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Obama Offers New Accommodations on Birth Control
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will offer a new accommodation to religious nonprofits that object to covering birth control for their employees. The measure allows those groups to notify...
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Health Matters: Public Transportation may be Healthier for your Waistline
It may not hurt to leave the car at home and try a different way to commute to work, in fact your waistline may thank you for it. A recent study looked at thousands of people in the United Kingdom and...
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Pediatricians: Later start times for Schools
CHICAGO (AP) — Pediatricians have a new prescription for schools: later start times for teens. Delaying the start of the school day until at least 8:30 a.m. would help curb their lack of sleep, which...
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DEA Cracking Down On Prescription Drug Abuse
The drug enforcement agency is cracking down on prescription drug abuse. Addiction and death from prescription painkillers has become an epidemic, so the DEA is tightening the reins on how people get...
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Health Matters: You Don’t Snooze, You lose
The American Academy of pediatrics is recommending that high school and middle school students start classes later in the morning to ensure the best possible rest. The organization says older students...
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This Weekend Fox Fit Fix
Here's what's going on this weekend in tonight's Fox Fit fix. The firefly 10K is this Saturday night at 8 p.m. at the Mission hike and bike trails. There is still time to sign up at valley running co...
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Health Matters: Experimental Ebola Vaccine
The Ebola outbreak has killed 1,500 people in West Africa, but starting next week federal researchers will begin using an experimental vaccine to potentially prevent the virus. According to the...
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President Obama on Ebola Virus: “Stopping This Disease Won’t Be Easy”
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is proving to be much worse than expected and the CDC is alarming officials. Yet another missionary doctor in Monrovia has tested positive for Ebola and is now in...
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New Ebola Fears
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An ill doctor in southern Nigeria exposed dozens of people to the Ebola virus by continuing to treat patients before his death, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday as...
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Democrats borrow a GOP Idea on health care
WASHINGTON (AP) â Borrowing a Republican idea, a group including former senior Obama and Clinton advisers is unveiling a novel proposal to let states take the lead in controlling health costs....
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Health Matters: Popular Diets
So what is the best diet to lose those extra pounds, going low-carb or low-fat? When it comes to weight loss, a recent study published in the American medical association journal found that there is no...
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Farmers having persistent problem with drift
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The cloud of insecticide that drifted from a neighbor's corn field onto the asparagus on Andrew and Melissa Dunham's central Iowa farm cast a shadow over their organic vegetable...
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HE-72MO Respiratory Virus CDC-Not A Lot Know About This Virus
HE-71MO respiratory virus/CDC-seeing clusters enteroviruses, which can cause mild to severe colds, are sending hundreds of children to hospitals across the Midwest. So far, ten states have contacted...
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Raising Awareness On Suicide
It's suicide prevention week. The American foundation for suicide prevention says someone attempts to kill themselves every minute. Someone dies by suicide every thirteen-point seven minutes every day....
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Student with Ebola Recovers
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Senegalese doctor says the student who brought Ebola to the West African country has recovered. The young man from Guinea arrived in Senegal in August and sought medical care,...
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Memorial Runs For This Weekend
Here's what's going on this weekend in tonight's Fox fit fix. The 9-11 never forget memorial run is this Saturday September 13th at the mission hike and bike trails. The event is being put on by the...
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Silicon Valley struggles with FDA
WASHINGTON (AP) — From Apple's new smartwatch that tracks heartbeats to contact lenses that measure blood sugar — Silicon Valley is pouring billions into gadgets and apps designed to transform health...
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Cuba sends Medical Help to fight Ebola
LONDON (AP) — Cuba's health ministry said Friday it is sending more than 160 health workers to help stop the raging Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, providing a much-needed injection of medical...
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Venezuela’s newest shortage: breast implants
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's chronic shortages have begun to encroach on a cultural cornerstone: the boob job. Beauty-obsessed Venezuelans face a scarcity of brand-name breast implants, and...
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UN: Nearly $1 billion needed now to stop Ebola
GENEVA (AP) — The number of Ebola cases in West Africa could start doubling every three weeks and it could end up costing nearly $1 billion to contain the crisis, the World Health Organization warned...
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