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18 mayors: Limit use of food stamps to buy soda
The mayors of Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles and 15 other cities are reviving a push against letting food stamps be used to buy soda and other sugary drinks. In a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday, the mayors say it's "time to test and evaluate approaches limiting" the use of ...
Scientists: Timber in Lake Michigan centuries old
A wooden beam embedded at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, underwater archaeologists announced Tuesday, a crucial finding as crews dig toward what they hope is the carcass of a French ship that disappeared while exploring the Great Lakes in the 17th Century. ...
Editorials from around Pennsylvania
THE VETERANS AFFAIRS/LEGIONELLA MESS: IT GROWS AND GROWS Just when you thought the Legionella scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs' hospitals in Pittsburgh couldn't get any worse, it explodes. As the Trib reported on Sunday, the bacteria that can lead to Legionnaires' disease were running rampant at the VA's ...
Widow of Pa. inmate who killed himself files suit
The widow of an inmate who committed suicide at Lancaster County Prison in 2011 is suing the prison and its medical services provider. Fifty-year-old John Kruger jumped from a second-floor railing and struck his head on the floor in March 2011. The Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era reports (http://bit.ly/12SAZvn ) his ...
Parents awarded $1.72M in death of 2-year-old girl
A jury in Berks County has awarded a couple $1.72 million in a malpractice case involving their 2-year-old daughter who died after contracting bacterial meningitis. The Reading Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/1286OZJ ) jurors voted 10-2 late Friday in favor of Anna and Charles Takacs, who sued Reading Hospital and Dr. Duane ...
Remote Mich. village abuzz over shipwreck search
Commercial fisherman Larry Barbeau's comings and goings usually don't create much of a stir in this wind-swept Lake Michigan outpost, but in the past few days, his phone jangles the minute he arrives home. Barbeau's 46-foot boat is the offshore nerve center for an expedition seeking the underwater grave of ...
Pa. McDonald's franchise sued over payroll cards
A single mother who worked briefly at a northeastern Pennsylvania McDonald's franchise is suing the owners after she said she was given a fee-laden debit card and told that she must use it to access her earnings. A lawyer filed a lawsuit Thursday in Luzerne County on behalf of Natalie ...
To ease shortage of organs, grow them in a lab?
By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery. Her cystic fibrosis was threatening her life, and her case spurred a debate on how to allocate donor organs. ...
Corbett signs anti-abortion coverage bill in Pa.
Pennsylvania is joining about 20 other states in limiting coverage of abortions under health care insurance policies offered in a federally-run insurance marketplace starting next year under a sweeping federal law. The office of Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican who opposes abortion rights, said he signed the bill Monday, without ...
Need an Organ? A Lab-Grown One May Work One Day
Some types of experimental lab-grown body parts are now implanted in people and working well, but challenges remain in creating complex structures. Researchers hope one day to ease chronic shortages of much needed organs. (June 17)
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