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Flint, Michigan, pipe-replacement cost nearly doubles: newspaper
(Reuters) – The cost of replacing water lines in Flint, Michigan, has nearly doubled amid a health crisis from high lead levels in drinking water, the Detroit Free Press reported on Saturday. The average cost for replacing a service water line in Flint through a pilot project that ended this month was $7,500, the newspaper…
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Flint, Michigan, pipe-replacement cost nearly doubles: newspaper
(Reuters) – The cost of replacing water lines in Flint, Michigan, has nearly doubled amid a health crisis from high lead levels in drinking water, the Detroit Free Press reported on Saturday. The average cost for replacing a service water line in Flint through a pilot project that ended this month was $7,500, the newspaper…
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Canada’s Trudeau defends assisted suicide bill as deadline nears
By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – A bill legalizing medically-assisted suicide in Canada strikes the right balance between defending fundamental freedoms and protecting against abuses, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday, predicting confusion if it is not approved. The draft legislation, introduced by Trudeau's Liberal government in April, would allow people with incurable…
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Storing babies’ blood samples pits privacy versus science
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two-day-old Ellie Bailey squirms in a hospital bassinet and cries as her tiny left heel is squeezed and then pricked with a needle to draw a blood sample. An Indianapolis hospital technician quickly saturates six circles on a special filter card with the child's blood.
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Many older black women miss out on targeted breast cancer drug
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Older black women with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–positive breast cancer are less likely than their white peers to receive targeted therapy with trastuzumab (Herceptin), a U.S. study suggests. When researchers examined data from Medicare, the U.S. health program for people over age 65, they found just…
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10 Common Brain Health and Brain Training Myths, Debunked
Given all the interest in–and confusion around—the topics of brain training, neuroplasticity and brain health, let's debunk ten myths that remain surprisingly popular.MYTH 1. Genes determine the fate of our brains. Fact: Lifelong brain plasticity means that our lifestyles and behaviors play a significant role in how our brains (and…
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Ex-NFL star Gault is fined in SEC fraud case, will appeal
Willie Gault, the former National Football League wide receiver and Olympic sprinter, was ordered to pay $206,571 to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit over his role in a scheme to inflate the stock price of a heart-monitoring device maker. U.S. District Judge James Selna of the Santa Ana, California federal court ordered…
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Campbell Soup to switch to BPA-free cans by 2017
(Reuters) – Campbell Soup Co , the world's largest soup maker, said it would completely switch to cans that do not use the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) for their linings in North America by the middle of 2017.
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Campbell Soup to switch to BPA-free cans by 2017
(Reuters) – Campbell Soup Co , the world's largest soup maker, said it would completely switch to cans that do not use the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) for their linings in North America by the middle of 2017.
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For low-income smokers, calling a quitline may cost too much
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – Telephone quitlines offer free and effective treatment for tobacco dependence, but for low-income smokers who only have a cell phone and don’t have unlimited minutes, calls to the quitline may take a substantial portion of their cell minutes for the month, according to a new study. The researchers didn’t…