Doctors Hail China's Pledge to Stop Harvesting Inmate Organs and other top stories.

• Doctors Hail China's Pledge to Stop Harvesting Inmate Organs

  

  BEIJING — Surgeons from around the world gathered at a conference in Beijing on Monday in China's latest effort to fight persistent skepticism about whether its hospitals have stopped performing transplants with the organs of executed prisoners.Doctors from the World Health Organization and the Montreal-based Transplantation Society who were invited to the conference by China praised Chinese officials for reforms they have made in the transplant system, including a ban put in place last year..

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• Kansas AG studies impact of Colorado marijuana on his state

  

  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Early results from a survey of law enforcement agencies conducted by the Kansas attorney general suggest legal Colorado marijuana is having a big impact on Kansas, but it may not be all negative. Attorney General Derek Schmidt received responses from 390 Kansas law enforcement agencies and district attorneys indicating that less marijuana is being confiscated, but it's much higher in potency than pot smuggled in from Mexico. Survey results also show that the legal system ha..

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• Prescription drug take back day to be held in Massachusetts

  

  AMHERST, Mass. (AP) - Unwanted or out-of-date prescription drugs can be dropped off at locations throughout central and western Massachusetts next weekend.A National Prescription Drug Take Back Day will be held on Oct. 22 in Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester counties.The goal is to get drugs out of the reach of young people and others who could misuse them, and to properly dispose of them.So far, more than 13 tons of unwanted drugs have been collected at local “take back” days and in two dozen p..

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• Is 20-Something Too Late For A Guy To Get The HPV Vaccine?

  

  Enlarge this image WFYI's Jake Harper reports health stories for Side Effects Public Media in Indianapolis. His newest health anxiety stems from the human papillomavirus, or HPV. Brian Paul/Side Effects Public Media hide caption toggle caption Brian Paul/Side Effects Public Media WFYI's Jake Harper reports health stories f..

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• Male survivors remind us that men get breast cancer, too

  

  Male Breast Cancer Awareness week reminds us that men have breasts - and breast cancer - too. (Amanda Rohde/Getty Images/iStockphoto). BY Nicole Lyn Pesce. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Monday, October 17, 2016, 6:00 AM. Newsflash – men have ...

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• California's under-21 smoking ban could be a national test case

  

  California this year became the second state after Hawaii to raise its minimum smoking age to 21. When the law took effect in June, state public health officials declared it would “literally be a life-saving measure.”But experts say it’s too soon to know whether the law will live up to such claims, and there are few studies from elsewhere pointing the way. “We’re going to have to let the policy settle in,” said Dr. Stanton Glantz, a UC San Francisco professor who studies tobacco policies.With ..

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• Biden's final 'cancer moonshot' report outlines progress and hurdles

  

  Vice President Biden is expected to tell President Obama on Monday that the administration’s “cancer moonshot” effort infused new urgency in the fight against the disease but that formidable challenges remain, including a lack of coordination among researchers, an “antiquated” funding culture and unacceptably slow dissemination of important information about new treatments. The final moonshot report, which Biden is scheduled to deliver in an Oval Office meeting, lists an array of promising new ..

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• Can the rare, tiny Key deer survive a flesh-eating worm?

  

  As the rutting season for the planet’s lone surviving herd of Key deer got underway on Big Pine in late August, staff at the national refuge that manages the toy-sized animals started to notice something strange: the bucks, often wounded on the head and neck during the mating ritual, were turning up with gaping, festering wounds.The numbers, and gory injuries, only worsened as the season deepened, leading staff to wonder what new peril faced a fragile herd threatened daily by speeding motorists..

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