WASHINGTON (AP) — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago. Sandy LoGrande therefore thought it was a mistake when, a year after her father's death, Massachusetts billed [...]
HOBOKEN, N.J. — Street parking was already scarce in Hoboken when the death of an elderly pedestrian spurred city leaders to remove even more spaces in a bid to end traffic fatalities. For seven years now, the city of nearly 60,000 people has reported resounding success: Not a single automobile occupant, bicyclist or pedestrian has [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s nothing complicated about the latest tobacco product trending online: Zyn is a tiny pouch filled with nicotine and flavoring. It has stoked a debate among politicians, parents and pundits that reflects an increasingly complex landscape in which Big Tobacco companies aggressively push alternative products while experts wrestle with their potential benefits [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Emily Hollenbeck lived with a deep, recurring depression she likened to a black hole, where gravity felt so strong and her limbs so heavy she could barely move. She knew the illness could kill her. Both of her parents had taken their lives. She was willing to try something extreme: Having [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in overdose deaths, a new government study suggests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called its study published last week the largest to look at how Americans took the drugs that killed them. CDC officials decided to study [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Derry Oliver was in fifth grade when she first talked to her mom about seeing a therapist. She was living in Georgia with her uncle and grandparents while her mom was in New York scoping out jobs and apartments ahead of moving the family. It was a rough year apart. Oliver, [...]
Most adults believe that air travel is generally safe in the United States, despite some doubts about whether aircraft are being properly maintained and remain free from structural problems, according to a new poll. About 7 in 10 adults say planes are a "very" or "somewhat" safe method of travel, according to a new poll [...]
EAST PALESTINE (AP) — Daily life largely returned to normal for most of the nearly 5,000 residents of East Palestine months after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that caught fire a year ago, but many residents say concerns and fears are always there. Some people still report respiratory [...]
Cliff Douglas fought the tobacco industry for decades. As a lawyer, activist and executive at non-profit organizations, he sued cigarette makers, cultivated whistleblowers and led the campaign to ban smoking on airlines. Those are reasons why allies in the anti-smoking movement were surprised when in October he became CEO of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free [...]
Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear. A small study published last week documents significantly restored hearing in five of six kids treated in China. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on Jan. 23 announced similar improvements in an 11-year-old boy treated there. Earlier this month, Chinese researchers published a study [...]