Nebraska Town Considers Banning Smoking in Apartments and other top stories.

• 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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• Doctors Dig for More Data About Patients

  

  The race is on to develop better ways to predict if patients will develop diabetes, heart disease or other critical conditions. Spurred by employers and insurers that want health-care providers to prevent illness—and not merely treat it—doctors and hospitals are creating ever more complex algorithms to forecast their patients’ medical future. And they’re searching for new kinds of data to make those predictions as accurate as...

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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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