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February 15, 2015 (San Diego’s East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Four steps for Anthem customers to protect themselves after the breach (CS Monitor)
- Not in front of the telly: Warning over 'listening' TV (BBC)
- Do underwater volcanoes alter Earth's climate? (CS Monitor)
- FCC Proposal Would Regulate Internet Like A Public Utility (NPR)
- Qualcomm Hit With Record Fine In Chinese Anti-Monopoly Case (NPR)
- If you're happy and you know it, write a tweet (APM Marketplace)
HEALTH
- 'DNA Clock' May Predict Your Time On Earth (Jewish Word Review)
- Ebola virus sent out of high-security lab was likely dead: CDC (Reuters)
- Drunkorexia: Swapping Meals For Drinks (KPBS)
- Alzheimer's brains have key genetic differences (UT San Diego)
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SCIENCE AND TECH NOLOGY
Four steps for Anthem customers to protect themselves after the breach (CS Monitor)
Data stolen from the nation's second-largest insurer gives bad guys a lot of leeway for scams. Here's how consumers can neutralize the threat.
Not in front of the telly: Warning over 'listening' TV (BBC)
Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set. /The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung Smart TV using its voice activation feature. Such TV sets "listen" to some of what is said in front of them and may share details they hear with Samsung or third parties, it said.
Do underwater volcanoes alter Earth's climate? (CS Monitor)
Underwater eruptions release enough carbon dioxide to warm the planet, new research finds.
FCC Proposal Would Regulate Internet Like A Public Utility (NPR)
Supporters of the move say it's the best way to guarantee so-called net neutrality. Opponents believe meddlesome regulators will impose intrusive new rules on Internet service.
Qualcomm Hit With Record Fine In Chinese Anti-Monopoly Case (NPR)
China fined chipmaker Qualcomm $975 million in the biggest of a wave of anti-monopoly penalties that have rattled foreign companies. The San Diego-based company said it will not contest the matter.
If you're happy and you know it, write a tweet (APM Marketplace)
Vermont is the happiest state in the country, according to a data-based meter that measures people’s happiness in real time.
HEALTH
'DNA Clock' May Predict Your Time On Earth
(Jewish Word Review) -- It seems that age actually is more than just a number and the age on your birth certificate is not nearly as important as the age printed in your DNA. In order to calculate an individual’s biological clock, researchers compared the volunteer’s actual age with the age shown by the chemical changes in their DNA, known as methylation. This process does not cause physical changes to the DNA but rather affects how certain genes are expressed. Science Blog reported that those whose biological age was greater than their true age were likely to die sooner than those whose biological and actual ages were the same.
Ebola virus sent out of high-security lab was likely dead: CDC (Reuters)
An internal investigation of an Ebola incident at a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory in December found that samples sent to a lower-security lab were "unlikely" to have contained live virus and posed no threat to staff, the CDC said on Wednesday. The close call followed mishaps involving anthrax and a deadly strain of bird flu, raising questions about how the agency handles the world's deadliest pathogens....
Drunkorexia: Swapping Meals For Drinks (KPBS)
Binge drinking on college campuses is nothing new, but some experts say more students are now trading food calories for alcoholic calories to stay thin and get drunk faster. It's called "drunkorexia."
Alzheimer's brains have key genetic differences (UT San Diego)
Brains of Alzheimer's patients have cells with abnormally high numbers of chromosome 21 fragments.
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