Health
Keeping your teen driver safe
(HealthDay)—Rules for new drivers instituted in Massachusetts back in 2007 have led to fewer car crashes, including fewer deadly crashes, among drivers in their teens.
Oct 30, 2018
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Medications
Trump plan to execute 'big drug pushers' will do nothing to stop opioid overdoses
On March 19, President Donald Trump unveiled his administration's plan to stem the opioid overdose crisis in the United States, which has claimed some 350,000 lives since 2000. Among other measures, it proposes severe punishment ...
Mar 27, 2018
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Health
When can you buy a gun, vote or be sentenced to death? Science suggests US should revise legal age limits
Societies have long grappled with where to draw the chronological age boundary between adolescence and adulthood. The United States stands apart from most of the world in that it uses different ages for different rights and ...
Mar 5, 2018
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Health
Support for financial penalties up with emphasis on patient harms
(HealthDay)—Physicians who receive information about patient harms are more likely to support financial penalties targeting inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, according to a research letter published online June 20 in ...
Jun 21, 2017
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France adopts law against misleading anti-abortion websites
France's parliament has approved a bill criminalizing websites that carry purposely false information with the aim of dissuading women from having abortions.
Feb 16, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Watching a lot of TV increases susceptibility to everyday myths
People who watch a lot of television are more likely to be susceptible to everyday myths – irrespective of their age, education or gender. This is the basic finding of a media study conducted at MedUni Vienna's Center for ...
Aug 23, 2016
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Medications
Pfizer says it's blocking use of drugs for lethal injections
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer said Friday it was blocking use of its drugs in lethal injections, which means all federally-approved drugmakers whose medications could be used for executions have now put them off limits.
May 14, 2016
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Medications
World's nations urged to shift focus on drug problem (Update)
World governments at a UN meeting on the global drug problem were urged Tuesday to move away from repression, abolish the death penalty for drug offenses and step up treatment.
Apr 19, 2016
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Health
Health care fines press millenials as sign-up deadline nears
Millions of young adults healthy enough to think they don't need insurance face painful choices this year as the sign-up deadline approaches for President Barack Obama's health care law.
Jan 26, 2016
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Premiums expected to rise in many health law markets
Premiums are expected to rise in many parts of the country as a new sign-up season under President Barack Obama's health care law starts Nov. 1. But consumers have options if they're willing to shop, and an upgraded government ...
Oct 23, 2015
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