by Research Team | Jun 20, 2015 | Health News
Hawaii’s governor has signed a bill to make his state the first to raise the legal smoking age to 21. The measure aims to prevent adolescents from smoking, buying or possessing both traditional and electronic cigarettes. Gov. David Ige signed it Friday.
by Research Team | Jun 20, 2015 | Health News
The families of surrogate children who have been effectively denied French citizenship have gone to the country’s highest court to challenge the law denying birth certificates for babies born abroad. Friday’s case could change how surrogate births are...
by Research Team | Jun 20, 2015 | Health News
Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus were recently netted in Nuevo, prompting health officials today to remind residents to take precautions this summer. According to the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health, a state-run lab confirmed that mosquito...
by Research Team | Jun 20, 2015 | Health News
Filmmaker Evan Briggs had spent a long time thinking about aging in America, our relationship to the elderly and how dysfunctional it seemed. “What is it about our value system that makes it so these people don’t really have a place here anymore after a...
by Research Team | Jun 19, 2015 | Health News
The humble house call is being put to the test to see if it can improve care and cut costs for some of Medicare’s frailest patients – and new data suggests it can work. Medicare announced Thursday that it saved more than $25 million in the first year of a...
