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Americans increasingly see people with mental illness as a violent threat despite a lack of evidence, leading many to support coerced treatment for such people.
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A settlement in the opioid trial known as MDL 2804 would be the most complex in U.S. history, with a price tag exceeding $100 billion. Where would the money go?
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Leonov almost didn’t make it back to his capsule
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Chemical companies agreed not to fight California’s ban of Chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to learning disabilities.
John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries.
When clinical trials won out over observational research, it pushed a lot of accepted nutritional wisdom off its pedestal.
The Nobel Prize in physics is given to Canadian American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz.
A new study finds massive waste in U.S. healthcare and asks why no one cares enough to eradicate it.
Health
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1,306 U.S. infants were born with syphilis in 2018, even though the disease is easy to prevent. 78 of those babies were stillborn, and 16 died after birth.
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Long-term exposure to e-cigarette vapor that contains nicotine greatly increased the risk of tumor growth, according to a yearlong study in mice.
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Men vastly outnumber women as perpetrators of mass shootings. Toxic masculinity is part of the reason why, experts say.
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About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police. That risk is 2.5 times higher than for white men, new research shows.
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A settlement in the opioid trial known as MDL 2804 would be the most complex in U.S. history, with a price tag exceeding $100 billion. Where would the money go?
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The rate at which young Americans took their own lives reached a high-water mark in 2017, driven by a sharp rise in suicides among older teenage boys, according to new research.
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Americans increasingly see people with mental illness as a violent threat despite a lack of evidence, leading many to support coerced treatment for such people.
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The Department of Homeland Security stored sensitive data from BioWatch on an insecure website where it was vulnerable to attacks by hackers, records show.
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An environmental group on Tuesday petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to designate the western Joshua Tree as threatened, a push sure to set off battles with desert developers.
Los Angeles arson investigators have not determined the cause of the Saddleridge fire, but they do know where it started.
Nearly 300 drinking water wells and other water sources in California have been found to have traces of man-made chemicals linked to cancer.
A geothermal power company says it can make California’s Salton Sea the first major source of U.S. lithium production.
The Marshall Islands, a key U.S. ally in the central Pacific, has declared a national climate crisis because of the mounting risk of sea-level rise.
Jane Fonda was seen on social media handcuffed and being escorted by police after her arrest Friday outside the U.S. Capitol.
Nearly 600 former EPA officials have called for an investigation into President Trump’s authority in response to threats from EPA targeting California.
Filmmaker Ali Greer and teacher/chef Eric Tomassini are juggling full-time careers while living their dream of running the Avenue 33 Farm, an urban farm carved into the steep acre behind their Lincoln Heights home, just minutes from downtown L.A.
California utilities are woefully behind on maintenance and new power systems to prevent long-term blackouts.
Medicine
The rate of twin births apparently peaked in 2014 and has fallen 4% since. In 2018, the rate hit its lowest point in a decade, the CDC reported Thursday.
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Handgun buyers with drunk driving convictions on their records were more likely to go on to be arrested for a violent crime than were buyers with clean records.
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Red and processed meats are linked to cancer and heart disease. But if you eat it in moderation, there may be no benefit to cutting back, some researchers say.
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U.S. adults made modest improvements in their diets in recent years but still eat too many low-quality carbohydrates and too much saturated fat.
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With IVIG in short supply, hospitals are left to make tough choices about who receives it. The expensive treatment may be a victim of its own widening use.
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A study suggests a potentially effective way to improve the cardiovascular health of poor and minority Americans: Give them a daily pill with low doses of several heart medicines.
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The solar system has a new winner in the moon department.
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to William Kaelin Jr., Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza for work on how cells use oxygen.
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Global warming doesn’t make it easy for birds to survive in the Mojave Desert, but what exactly does them in? A lack of water to cool themselves down.
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Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem. Turns out, rubber particles from car tires might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters, according to the most comprehensive study to date.
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In just 46 days, over 100 tobacco advocates helped nix the ban on flavored e-cigarettes that might have prevented addiction in teens. Here’s how.
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Improving habitat connectivity may be a powerful tool for restoring lost plant biodiversity in fragmented ecosystems, a nearly two-decade study shows.
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A giant planet discovered around a tiny star is putting a new spin on how planets form. In a surprise to scientists, it seems to have arisen straight from gas.
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Greg Manteufel lost parts of his arms and legs, as well as the skin of his nose and part of his upper lip. The cause was capnocytophaga, a germ from his dog’s mouth or from another dog he encountered.
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Billionaire California agriculture titans Stewart and Lynda Resnick have donated $750 million to Caltech for climate change research.
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Public health experts say the marketing and sustained popularity of menthol cigarettes provide a window into the playbook e-cigarette companies could be using when it comes to selling flavored nicotine.
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Small vessels found in the graves of ancient infants were some of the world’s oldest baby bottles. New research shows they once contained milk from animals.
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