortion laws have raised common myths about abortion. These are the facts
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 07:44 AMIt's not just Alabama and Georgia.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Over-processed foods add 500 calories to your diet every day, causing weight gain
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 09:57 AMLess expensive, easier to prepare ultra-processed foods can make you fat, a new study says.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Suicide rates in girls are rising, study finds, especially in those age 10 to 14
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 11:00 AMSuicide rates for young girls are rising at a pace faster than that of boys, changing the established patterns that boys are more likely to die by suicide and that girls are more likely to consider it and attempt it, according to a new study.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Turkey's whirling dervish guide to coping with pain and a broken heart
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 04:37 AMImages of Turkey are exotically beautiful to many people: Vibrant poppy fields, multispired mosques and of course the mystical whirling dervishes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ruling turns up pressure for FDA to strictly regulate e-cigarettes
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 02:43 PMSome politicians and pediatricians have urged the US Food and Drug Administration to take strong, swift action on the growing use of e-cigarettes among America's youth, but the latest move comes from a federal judge who ordered the agency to speed up its review of thousands of vaping products now on the market.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Alabama cares for life outside the womb
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 07:24 AMAlabama has enacted a bill to effectively ban abortion, with lawmakers vowing to protect life from the moment of conception.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Met is no longer taking money from the Sackler family, makers of OxyContin
Wednesday - 05/15/2019 - 07:21 PMNew York's Metropolitan Museum of Art says it no longer will take donations from the Sackler family, principal owner of Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Light-activated bio-glue that moves with a beating heart can repair life-threatening wounds in pigs
Wednesday - 05/15/2019 - 12:34 PMUncontrolled bleeding during surgery can cause death.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Light-activated bio-glue that moves with a beating heart can repair life-threatening wounds in pigs
Wednesday - 05/15/2019 - 12:47 PMUncontrolled bleeding during surgery can cause death.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jurors punish Monsanto with a record $2 billion verdict over Roundup weedkiller. But the story's not over
Tuesday - 05/14/2019 - 05:58 PMA jury said Roundup gave a California couple cancer.
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