Ho-Ho-Horrible: Why We're So Bad at Choosing Good Gifts
Many of us recognize that familiar feeling of eagerly tearing open a carefully wrapped gift box only to reveal a terrible woolen sweater, a creepy figurine with vacant eyes or a set of crystal “knife rests” for the dinner table. But what makes for a good gift? The answer is very different, depending on whether you ask the gift giver or receiver. A study published this month in Current Directions in Psychological Science highlights the disconnect between the gifts we actually want and the ones we..>> view originalWoman has baby using ovary tissue frozen at 9 years old
When she was 9 years old, Moaza Al Matrooshi found out she would need chemotherapy in order to receive a bone-marrow transplant and treat a potentially fatal blood disorder.Her family worried the chemotherapy would cause her to become infertile, so they made a decision that was considerably rare at the time: they removed her right ovary and froze the tissue. On Tuesday, about 15 years later, Al Matrooshi, of Dubai, gave birth to a healthy baby at London's Portland Hospital for Women and Childr..>> view originalWhat should we make of John Bel Edwards' high approval ratings?
On Saturday (Dec. 10), Democrat Foster Campbell lost the U.S. Senate race to Republican State Treasurer John Kennedy by 23 points. Louisiana voters appeared to send a pretty clear message. They were overwhelmingly interested in electing a conservative Republican over any Democrat, even one that is conservative on some social issues. In fact, voters have sent that exact same message in every statewide election over the past eight years -- with one notable exception. Gov. John Bel Edwards won th..>> view originalPro-Choice Advocates Hail Federal Judge's Order Temporarily Blocking Texas Fetal Burial Rule
A pro-choice advocacy group that is the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against a controversial rule in Texas that would have required fetal tissue to be buried resulting from the circumstances of many miscarriages and abortions hailed a judge's ...>> view originalAuction Offering Coffee With Ivanka Trump Is Canceled
Photo Ivanka Trump at a presidential debate in Las Vegas in October. Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times WASHINGTON — An auction offering a 45-minute private meeting with Ivanka Trump in exchange for a charitable donation was abruptly canceled Friday after questions were raised about the process by ethics experts, who said it appeared to offer bidders special access to the next first family.The auction had been running for 10 days, drawing 28 bids, the highest of which..>> view originalObama administration abandons Medicare drug payment experiment
December 16 at 5:22 PM HEALTH Drug payment plan experiment dropped The Obama administration has suddenly decided to abandon proposed experiments aimed at changing how Medicare pays for prescription drugs administered in doctors’ offices or hospital outpatient departments — an attempt to improve care and help slow spending on expensive medicines. The experiment’s focus on new drug payment methods in Medicare’s Part B — for medicine to treat cancers or injectable antibiotics, for example — was..>> view original1 in 8 airline pilots may be clinically depressed
Hundreds of commercial airline pilots worldwide may be flying with untreated depression because they fear being grounded or losing their jobs, a new survey suggests.The anonymous survey of about 1,850 pilots from more than 50 countries found that 14 percent of pilots who had worked within the past week had symptoms of depression. Four percent of pilots reported having suicidal thoughts within the past two weeks.Related: The world's safest airlines 21 PHOTOS The World's Safest Airlines See G..>> view originalDrug overdose deaths increased by 33-percent in past 5 years
CONCORD, N.H. – Drug overdose deaths have increased by 33 percent in the past five years across the country, with some states seeing jumps of nearly 200 percent. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 states saw increases in overdose deaths resulting from the abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, a class of drugs known as opioids. New Hampshire saw a 191 percent increase while North Dakota, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine had death rates jump by ..>> view originalRate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported
JUDY WOODRUFF: Black lung disease is well known for causing the deaths of thousands of American coal miners over decades. Now, a new report finds that miners may be suffering from the most advanced form of the disease at a rate ten times higher than what the U.S. government has reported. Hari Sreenivasan in our New York studios has the story. HARI SREENIVASAN: For the past five years, the government has reported just under 100 cases of complicated black lung disease, which is also called progr..>> view original
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
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