FDA moves to block radioactive food from Japan’s nuclear accident from...
A young boy carries his allotment of food at a shelter after being evacuated from areas around the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant Sunday./AP Photo/Wally Santana Late last night, the U.S. Food...
View ArticleGovernment shutdown could hit some clinical trials
Scientists who enroll patients in clincial trials or develop medical devices could feel a shutdown's effects. /PB PostResearchers at many of Florida’s universities and scientific institutes worried...
View ArticleHeaded to a hookah bar this weekend? Read this first.
The smoke is cool, the clubs cooler, but hookah smoke is nasty stuff. /APSomething about hookah smoking seems more benign, more chic, than plain old cigarette smoking. Perhaps it’s the pretty pipes, or...
View ArticleNRA, doctors aim to sway Gov. Rick Scott as gun-speech bill lands on his desk
Guns in the home: None of your doctors' business? /APA bill that would make it illegal for pediatricians and other doctors to ask families about the presence of guns in their homes is attracting...
View ArticleCan we hear them now? Scientists argued for more caution with cell phones in ’06
Cancer causer? /APThe wireless industry has a rather witty retort to the World Health Organization’s decision to label cell phones “possible carnogens” Tuesday, based on the findings of a working group...
View ArticleDoctors’ groups threaten to sue over gun privacy law – UPDATED
In a move that sets up a Second Amendment vs. First Amendment showdown, three Florida physicians’ groups are threatening to sue to block the “Privacy of Firearm Owners” law. At the time they sent the...
View ArticleHow much radiation does your cell phone emit?
The Droid was one of the highest radiation emitters, according to cnet.com. /AP Cell phones sold in the United States cannot reach more than 1.6 watts per kilogram of SAR (Specific Absorption Rate), a...
View ArticleDoctors sue Florida over gun-speech law
Palm Beach Gardens pediatrician Dr. Tommy Schechtman is one of the plaintiffs. /PB Post Three physicians’ groups have filed a federal lawsuit against the State of Florida, Gov. Rick Scott and several...
View ArticleKids not sleeping? Cut the screen time, researchers say
Perhaps a little too scary for preschoolers. /APParents, do your children have televisions or computers in their bedrooms? Two new studies may make you want to reconsider that strategy. Kids who spent...
View ArticleEmotions run high when deaf baby first hears mom’s voice
The incredible moment depicted in this video is one that the University of Miami’s Dr. Thomas Balkany has seen many times. Cochlear implant technology has improved so quickly and so dramatically that...
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