White House Proposes New Rules to Steady Insurance Markets Under Health Law

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White House Proposes New Rules to Steady Insurance Markets Under Health Law

New York Times
Sami Jamaleddine, left, signed up for health insurance in Miami on Jan. 31, the final day of open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act.

Autism detectable in brain long before symptoms appear

BBC News
Brain scans can detect autism long before any symptoms start to emerge, say scientists. The earliest that children tend to be diagnosed at present is at the age of two, although it is often later.

Brains of those with ADHD show smaller structures related to emotion

CNN
(CNN) People diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have smaller brain volume than those without the disorder, according to a study published Wednesday in the medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry.

Rat-Related Disease Kills 1, Bronx Residents Angered By Infestation

NPR
A neighborhood in the Bronx is being targeted by New York City health department officials after one person died and two others became severely ill from contracting a rare disease transmitted by rats.

Wide variation in willingness of ER doctors to prescribe painkillers

Fox News
A national comparison of emergency room physicians has uncovered a broad range of prescribing patterns for painkillers, and high-volume prescribers may be encouraging long-term use of the drugs among their elderly patients.

Americans are seriously stressed out about the future of the country, survey finds

Washington Post
We’re a nation of people already wound pretty tight. But right now we’re more stressed out than we’ve been in the past decade, according to a survey released Wednesday.

Judge orders New York mom to avoid more pregnancies

New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV
Judge Patricia Gallaher, a Monroe County family court judge, handed down a court order telling a mother to avoid getting pregnant.

Robert De Niro, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offer $100G for proof vaccines are safe

New York Daily News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Robert De Niro are offering $100,000 to anyone who can provide proof that vaccines are safe. (World Mercury Project).

Psychiatrist: Calling Donald Trump Mentally Ill Is An Insult To The Mentally Ill

Huffington Post
“He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn’t make him mentally ill.” 02/15/2017 11:37 pm ET | Updated 7 hours ago.

China Blacklists Carfentanil, Closing A Deadly Loophole

NPR
The drug is so strong and deadly, it’s been researched as a chemical weapon of warfare; police officers are warned to handle it with extreme care.

A Bit More Vitamin D Might Help Prevent Colds And Flu

KGOU
It’s long been known that vitamin D helps protect our bones, but the question of whether taking vitamin D supplements helps guard immunity has been more controversial.

Congress is about to make it easier for states to defund Planned Parenthood

Vox
Planned Parenthood will survive – but a lot of women will lose access to birth control. Updated by Emily Crockett@emilycrockettemily@vox.

Trump’s claim that there’s ‘tremendous amount of increase’ in autism cases

Washington Post
“So what’s going on with autism? When you look at the tremendous increases, really, it’s such an incredible – it’s like, really a horrible thing to watch, the tremendous amount of increase.

China says bird flu spread slows, vows to stiffen controls

Reuters
BEIJING The spread of a deadly strain of bird flu in China is slowing, health authorities said on Thursday, as they vowed to tighten controls on markets and the transport of live poultry to battle the virus.

Snider family company details proposed medical-marijuana facility in Northeast Philly

Philly.com
A company founded by the children of late Flyers founder Ed Snider on Wednesday unveiled its plan to build a 125,000-square-foot medical marijuana grow factory on a wooded 14-acre industrial parcel at 14515 McNulty Rd.

FDA approves new psoriasis drug

FDA.gov
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Siliq (brodalumab) to treat adults with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. Siliq is administered as an injection.

New HIV infections decline 18% in US

Healio
SEATTLE —The overall number of annual HIV infections in the United States declined 18% over a 6-year period, with approximately 45,700 new infections occurring in 2008 and 37,600 occurring in 2014, according to new CDC estimates presented at the …

Melinda Gates says contraceptives are one of the “greatest anti-poverty innovations in history”

Quartz
In her quest to end poverty among women in developing countries, Melinda Gates has championed a slew of innovations that she sees as potentially life-altering.

Older women reduce their endometrial cancer risk with weight loss

Business Insider
(Reuters Health) – Postmenopausal women who intentionally lost weight over the course of three years had a much lower risk of endometrial cancer up to 11 years later compared to women whose weight didn’t change, a U.S.

FDA: Improper use of Neti Pots could lead to brain-eating amoebas

WTSP.com
Neti Pots have become a regular use in many homes. They are used to flush out clogged nasal passages and help people breathe easier, but the FDA has issued a warning regarding the use of the product.

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