Medical
Millennials are killing cigarettes: Teenagers prefer vaping and weed
Almost 28% of 10th-graders had used an illicit drug, and 37.7% of them had alcohol in the past year. In all, approximately 50,000 students in about 420 public and private secondary schools are surveyed annually. "The decline in both the misuse and perceived availability of opioid medications may reflect recent public health initiatives to discourage opioid misuse to address this crisis", said Dr. [Full Article...]
World Bank paints a positive picture of health service in South Africa
Target 3.8 of SDG 3 - achieving universal health coverage (UHC), including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all - is the key to attaining the entire goal as well as the health-related targets of other SDGs. [Full Article...]
United Kingdom baby born with her heart outside her body and lives
Most babies born with this condition do not survive although there have been some cases in which surgery has been successful. "I'm now confident she won't wear it so I'm going to donate it to the hospital". "I genuinely didn't think my baby would survive". Babies born with the condition - one estimate is five to eight per million - have less than a 10% chance of survival. [Full Article...]
Five Takeaways - Leafs at Wild
The Wild was tight defensively, mimicking the air-tight performance by goalie Alex Stalock between the pipes. "Any time you can get the net more it is fun and you just hopefully can kind of keep it rolling", said Stalock, whose shutout was his first in the National Hockey League since March 2, 2015. [Full Article...]
Sells 714082 Shares of Southwest Airlines Company (LUV)
The stock increased 0.17% or $0.11 during the last trading session, reaching $63.43. About 1.72 million shares traded. Southwest Airlines Company (NYSE: LUV ) Director John T. The stock has "Overweight" rating by Atlantic Securities on Thursday, December 14. Since October 17, 2017, it had 0 insider buys, and 1 sale for $1,886 activity. [Full Article...]
Curb Your Enthusiasm Returning for Season 10
The gap between season 8 and season 9 was six full years. "As I've said many times", Mr. David said in a statement , reported People, "when one has the opportunity to annoy someone, one should do so". Why did the announcement for another season happen so relatively quickly this time around? Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman, J.B. Smoove, Cheryl Hines, Richard Lewis, Bob Einstein, Ted Danson and Mar... [Full Article...]
Should fantasy football owners in the playoffs start Aaron Rodgers?
Aaron Rodgers' clavicle may be just 80 percent healed , but he should look 100 percent on Sunday against the Carolina Panthers . "It's been a long road from that day to this, but I'm happy to say I've been medically cleared to return", Rodgers said on his official Instagram account. [Full Article...]
France's Macron says world is losing battle against climate change
Nicholas Hulot, minister for ecological and social transition, applauded these efforts and spoke of a "new green deal" to make renewable energies more competitive than fossil fuels, and that "constraint is not the enemy of creativity, it is the condition for it". [Full Article...]