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Dangerous Roads in California
According to the National Safety Council, tens of thousands of people die in traffic-related crashes and accidents every year. A high number of related fatalities in California often cause the state to rank on lists about the nation's most dangerous roads. The...
Modesto Car Accident Study
A recent study analyzed the car accidents in the city of Modesto and the surrounding cities in Stanislaus County. The findings give in sight to the most dangerous days and times to drive in the Modesto area. They also serve as a warning to all drivers. Traffic...
Causes of Increase in US Pedestrian Accidents
Since 2010, pedestrian deaths are up 77% according to the Governors Highway Safety Association data. Why did over 7,500 people die while walking or jogging on a roadway last year? Every day, on average, 20 Americans walk along a roadway and are killed by a vehicle. In...
Why It’s So Hard to Change Our Habits
X Reasons Why We Find It So Hard to Change Habits If you've done something a certain way your entire life, it will be incredibly difficult for you to change your pattern of behavior around it. This ranges from directly harmful habits, like routinely consuming harmful...
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Isle of Man Parliament passes assisted dying bill
5 minutes agoShareSaveShareSaveMANX SCENESProposed laws to give terminally ill adults on the Isle of Man the right to choose to end their own lives have been agreed by the Manx parliament.It means the bill can now be sent for Royal Assent, making it the first...
Many People With Disabilities Risk Losing Their Medicaid if They Work Too Much
PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has run into a jumble of Medicaid rules that effectively prevent many people with disabilities from holding full-time jobs. “Which is it? Do...
UK draws up new disease-threat watch list
4 hours agoShareSaveMichelle RobertsDigital health editor, BBC NewsShareSaveGetty ImagesThe UK has a new watch list of 24 infectious diseases that could pose the greatest future threat to public health. Some are viruses with global pandemic potential - like Covid -...
Doctors and charities call for gonorrhoea vaccine roll-out
4 hours agoShareSaveAndrew RogersBBC NewsbeatShareSaveBBCMax was in the shower when he got a call few would want. "My phone is connected to a speaker in the shower. That goes off, and I'm like: 'Oh no'," he says.He was told he'd tested positive for gonorrhoea.His was...
First case of bird flu in sheep found on UK farm
15 hours agoShareSaveSteve JonesBBC News, YorkshireShareSaveGetty ImagesThe world's first case of bird flu in sheep has been found in the UK, the nation's chief veterinary officer has confirmed.The exact location of the farm has not been revealed, but a government...
DNA testing site 23andMe files for bankruptcy protection
Popular DNA testing firm 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy protection, and announced that its co-founder and CEO, Anne Wojcicki, has resigned with immediate effect.The company will now attempt to sell itself under the supervision of a court. 23andMe said in a press...
Current, Former CDC Staff Warn Against Slashing Support to Local Public Health Departments
On a sunny weekday in Atlanta, a small crowd of people gathered for a rally outside of a labor union headquarters building. The event, put together by Atlanta-area Democratic U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, was attended mostly by union members and recently fired federal...
The Colorado Psychedelic Mushroom Experiment Has Arrived
BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state’s first “healing centers,” where the mushrooms can be ingested under supervision, in late spring or early summer. The dawn of...
Scans in shopping centres and AI – can ideas like these help save the NHS?
24 hours agoShareSaveAlison HoltSocial affairs editorShareSaveBBC"That was really quick - straight in, straight out," says Phil Brown as he leaves a smart glass building in a shopping centre in Barnsley.He has just had an ultrasound scan at an NHS centre which sits...
My baby’s premature birth was humbling, says Beatrice
Princess Beatrice has described the premature birth of her daughter as "humbling". Her daughter Athena Elizabeth Rose was born several weeks premature at London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on 22 January. She weighed 4lb 5oz (2kg)."Nothing quite prepares you for...
Repeated failures in reading scans costing lives, ombudsman says
4 days agoShareSaveSmitha MundasadHealth reporter, BBC NewsShareSaveGetty ImagesRepeated failures in how CTs, X-rays and other medical scans are being interpreted are leading to avoidable patient deaths and delays in diagnosing cancer, England's health ombudsman has...