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Only one in five Americans agrees with the current Republican plan of repealing Obamacare without the details of a replacement being worked about, a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found. The survey found that three-fourths of those polled either oppose repealing the law (47 percent), or want to wait to repeal it until details of the replacement law …

A company you’ve probably never heard of, Mighty Cast, has today announced a pair of interesting new wearable devices at CES 2017. The Nex Evolution doesn’t have a full display, but rather opts for five small tappable buttons called “Mods” that can be customized to do almost anything using the companion app and light up to provide phone notifications. And …

Funimation® Entertainment is proud to announce its acquisition of “Attack on Titan” Season 2 and the return of the worldwide hit anime series which was first introduced to U.S. and Canadian audiences in 2013. “Attack on Titan” Season 2 is scheduled to premiere in April 2017 in Japan. Hajime Isayama’s story has been adapted as a novel, an anime series, …

Annually, the flu impacts more and more people each year. There are various causes of this, including our dependence on our cell phones, which harbor far more germs than we’d like to believe. The key to beating the flu in 2017 is to get a 2017 flu vaccine. Question: Is this year worse than other recent years? This seems to …

The Saskatchewan government has announced it’s moving to consolidate the province’s 12 health regions into one provincial health authority. Saskatchewan Health Minister Jim Reiter announced on Wednesday the province plans to consolidate the existing 12 Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) into a single Provincial Health Authority. “One Provincial Health Authority that is focused on better co-ordination of health services across the …

The Alien franchise is getting another virtual reality …. “experience,” this time based on the upcoming Ridley Scott film Alien: Covenant. Variety reports the project does not yet have a release date but will be a “paid title on major VR platform”. The fact that you have to pay for it, and the following description, makes it sound like a …

Dan Kay, a contestant on “Survivor: Gabon,” died unexpectedly on Saturday. He was 40. Dan Kay was an attorney from Brookline, New Hampshire who competed on the reality show at the age of 32. According his obituary, Kay earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst before pursuing a law degree from Syracuse University.

New research suggests the method to stopping a lifelong peanut allergy is to, well, feed your infants peanuts. Roughly three million Americans are living with peanut allergies, but new guidelines from the National Institute of Allergies and Disease (NIAID) suggest that early introduction of peanuts into infants’ diets may prevent a potentially life-threatening allergy from developing in the first place. …

Despite being prescribed for pregnant women for over 40 years, a new study that looked at the trial on which the effectiveness of the drug, Diclectin, found the original trial’s outcome was based on flawed research. According to a worrying new study published by PLOS One by researchers in Toronto, Canada, the combination of two of this medication’s key elements …

Molecular biologists at Christiana Care Health System’s Gene Editing Institute have developed a new system that allows them to not only repair damaged DNA within human cells, but also to determine when the DNA repair machinery has introduced unwanted genetic changes alongside, or instead of, the desired repair. A team of researchers led by Eric Kmiec, Ph.D., director of the …

Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld is partnering with Shangai-based Fundamental Films to develop an Extreme Universe movie franchise. Rob Liefeld, who created the Merc With A Mouth alongside writer Fabian Nicieza, will work with the duo on turning his sprawling series of comic books, boasting more than 100 varied characters, into what all involved will be keeping their fingers crossed spawns …