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Henderson boy’s recipe wins place at White House table

You don’t have to be a politician to dine at the White House. Just ask 9-year-old Jack Newkirk. This Henderson boy won a reserved seat July 10 representing Nevada in the first lady’s Healthy Lunchtime Challenge.

 
Supreme Court upholds Obamacare tax credits

The Supreme Court held in a 6-3 decision that the Affordable Care Act authorized federal tax credits for eligible Americans living not only in states with their own exchanges but also in the 34 states with federal exchanges.

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Color-changing condom detects STIs

The so-called “S.T.EYE” condom is a conceptual design that changes color when it comes into contact with a sexually-transmitted infection such as chlamydia or syphilis.

 
New FDA rules will ban trans fat in foods

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday made good on its proposal to effectively ban artificial trans fats from a wide range of foods, from microwave popcorn to frozen pizza, saying they raise the risk of heart disease.

 
Sleep too serious to ignore, says chest doctors

Getting enough sleep is essential for maintaining health and quality of life, and not getting enough is dangerous to individuals and public safety, according to the American Thoracic Society.

 
San Francisco surpervisors OK health warning on sugary drinks

Soda drinkers in San Francisco, consider yourselves warned. The city is on its way to becoming the first in the nation to pass a law requiring health warnings on all advertisements for sugary drinks, putting soda in the same category as alcohol and tobacco.

 
Florida hospital suspends elective kid heart surgeries due to high mortality rate

St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, has suspended elective pediatric heart surgeries after a CNN investigation calculated that the program had a mortality rate for open heart surgeries three times higher than the national average.

 
Calif. Senate votes to raise smoking age from 18 to 21

The California Senate voted on Tuesday to raise the legal smoking age in the most populous U.S. state to 21 from 18, in a move that could make California one of the states with the highest smoking age.

 
Las Vegas teen who beat cancer to meet Obama

Nicholas Hegedus, a student at Schofield Middle School, on Monday learned the details of how he will be granted his biggest wish: meeting President Obama.