Dad Calls For Lollipops To Be Banned After His Son Choked

A dad is calling for a ban on lollipops after his five-year-old son nearly choked to death on one of the sugary sweets that he'd been given whilst trick or treating. Brett Cole said that his son Bobby 'went floppy' and lost consciousness when the lollipop ca…
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Netflix Releases Teaser Trailer For You Season 2

Netflix has released a teaser trailer for season two of You. The streaming site confirmed the show's return yesterday when they announced it would be back on our screens on 26 December. And now we've got our first glimpse at the new stars of the show, as we…
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The EU just approved a vaccine to prevent Ebola – Engadget

Ervebo was first engineered by the Public Health Agency of Canada and the US Army more than a decade ago. In 2014, following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Merck acquired the rights to develop the vaccine. The "conditional marketing authorization" is a t…
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E-Cigarettes Don’t Have to Be Tainted to Send You to the Hospital, UK Case Shows – Gizmodo

In recent months, hundreds of people in the U.S. have become acutely sick and have even died due to vaping. These cases have largely been tied to black-market vaping products made with toxic additives. But a new case study out of the UK seems to show that in …
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UK doctors warn of potential life-threatening allergic reaction to e-cigarettes after treating teen – CNBC

Doctors in the U.K. who recently treated a teenage boy with respiratory failure are warning that the fluid in e-cigarettes could trigger a life-threatening allergic reaction that causes inflammation in the lungs. The doctors diagnosed a 16-year-old boy with …
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Vaping linked to teenager’s life-threatening lung inflammation in rare British case – CNN

London (CNN)The fluid in e-cigarettes could cause a potentially life-threatening lung condition in some people, British doctors have warned, after a 16-year-old boy suffered respiratory failure in a rare case that has been linked to vaping. The teenager had …
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Cobb student with measles may have spread to others unvaccinated – Atlanta Journal Constitution

An unvaccinated Cobb County middle schooler contracted measles and exposed others who were unimmunized to the highly contagious virus, the Georgia Public Health Department said Monday.  School district officials confirmed that the student attended Mabry Midd…
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US officials identify ‘strong culprit’ in vaping illnesses – The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) U.S. health officials announced a breakthrough Friday into the cause of a mysterious outbreak of vaping illnesses, reporting they have a very strong culprit. The same chemical compound was found in fluid taken from the lungs of 29 patients acro…
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A.I. Systems Echo Biases They’re Fed, Putting Scientists on Guard – The New York Times

In analyzing all this text, each system learned a specific task. OpenAIs system learned to predict the next word in a sentence. BERT learned to identify the missing word in a sentence (such as I want to ____ that car because it is cheap). Through learning th…
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Vox Sentences: The bad E in e-cigarettes – Vox.com

Vox Sentences is your daily digest for whats happening in the world. Sign up for the Vox Sentences newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday, or view the Vox Sentences archive for past editions. A very strong culprit in the vaping il…
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