Medical
Verify: Can the measles vaccine cause autism?
According to the state health department , as of May 9 there were 50 cases, of whom 45 were unvaccinated. The health department reported a total of 41 confirmed cases since April 11. "Our goal for measles control is to protect all the individuals in the state, but for some people, they can't be vaccinated because of health conditions", she said. [Full Article...]
Zinke questions using monument status to save sacred land
KANAB, Utah U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will visit a sweeping southern Utah monument that's been a source of ire for local officials and Republican leaders for two decades. One of Trump's executive orders directs the Interior Department to give a second look to all land monuments that cover more than 100,000 acres and were established since January 1, 1996. [Full Article...]
Senate Dems ask GOP to drop their plan to repeal 'Obamacare'
In addition, a third of the counties in the country have one insurer or less on the ACA health-care exchange, he said , repeating a claim President Trump has made. HICKENLOOPER: Well, these are rural counties. But they now have the most to lose. This is something - they've been paying disproportionately higher insurance premiums for decades. [Full Article...]
Congress Approves Stopgap Spending Bill to Avert Shutdown
Fiscal 2017 began at the end of September, but CR's have become the norm in Congress. Lawmakers would nearly certainly have agreed to a full-year spending deal in the fall, but at Trump's request, GOP leadership punted to give the new administration a chance to add its stamp. [Full Article...]
State senator's absence means slowdown on budget bills
But, Republicans are already taking steps to send their preferred budget bills to the governor rather than continue talks. The two sides had been meeting for more than a week to chip away at a compromise, and Republican leaders had expressed little interest in sending Dayton their own budget bills for a sure veto. [Full Article...]
FREE Häagen-Dazs cone on Tuesday
Before you get a brain freeze, here are the deets: Haagen-Dazs is hooking you up with a free cone on May 9 from a 4 p.m.to 8 p.m.at stores nationwide. "One-third of the world's crops depend on pollinators such as honey bees, as do one-third of Haagen-Dazs' ice cream flavors", Kerry McLaughlin, Haagen-Dazs brand content and strategy lead, said in a press release . [Full Article...]
Dove Launch New 'Real Body' Bottles And Twitter Isn't Feeling The Love
Over the years, the company has regularly been lauded for its efforts to question our society's severe and pretty much unattainable beauty standards. A new Dove soap advertisement has quickly sparked ridicule online. Perhaps Dove forgot that the very point of inclusion is to speak to women of all different shapes and sizes in the same way, and not based on what their bodies look like? "The ... [Full Article...]
Maharashtra bans junk food in state school canteens
After the hullabaloo around the proposed fat tax , the Maharashtra government has taken some decisive steps; its banned the sale of junk food in school canteens. The move came in a government resolution issued late on Monday by the state Education Department implementing the December 2014 circular of the Union Women & Child Development Ministry meant to encourage students consumer healthy, natura... [Full Article...]