Holding Back On Suicide and other top stories.

• Holding Back On Suicide

  September is National Suicide Prevention Month and I've done all I can do to help others hold onto their lives, while doing the same for myself. In all honesty, I never really thought about suicide until working on my first memoir, Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal which was about my grandmother, a World War I survivor who committed suicide when she was 61. It was me who found her in my childhood home. At the time, I was 10 and really did not realize the impact that expe..

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• $3b drive to end diseases apt to tap Boston area's talent

  

  It set the Longwood Medical Area and Kendall Square abuzz last week: not a medical breakthrough or the latest big-money biotech deal, but the audacious announcement by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan, his Quincy-bred wife, that they would commit $3 billion to the bold goal of beating all diseases into submission by the end of the century.Like Bill and Melinda Gates before them, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, as the couple’s philanthropic organization is known, will bols..

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• More Hispanics Treated at Breast Cancer Center After Obamacare

  

  By Mary Elizabeth Dallas, HealthDay Reporter (HealthDay) SUNDAY, Sept. 25, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- After the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented in 2014, more Hispanic women received breast cancer treatment and enrolled in clinical trials at a California cancer center, a new study finds. "Our study shows that with the implementation of the ACA in California, our cancer center's Hispanic breast cancer patient population increased significantly," Chloe Lalonde said in a news r..

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• Nebraska Town Considers Banning Smoking in Apartments

  Some leaders in a blue-collar Nebraska suburb that's home to Offutt Air Force Base are borrowing an idea from a vastly more liberal state: Ban apartment renters from smoking cigarettes and e-cigarettes inside. The proposal, which would be one of the few such restrictions outside of California and is similar to federal rules for public housing across the U.S., isn't meant to protect the health of the city's 50,000 residents, but instead to prevent fires. Councilman Don Preister proposed the ..

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• In one day, 7 fatal drug overdoses in Cleveland area

  

  Fifty-two drug overdose deaths occurred in August alone, the highest such number in a given month for the county. said Chris Harris, the communications specialist for Cuyahoga County medical examiner's office.Three-hundred fifty people in the county have died from drug overdoses in 2016, and it is projected to have 500 fatalities caused by opioid drug overdoses by the end of the year, doubling the number from the previous year, according to Harris."This cluster of deaths is deeply concerning," m..

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• Some cities are taking another look at LED lighting after AMA warning

  

  If people are sleepless in Seattle, it may not be only because they have broken hearts. The American Medical Association issued a warning in June that high-intensity LED streetlights — such as those in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, Houston and elsewhere — emit unseen blue light that can disturb sleep rhythms and possibly increase the risk of serious health conditions, including cancer and cardiovascular disease. The AMA also cautioned that those light-emitting-diode lights can impair nightti..

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• What you need to know about the flu: the shots, the mists and the myths

  

  Antibiotics do not cure the flu.Antibiotics work against bacteria, and the flu is caused by a virus. There are antiviral medications that can treat flu. They lessen symptoms and shorten the amount of time that you feel sick. The same medications can be used to prevent the flu but are usually given to kids, older adults, pregnant women and people with health problems who are at high risk of complications from the flu. If antiviral medications are not taken properly, the flu virus can become resi..

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• Body fat link to bacteria in faeces

  

  Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption At least 50% of human faeces is made up of bacteria shed from the gut The make-up of the bacteria found in human faeces may influence levels of dangerous fat in our bodies, say researchers from King's College London.Their analysis of stool samples in a study of more than 3,600 twins found evidence that some of this bacteria is inherited.What is contained in faeces bacteria could therefore partly expl..

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