The Spanish parliament is set to enact a regional ban on the method of natural gas extraction known as “hydraulic fracturing” or “fracking,” over environmental concerns.
According to Bloomberg, the ban will be enacted in the gas-rich northern Cantabria region, which has the potential to yield an estimated $100 million in exploration projects. Ultimately, though, the Spanish lawmakers determined that the environmental risks weren’t worth it.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have published the results of a survey that concluded many doctors are too quick to prescribe the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins.
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have released a study concluding that low levels of the hormone melatonin may play a role in developing type 2 diabetes, USA Today reports. They found that women with low levels of melatonin at night had twice the risk of developing type 2 diabetes as those with high levels.
A column by local physician Christie Iverson, MD, in the Bismarck Tribune out of North Dakota describes pelvic organ prolapse. Iverson writes that the condition is basically what happens when a woman’s pelvic floor weakens and the vaginal walls protrude, or a weakened uterus descends into the vaginal canal.
The American Cancer Society says different forms of surgery might be used to treat some forms of mesothelioma.
A woman who received a faulty hip implant that had to be replaced after only three years should get at least $5 million from the company that manufactured it, her lawyer told a Chicago jury.
