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Fewer people under the age of 65 are being burdened by medical bills, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics.

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Think food allergy warnings are confusing? You're not alone.

The Boston Globe - ‎8 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON - ''Made in the same factory as peanuts.'' “May contain traces of tree nuts.'' A new report says the hodgepodge of warnings that a food might accidentally contain a troublesome ingredient is confusing to people with food allergies, and ...

Why Can't We Bring Down The Number Of New HIV Cases?

NPR - ‎3 hours ago‎
While the HIV/AIDS epidemic no longer looks as menacing as it did in the 1980s and '90s, efforts to stop the spread of the disease have hit a brick wall.

No link between flu or flu vaccine in pregnancy and autism

New York Daily News - ‎9 hours ago‎
Good news, moms-to-be: There's no link between the flu and autism, per this study. (g-stockstudio/Getty Images/iStockphoto). BY Nicole Lyn Pesce.

An effort to get ecstasy FDA-approved is entering a key final test

Business Insider - ‎16 hours ago‎
After veteran Tony Macie came back from Iraq in 2007, he learned he had post-traumatic stress disorder. Macie went to the VA "on and off" and tried the standard therapy.

Ingredient in magic mushrooms is shown to ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients in one dose

Los Angeles Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
In findings that could pry open a door closed for nearly half a century, researchers have found that psilocybin - a hallucinogen long used in traditional healing rituals - eases the depression and soothes the anxiety of patients contending with ...

Lawsuits challenge abortion restrictions in 3 states

Washington Post - ‎6 hours ago‎
NEW YORK - Taking the offensive after Election Day setbacks, Planned Parenthood and its allies filed lawsuits Wednesday in North Carolina, Missouri and Alaska challenging laws that they view as unconstitutional restrictions on abortion.

Martin Shkreli: Australian boys recreate life-saving drug

BBC News - ‎2 hours ago‎
The man who sparked outrage last year by hiking the price of a life-saving drug may have met his match in some Australian schoolboys.

House overwhelmingly passes 'Cures' legislation to streamline drug approval

Washington Post - ‎8 hours ago‎
A wide-ranging bill aimed at expediting the development of new medical treatments passed the House decisively Wednesday evening, overcoming criticism from some health policy experts who said it could put unsafe drugs on the market.

Clones of Hunter S. Thompson's private marijuana strain are coming to Colorado weed shops

Washington Post - ‎22 hours ago‎
Journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who so memorably wrote about drifting through Las Vegas with a “car full of marijuana and head full of acid,” is destined for immortality of the cannabis variety.

UK has 'first sexually transmitted Zika'

BBC News - ‎14 hours ago‎
The first likely case of sexual transmission of the Zika virus in the UK has been reported by the authorities. The woman has made a full recovery, and it is thought she had been infected by her partner, who had recently visited a Zika-hit country ...

After months of controversy, Texas will require aborted fetuses to be cremated or buried

Washington Post - ‎Nov 29, 2016‎
After months of fierce opposition from abortion rights advocates and the medical community, Texas will require fetal remains to be cremated or buried instead of disposed in sanitary landfills.

Feeling sleepy? You may be costing the US economy $411 billion

CNBC - ‎15 hours ago‎
For while now, economists have been puzzling over why the global economy has been acting so sluggish. Maybe it's because you are.

A tip sheet for workers and workplaces where pot is legal

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
BOSTON - Changing marijuana laws aren't necessarily making weed more welcome in the workplace. For now, many employers seem to be sticking with their drug testing and personal conduct policies, even in states where recreational marijuana use is ...

Experiments with embryos suggest ways to make 3-parent IVF safer for babies

Los Angeles Times - ‎9 hours ago‎
Nearly 800 children are born in the U.S. each year with genetic diseases caused by mutations in a type of DNA inherited directly from their mothers.

Missouri Ranks in Top 10 for Diabetes

CBS Local - ‎4 hours ago‎
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - An annual study has been released with the latest numbers of diabetes cases in the United States. Missouri makes the top ten on the list.

Health officials: 4 King County patients confirmed to have mumps were vaccinated

KIRO Seattle - ‎39 minutes ago‎
King County health officials say nine patients with confirmed or probable mumps all had been vaccinated in what they are describing as an "emerging outbreak.

Researchers may have 'found' many of China's 30 million missing girls

Washington Post - ‎18 hours ago‎
Academics often talk about between 30 and 60 million “missing girls” in China, apparently killed in the womb or just after birth, thanks to a combination of preference for sons and the country's decades under a repressive one-child policy.

White, rural drug users lack needle exchange programs to prevent HIV infections

Washington Post - ‎Nov 29, 2016‎
Needle-sharing by opiate addicts is placing rural white communities at much greater risk of new HIV infections than ever before, and the United States doesn't have enough syringe programs in place to address the problem, according to a federal report ...

Astronauts develop worse vision after long trips in space, and scientists think they know why

Quartz - ‎Nov 28, 2016‎
Since humans started traveling into space in the 1960s, physiologists have had one big question on their minds: What happens to the human body without gravity?

Fewer People Under the Age of 65 Having Trouble With Medical Bills, Report Finds

ABC News - ‎7 hours ago‎
Fewer people under the age of 65 are being burdened by medical bills, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics.

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University Friends

Butler's 'Trumpism' course description draws backlash

Indianapolis Star - ‎9 hours ago‎
Butler University said it is reviewing its course description practices after it received backlash for a fall 2017 course offering that focused on the election of President Donald Trump.

Guidelines and Policy - Social Media at Your University

Inside Higher Ed (blog) - ‎9 hours ago‎
When you do an advanced Google search for social media policy and/or social media guidelines on either .edu or .ac.uk domains, a lot of results* appear.

Ex-UM health CEO named Oakland University president

The Detroit News - ‎15 hours ago‎
Rochester Hills - Oakland University has named Dr. Ora Hirsch Pescovitz as its seventh president, choosing a pharmaceutical company executive and former University of Michigan hospital leader who is a physician, researcher, administrator and fundraiser.

Congresswomen in Black Sorority Decry Racist Acts at American University

NBC4 Washington - ‎9 hours ago‎
The international president of the historically black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha spoke with News4 about the recent racist displays at American University. Jackie Bensen reports the unversity's security has been called into question due to poor ...

University Presses

New York Times - ‎11 hours ago‎
One of the lessons of NUMBERS AND THE MAKING OF US: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures (Harvard University, $27.95), a fascinating book by the anthropologist Caleb Everett, is that to exoticize the Pirahã (say, by likening them to Borges ...

Florida university to award degree to Trayvon Martin

CNN - ‎16 hours ago‎
The slain Florida teenager -- killed by George Zimmerman five years ago -- will be awarded a posthumous bachelor's degree in aeronautical science from Florida Memorial University. Martin's parents, Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, will accept the ...

University of Akron bans all smoking including e-cigarettes

fox8.com - ‎10 hours ago‎
AKRON, Ohio-- Students at the University of Akron are being reminded that as of July 1, smoking of any kind will not be permitted on campus or at any off-campus university activity. The school will begin enforcing a ban that not only includes ...

Tuition hike proposed for some University of Montana students

The Missoulian - ‎7 hours ago‎
Tuition and fees for students at the University of Montana would jump 13 percent for resident freshmen and sophomores, but those costs at UM also would be equal to Montana State University, unlike the current setup. And, the total annual cost of ...

Baylor University Frat Suspended For “Mexican-Themed” Party

PEOPLE.com - ‎10 hours ago‎
The members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at Baylor University faced repercussions for throwing a “Mexican-themed” party for Cinco de Mayo.

University of Iowa must pay $1.4 million to Jane Meyer

The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines - ‎11 hours ago‎
Finding the University of Iowa discriminated against a former athletics administrator based on her gender and sexual orientation, a Polk County jury Thursday awarded Jane Meyer $1.43 million, according to her legal team.

University of Texas stabbing victim asked student to call his mom

New York Daily News - ‎13 hours ago‎
The victim of a stabbing spree at the University of Texas asked a student he didn't know to call his mom before he died Monday.

University of Arizona seniors behind viral red swimsuit giveaway

AZCentral.com - ‎7 hours ago‎
The company's founders, University of Arizona seniors Alan Alchalel and Brady Silverwood, now seem to be scrambling to figure out how to make the deal happen.

A Public University Acquires A Big For-Profit, And Raises Big Questions

NPR - ‎22 hours ago‎
In a move that's being called "bold" and "out of the blue," Indiana's Purdue University is acquiring the for-profit Kaplan University. In announcing the deal last week, Purdue President Mitch Daniels said it was designed to open the university up to a ...

Carlow University students mourn freshman who died in fall from balcony

Tribune-Review - ‎8 hours ago‎
A somber mood permeated Carlow University's Oakland campus Thursday, a day after the death of freshman Dalton Bacco. On the sidewalk outside the student center, bouquets of yellow, pink and blue flowers propped up alongside a few candles served as ...

Noose Found Inside University of Maryland Fraternity House

U.S. News & World Report - ‎18 hours ago‎
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - Authorities at the University of Maryland are investigating a noose discovered in a fraternity house.

Potemkin Universities

National Review - ‎May 3, 2017‎
The university faces crises almost everywhere of student debt, university finances, free expression, and the very quality and value of a university education. Take free speech. Without freedom of expression, there can be no university. But if the ...

Student comes up with 'ingenious' way to cheat in university exams

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎12 hours ago‎
It may sound like something used by one of Harry Potter's wayward classmates at Hogwarts, but “invisible ink” has now been revealed by the university ombudsman as the latest university exam scam. According to the latest annual report by the Office of ...

Student Arrested After Crawling Into a Duct to Steal an Exam

New York Times - ‎12 hours ago‎
The Multidisciplinary Science Building at the University of Kentucky, where officials said two students tried to steal an exam from an instructor's office.

Salaries of 245 senior university staff are leaked

Devon Live - ‎1 hour ago‎
"The Information Commissioner was satisfied with the steps taken by the university to address the unauthorised disclosure and took no further action.

Arizona House OKs university bonding, Senate up next

ABC15 Arizona - ‎4 hours ago‎
The focus immediately returned to the Senate, where deal-cutting to gain support from conservative Republicans for the $1 billion university bonding program is yet to be tested with a vote. But it was clear the Legislature was moving closer to passing