Medical
Elizabeth Warren relies on small donors to raise $24.6 million
Bernie Sanders , posted during the 3rd quarter. Warren's marketing campaign claimed its quarterly totals arrived from 509,000 donors giving 943,000 donations. The White House hopefuls who have relied on frequent high-dollar fundraisers reported numbers that lag behind Sanders and Warren. She dismissed concerns that Democrats are falling behind. [Full Article...]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren targets 'excessive lobbying' with new tax plan
Under the Massachusetts Democrat's proposal - the latest in a slew of calls for higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy - companies that spend between $500,000 and $1 million per year on lobbying would be required to pay a 35 percent tax. [Full Article...]
NY court blocks vaping ban in victory for flavored e-cig companies
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, last month, moved to ban flavored tobacco used in vaping products amid public health concerns and illnesses linked to vaping. The Appellate Division in the ruling blocked the state from enforcing the ban until a broader injunction motion is decided at the trial level. [Full Article...]
Over 5 million Pakistani children to be obese by 2030
In absolute terms, the U.S. is expected to have 17 million obese children by 2030, the largest number after China and India . "Most people don't want to have excess weight but there shouldn't be a stigma against the individual". "People are expending less energy, becoming more sedentary and adopting a Western-style diet that's high in sugar, oil, starch and fat", said Dr Tim Lobstein, directo... [Full Article...]
There will be 250 million obese kids by 2030
However, the report says none of the participating countries would meet it-four out of five of them actually have a less than 10% chance of doing so. The number of obese children is predicted to soar exponentially as governments fail to adopt adequate policies to protect children's health in the face of commercial interests, according to a new report. [Full Article...]
Tetraplegic man walks using mind-controlled exoskeleton
Scientists have said that the technology is an experimental treatment for now, but once improved, it could have the potential to improve patients' lives. Electrode grids collected the man's brain signals and transmitted them to a decoding algorithm, which translated the signals into movements and commanded a robotic exoskeleton to complete them. [Full Article...]
Dads-to-be must stop drinking 6 months before conception
Alcohol is a known teratogen - substance that may cause birth defects by having a toxic effect on an embryo or foetus. The most common type of birth defect and among the biggest perinatal killers, these conditions affect almost 1 percent of babies in the U.S. [Full Article...]
Red meat and sausages may not cause cancer
In a comment on the Annals of Internal Medicine website, Public Health Officer Henning Ansor, of the Public Health Department in Santa Barbara County in the USA, said: "For the Annals to publish this article (and for the authors to even write it without concern for the environmental effects of food choices) shows, to what extent we as physicians, are out of touch with the real world". [Full Article...]