HEALTH AND SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

by ECM | October 25, 2016 6:35 pm

 

East County News Service

October 25, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) — Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting-edge news that could impact your health and our future.

• Meet the baby who was born twice[1] (CNN)
• Pediatricians Release New Guidance for Preventing Sudden Infant Deaths[2] (NPR)
• More than half a million heart surgery patients at risk of deadly infection[3] (CNN)
• Researchers tackle metastatic breast cancer[4] (CBS)
• Brain Implant Restores Sense of Touch to Paralyzed Man[5] (NPR)
• Why Is the News About TB So Bad?[6] (NPR)
• Healthy mice from lab-grown eggs[7] (BBC)
• NPR Poll: Are Parents Overrating the Quality of Child Care?[8] (NPR)

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• ‘Smart’ home devices used as weapons in website attack[9] (BBC)
• Companies urged to use multiple vendors in wake of cyber attack[10] (Reuters)
• Widespread cyberattacks take down sites worldwide[11] (CNN)
• China launches longest manned space mission[12] (Reuters)
• The Universe Has Almost 10 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought[13]
• Great Barrier Reef pronounced dead by scientists[14] (Outside Online)
• UK spy agencies broke privacy rules says tribunal[15] (BBC)
• DOJ Uses Vague Court Request to Try to Demand People Unlock Any Fingerprint-Locked Phones[16] (Reason)
• Police Facial Recognition Databases Log About Half of Americans[17] (NPR)
• In insurance Big Data could lower rates for optimistic tweeters[18] (Reuters)
• The rise of ‘citizen astronomers’: An era of new discoveries and collaboration[19] (CS Monitor)

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Meet the baby who was born twice[20] (CNN)

Baby removed from womb for surgery, then returned.

Pediatricians Release New Guidance For Preventing Sudden Infant Deaths[21] (NPR)

Infants should sleep in the same room as their parents for the first six months of their lives, and ideally, the entire first year. That’s a key recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

More than half a million heart surgery patients at risk of deadly infection[3] (CNN)

More than half a million patients who had open-heart surgery in the United States in the past several years could be at risk for a deadly bacterial infection linked to a device used during their operations, federal health officials said Thursday.  Although rare, such infections may cause serious illness or death. The infection is particularly insidious because it is difficult to detect. Patients may not develop symptoms or signs for months after initial exposure.

Researchers tackle metastatic breast cancer[4] (CBS)

When Miriam Slome was diagnosed with stage 4, or metastatic, breast cancer[22] two years ago, it had spread to her bone marrow, abdomen and ovaries…Slome is on a different drug, approved just last year, that inhibits tumor growth for certain types of metastatic breast cancer. Right now, she has no detectable level of cancer. 

Brain Implant Restores Sense of Touch to Paralyzed Man[5] (NPR)

A mind-controlled robotic arm has pressure sensors in each fingertip that send signals directly to a paralyzed man’s brain. It’s still experimental, but could eventually help thousands, engineers say.

Why Is the News About TB So Bad?[6] (NPR)

A report from the World Health Organization shows that it’s not a disease of the past — it’s a disease of the present and likely to be a continuing problem in the future.

Healthy mice from lab-grown eggs[7] (BBC)

Japanese scientists say they have created healthy baby mice from eggs they made entirely in the lab using a sample of mouse skin cells.

NPR Poll: Are Parents Overrating the Quality of Child Care?[8] (NPR)

Almost all parents rate their child care as very good or excellent, according to a new NPR poll. But researchers say that’s off base, and that just 10 percent of child care is high quality.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

‘Smart’ home devices used as weapons in website attack[9](BBC)

Hackers used internet-connected home devices, such as printers and web cameras, to attack popular websites on Friday, security analysts say.

Companies urged to use multiple vendors in wake of cyber attack[10] (Reuters)

Companies can reduce the risk from the type of cyber attack that took out major websites on Friday by using multiple vendors for the critical internet service known as a domain name service, or DNS, companies and security experts said on Sunday.

Widespread cyberattacks take down sites worldwide[11] (CNN)

A number of popular websites like Twitter and Netflix went down for some users on Friday in a massive cyberattack with international reach. Affected sites included Twitter (TWTR[23], Tech30[24]), Etsy (ETSY[25]), Github, Vox, Spotify, Airbnb, Netflix (NFLX[26], Tech30[24]) and Reddit.

China launches longest manned space mission [27](Reuters)

China launched its longest manned space mission on Monday, sending two astronauts into orbit to spend a month aboard a space laboratory that is part of a broader plan to have a permanent manned space station in service around 2022.

The Universe Has Almost 10 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought[13]

A new analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data[28] finds there are almost 10 times more galaxies in the universe than we once thought there were — about 2 trillion of them, up from about 200 billion.

Great Barrier Reef pronounced dead by scientists[14](Outside Online)

The Great Barrier Reef of Australia passed away in 2016 after a long illness. It was 25 million years old.

UK spy agencies broke privacy rules says tribunal[15] (BBC)

Spy agencies breached privacy rules when they collected bulk data about UK citizens, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal rules.

DOJ Uses Vague Court Request to Try to Demand People Unlock Any Fingerprint-Locked Phones[16] (Reason)

Fun fact about fingerprint lock “Touch ID”[29] system on iPhones or iPads: If its owner hasn’t unlocked his or her device in the past 48 hours, it reverts back to a passcode system.

Police Facial Recognition Databases Log About Half of Americans[17] (NPR)

A new report from Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology says all it takes is a driver’s license to be included in the searchable databases. Rachel Martin talks to co-author Alvaro Bedoya.

In insurance Big Data could lower rates for optimistic tweeters[18] (Reuters)

When people take to Twitter to comment on the great evening they enjoyed with good food and wonderful friends, reducing their monthly insurance bill is probably the last thing on their mind.

The rise of ‘citizen astronomers’: An era of new discoveries and collaboration[19] (CS Monitor)

As non-experts become a source of cosmic understanding, their participation generates fresh questions about the connections between science and democracy.

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