The high school graduation rate in the US has hit an all-time high: 80 percent. That means four out of five students who started high school successfully graduated in four years. And progress is accelerating, driven by gains from black and Hispanic students since 2006. Still, the national figure, released today for the 2011-12 school year, hides signification variation among ... Read More »
If you’re a teenage athlete, or the parent of one, you probably live in fear of a torn anterior cruciate ligament, one of the knee’s key stabilizing ligaments. A torn ACL often requires surgical repair. But so-called neuromuscular training programs can cut the risk of a serious ACL injury and should be recommended to at-risk young athletes, especially girls, according ... Read More »
About one in three U.S. adults say they did not visit the dentist at some point in the past 12 months. The 64.7% in 2013 who said they did visit the dentist at least once in the previous year is essentially unchanged from the rate found in 2008. Women are more likely than men to report visiting the dentist annually. Read More »
A new study conducted by researchers at Marcus Autism Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine indicates that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more than four times more likely to experience general gastrointestinal (GI) complaints compared with peers, are more than three times as prone to experience constipation and diarrhea than peers, and complain ... Read More »
A stranger hacked into a family’s baby monitor and began shouting at their child via its built-in camera, FOX19 has reported. The report states that a hacker had gained access to the camera due to a firmware vulnerability, with the hacker shouting at the baby to “wake up” before the child’s father Adam Schreck entered the room. Adam states that ... Read More »
A judge declined to issue a protective order against Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Paul Simon and his musician wife, Edie Brickell, following an alleged domestic dispute Saturday night, because the couple said they aren’t a threat to each other. Read More »
Scientists using two NASA telescopes have discovered a new brown dwarf believed to be the coldest of its kind. According to Space.com, a Penn State team used the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope to spot the star that sits in the fourth-closest system to our own. Read More »
A dead blue whale that is slowly rotting on the beach of the western Newfoundland community of Trout River has the community scrambling to find a way to get rid of it before it explodes. The whale’s 25-metre carcass washed into Trout River just over a week ago, and has since been pushed up against the beach. Read More »
The Alberta government reached a new contract agreement with its largest public sector union Monday, capping months of bitter negotiations and court challenges. Read More »
Researchers have completed a study that may link young girls that have been called “fat” and obesity as they grow older. Over 2000 young girls were part of the study. At age 10, the girls answered the question, “have any of these people told you that you were too fat: father, mother, brother, sister, best girlfriend, boy you like best, ... Read More »
Chinese legislators have passed the first amendments to the country’s environmental protection law in 25 years, promising greater powers for environmental authorities and harsher punishments for polluters. The amendments, which the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress passed on Thursday after two years of debate, will allow authorities to detain company bosses for 15 days if they do not complete ... Read More »
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