Too Much Social Media Use Linked to Feelings of Isolation and other top stories.

• Too Much Social Media Use Linked to Feelings of Isolation

  

  Fans of social media may say that all of that posting and liking helps connect them with others, but a new study finds that spending more time on social media platforms is actually linked to a higher likelihood of feeling socially isolated. Social isolation — which the researchers defined as a lack of a sense of belonging, true engagement with others and fulfilling relationships — has been linked to an increased risk of illness and death, according to the study. Currently, "mental heal..

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• 12-year-old boy who lost leg from cancer adopts three-legged dog

  

  12-year-old boy who lost leg from cancer adopts three-legged dog Quinn Scharn is 12-years-old and after surviving the battle with cancer twice and getting one leg amputated, he had one wish while in the hospital and its come true.(Mar. 3, 2017) Ananda Rochita, wltx 10:37 PM. EST March 05, 2017 10-year-old boy who survived cancer adopts three-legged dog. (Photo: Front Street Animal Shelter Facebook) A boy who lost his leg to cancer found his dream dog with ..

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• Multi-state E. coli outbreak linked to soy nut butter

  

  Multi-state E. coli outbreak linked to soy nut butter iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Health officials are investigating after at least a dozen people became ill from E. coli that was linked to a soy nut butter, a peanut butter substitute. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the cases were reported from five states (Arizona, California, Maryland, New Jersey and Oregon). Six of those who became ill from the outbreak were hospitalized and 11 of them are younger than 18 y..

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• Bird flu found in Tennessee chicken flock on Tyson-contracted farm

  

  A strain of bird flu has been detected in a chicken breeder flock on a Tennessee farm contracted to U.S. food giant Tyson Foods Inc, and the 73,500 birds will be culled to stop the virus from entering the food system, government and company officials said on Sunday.The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this represented the first confirmed case of highly pathogenic H7 avian influenza (HPAI) in commercial poultry in the United States this year. It is the first time HPAI has been found in Tenne..

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• Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, Pioneering Liver Surgeon, Dies at 90

  

  After a self-imposed moratorium that lasted three years, Dr. Starzl and his colleagues tried again. They first considered inserting a second liver, to function beneath the impaired one, as a possible route to avoiding the heavy bleeding caused by organ removal. But promising results obtained from liver surgeries on dogs could not be replicated in human patients, and that avenue was abandoned. The team then operated on a 19-month-old girl and replaced her cancerous liver. The transplanted liver ..

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• Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children each year, WHO says

  

  The causes include unsafe water, lack of sanitation, poor hygiene practices and indoor and outdoor pollution, as well as injuries.The new numbers equate to these pollutants being the cause of one in four deaths of children 1 month to 5 years old.One new report highlights that the most common causes of child death are preventable through interventions already available to the communities most affected. These causes are diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia, which can be prevented using insecticide-trea..

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