Health & Safety

A waxing crescent moon is seen behind a streetlight with a newly installed LED fixture in 2011 in Las Vegas. The city was replacing 6,600 existing lights with the energy-efficient LEDs. It has since replaced tens of thousands more.

Bright, Bluish-White LED Streetlamps Disrupt Sleep Cycles, AMA Says

12:46pm June 21, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The American Medical Association says some energy-efficient streetlamps interfere with circadian rhythms and also cause glare. It recommends that towns choose less intense, warmer-colored lights.

Silicon Valley-based Impossible Foods has taken a high-tech approach to creating a plant-based burger that smells and tastes like real meat. At the company's headquarters in Redwood City, Calif., chef Traci Des Jardins served the Impossible Burger (pictur

Silicon Valley's Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes And Sizzles Like Meat

10:30am June 21, 2016

by Lindsey Hoshaw

Impossible Foods took a high-tech approach to creating a meat-free burger that replicates the real thing. It's all designed to tempt carnivores to eat less meat. And it's set to hit restaurants soon.

Assaga camp in Niger is home to some 6,000 refugees, either displaced within the country or from across the border in Nigeria.

One Mother's Perspective On What It's Like To Be A Refugee

3:15am June 21, 2016

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

She's one of a record 65 million refugees in the world today. Home is now a makeshift camp in Niger, buffeted by Sahara desert sands and winds.

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Chocolate bars from San Francisco-based Dandelion Chocolate. The company makes reports about its sourcing practices available to the public online.

Are Millennials Chocolate Chip-o-crites?

7:56pm June 20, 2016

by Natalie Jacewicz

Millennials profess to care about ethical sourcing when grocery shopping. But a study of chocoholics ages 18-35 shows just how different values and behavior can sometimes be.

Hospitals Face New Obstacles In Wake Of Mass Shootings

7:30pm June 20, 2016

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Dr. John Hick about obstacles hospitals and emergency responders encounter after shootings.

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Governor McCrory Expands Access To Overdose-Preventing Drug With New Law

5:07pm June 20, 2016

by Bethany Chafin

Governor McCrory signed a bill Monday increasing the availability of a life-saving medication that's used to treat some drug overdoses.

Children can encounter lead in contaminated soil, paint, water and dust.

Pediatricians Call For More Testing And Tighter Rules On Lead Exposure

3:55pm June 20, 2016

by Rae Ellen Bichell

Citing growing evidence that no amount of lead exposure is safe for kids, the American Academy of Pediatrics has called for tighter regulations on the amount of lead in house dust, water and soil.

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Randy Curtis has hemophilia. These days he regularly injects the clotting factor treatments he needs from home, as a relatively easy way of preventing the episodes of catastrophic bleeding that plagued him as a child.

Baby Boomers With Hemophilia Didn't Expect To Grow Old

3:14pm June 20, 2016

by Lesley McClurg

A generation that survived life-threatening bleeds, the HIV epidemic and hepatitis C now nears retirement with an illness that can mostly be safely managed at home — for about $250,000 a year.

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One way to get Egyptians talking about autism? Turn their biggest monument blue — the official color of Autism Awareness Month.

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She Turned The Pyramids Blue — And Got Egyptians To Talk About Autism

2:32pm June 20, 2016

by Malaka Gharib

Some people in Egypt think autism is a curse. But a psychologist named Dahlia Soliman is determined to change attitudes.

So far it looks like Zika virus doesn't pose the same neurological risk to small children as it does to fetuses in the womb.

Zika And Children: What Parents Need To Know

2:22pm June 20, 2016

by Michaeleen Doucleff

So far, data suggest that Zika doesn't pose the same risk of neurological defects to babies and children as it does to fetuses in the womb. But doctors don't know the long-term effects of the virus.