Saturday, February 11, 2017

Most Americans want government to keep funding Planned Parenthood, Obamacare: poll and other top stories.

  • Most Americans want government to keep funding Planned Parenthood, Obamacare: poll

    Most Americans want government to keep funding Planned Parenthood, Obamacare: poll
    President Donald Trump is working hard with Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare — but a new poll strongly suggests the American people don’t want these things to happen.“Most American voters are satisfied with the quality and cost of their healthcare and say Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be fixed, but not repealed,” announced Quinnipiac University in a press release on Friday. The survey also found that an overwhelming majority of voters — 84 percent ..
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  • Trump administration backtracks part way on ACA enrollment outreach

    Trump administration backtracks part way on ACA enrollment outreach
    The Trump administration is now allowing some ads and outreach to continue through the final days of 2017 enrollment for Affordable Care Act health coverage. (Healthcare.gov/Healthcare.gov) The Trump administration on Friday partly retracted a directive it had issued less than 24 hours earlier to halt all advertising and other outreach activities aimed at encouraging consumers to buy health plans for 2017 during the final days of enrollment under the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces. Acc..
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  • Al Gore puts the CDC's health and climate conference back on track — minus the CDC

    Al Gore puts the CDC's health and climate conference back on track — minus the CDC
    An abruptly postponed conference on climate change and its effects on human health is going to take place after all — thanks to Al Gore.But there’s a caveat: The conference’s original sponsor — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — won’t be involved. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Assn., told the Washington Post that the former vice president called him up after the news broke of the conference’s postponement and said, “Let’s make this thing happe..
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  • France Bans Free Soda Refills in Attack on Obesity

    France Bans Free Soda Refills in Attack on Obesity
    Photo A soft drink bottling operation in Clamart, France, near Paris. Credit Lionel Bonaventure/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images In 2004, France banned vending machines from schools. In 2011, it limited servings of french fries to once a week in school cafeterias. A year later, it imposed a “soda tax.” On Friday, the government said no restaurants can offer free refills of sodas and other sugary drinks. The new regulation is the latest attempt to tackle what the gov..
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  • Throw out homeopathic teething tablets with belladonna, FDA says

    Throw out homeopathic teething tablets with belladonna, FDA says
    Standard Homeopathic Co., the Los Angeles-based maker of Hyland's, discontinued its product October 7. "We discontinued it because we are committed to our moms and our dads who choose to trust us to put medicines in their young infants' mouths, and we didn't want to put them in a place between the FDA warning and us saying the product was safe and having to decide who to trust," said Mary C. Borneman, a spokeswoman for Hyland's.Homeopathic teething tablets, which have been around since the early..
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  • Awash in overdoses, Seattle creates safe sites for addicts to inject illegal drugs

    Awash in overdoses, Seattle creates safe sites for addicts to inject illegal drugs
    Officials in Seattle on Friday approved the nation’s first “safe-injection” sites for users of heroin and other illegal drugs, calling the move a drastic but necessary response to an epidemic of addiction that is claiming tens of thousands of lives each year. The sites — which offer addicts clean needles, medical supervision and quick access to drugs that reverse the effects of an overdose — have long been popular in Europe. Now, with the U.S. death toll rising, the idea is gaining traction in ..
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Lenovo's Y520 and Y720 laptops launch new 'Legion' brand of gaming hardware .Dell embraces the two-in-one trend with new XPS 13 convertible .
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