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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will no longer accept campaign donations from fossil fuel companies.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/391933-dnc-to-reject-fossil-fuel-company-donations


One-Third of US Adults May Unknowingly Use Medications that Can Cause Depression
Approximately 15 percent of adults who simultaneously used three or more of these medications experienced depression while taking the drugs, compared with just 5 percent for those not using any of the drugs, 7 percent for those using one medication and 9 percent for those taking two drugs simultaneously.
https://neurosciencenews.com/depression-causing-medications-9319/


Last week, in a move that could further gut the Affordable Care Act and threaten the health insurance of 130 million people, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it would not defend the provisions of the law that protect consumers with pre-existing conditions. Cable news barely took notice.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/12/Trump-administration-threatens-health-care-for-130-million-people-with-pre-existing-condit/220419


Flooding from high tides has doubled in the US in just 30 years
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/flooding-from-high-tides-has-doubled-in-the-us-in-just-30-years


A group of top Democrats are calling on the Trump administration to present a plan to Congress to combat “massive levels of deprivation and the immense suffering this deprivation causes”, following an excoriating United Nations report into extreme poverty in America.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/12/democrats-poverty-calls-congress-us-rates-statistics


Ireland will hold a referendum in October to remove the offence of blasphemy from its constitution, Charlie Flanagan, the justice and equality minister, has said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/12/ireland-blasphemy-referendum


Beauty blogger mom calls out Kat Von D for anti-vaccine stance with heartwrenching story
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/allthemoms/2018/06/12/kat-von-d-called-out-anti-vaccine-instagram/694083002/


Just weeks after passing a new tax on big businesses, Seattle political leaders signaled late Monday they would reverse course and repeal it.
Mayor Jenny Durkan and city council President Bruce Harrell said in statements that they would end the tax, initially meant to combat rising homelessness in a city where housing prices have soared.
[Amazon's leaders have a welfare mentality common to big business. They don't want to pay for the resources they use and the problems they cause.]
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/391807-seattle-reverses-course-on-business-tax-after-amazon-pressure


Mueller warns that election, politics meddling by foreigners is still happening
[What would be surprising would be if places like Russia were not continuing to meddle.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/12/mueller-warns-that-election-politics-meddling-by-foreigners-is-still-happening.html


TransCanada contains West Virginia natgas pipeline blast, no injuries
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pipeline-fire-westvirginia/transcanada-contains-west-virginia-natgas-pipeline-blast-no-injuries-idUSKCN1J3231


Frequent use of the ER fell after the Affordable Care Act
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/uoc--fuo061218.php


1.45 million children's lives saved by HiB and pneumococcal vaccines since 2000
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/jhub-1m060718.php


Children of highly critical parents show less attention to emotional facial expressions, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University at New York.
"These findings suggest that children with a critical parent might avoid paying attention to faces expressing any type of emotion," said Kiera James, graduate student of psychology at Binghamton University, and lead author of the paper. "This behavior might affect their relationships with others and could be one reason why children exposed to high levels of criticism are at risk for things like depression and anxiety."
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/bu-cfp061118.php


Ingesting honey after swallowing button battery reduces injury and improves outcomes
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/chop-iha060818.php


Sleeping too much or not enough may have bad effects on health
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/bc-stm060718.php


People who smoke or have diabetes may be at increased risk of calcifications in a region of the brain crucial to memory
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/rson-sad060518.php


A new study shows that a fruit and vegetable prescription program can improve access to healthy foods for underserved children. The program, which was implemented in Flint, Michigan, could be replicated in other areas to address food insecurity in children.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/n2-fav053118.php


A new study shows how veterans with PTSD may benefit physiologically from using service dogs.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/pu-pbm060718.php


New findings from the long-running Whitehall II study of over 10,000 civil servants has found 50-year-olds who had blood pressure that was higher than normal but still below the threshold commonly used when deciding to treat the condition, were at increased risk of developing dementia in later life.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/esoc-dri061118.php


People with higher empathy differ from others in the way their brains process music, according to a study by researchers at Southern Methodist University, Dallas and UCLA.
The researchers found that compared to low empathy people, those with higher empathy process familiar music with greater involvement of the reward system of the brain, as well as in areas responsible for processing social information.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/smu-pwd061218.php


Composition of complex sugars in breast milk may prevent future food allergies
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/uoc--coc061218.php