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Woody Harrelson, an actor and marijuana advocate, was among the roughly 60 applicants, who have applied to open the first medical marijuana dispensary in Hawaii. The 54-year-old actor has applied for a license in Honolulu County under Simple Organic Living, the company in which he works.

On Friday, the Hawaii Department of Health displayed the list of 66 applications on its website. Now, the state is reviewing applications for dispensary permits, which will be awarded by them in April.

There is good news for some people in the high-BMI crowd as a latest study has found that nearly 54 million Americans, who were earlier labeled as obese or overweight based on their body mass index (BMI), are actually healthy, if you look deeply.

The findings from the University of California, Los Angeles researchers have appeared in the International Journal of Obesity. The findings have revealed that employers could potentially burden people with wrongly high health insurance costs on the basis of a deeply defective measure of actual health.

Lead author A. Janet Tomiyama, a psychologist at UCLA, said this must be the last nail in the coffin for BMI.

Following a strong backlash prompted by recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for sexually active women to avoid drinking alcohol if they aren’t using birth control, the CDC has defended its words. Many women considered its suggestion insulting, severe and impractical.

In an interview on Friday, Anne Schuchat, the principal deputy director of the CDC, said that they weren’t as clear as they had hoped to be.

Released on Tuesday, the focus of the CDC report was on the likelihood that children could develop fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, estimating that 3.3 million women of the age group 15 to 44 drink alcohol while not using birth control and put their infants at the risk of the disorders.

A single hair strand nearly cost a Wichita baby one of her toes. Post this incident the parents of the baby have been cautioning others regarding what is known as a ‘hair tourniquet’.

In January 2016, Wichita’s Scott Walker shared a picture of Molly, his daughter, and her swollen toe on social website Facebook, and just seven days after that, it went viral. Several others commented about experiencing a scare with hair tourniquets.

What happens is that a strand a hair or loose fiber wraps the finger, toes or even penis of a baby. In case not noticed timely, the strand can get tight eventually, causing the child to miss blood flow to that part of the body.

The white-tailed deer, most popular game species and best-studied wild animal in North America, has been carrying a malaria parasite that researchers have failed to notice for many years. Though it’s a sheer coincidence, the new find could help science in understanding how malaria originated, thanks to a DNA technology used.

Malaria parasites have hundreds of species spreading all over the globe, except southernmost continent Antarctica. Many of them are found in birds and lizards, even on remote ocean islands. Most of the science community has accepted an old belief that mammal-infecting malaria parasites were originated in the Old World. According to them, continents like Africa and Asia are the distributor of the microorganisms that infect animals.

The question ‘What is killing the bees’ has been baffling scientists in recent years. Several reports have talked about the mysterious drop in honeybee populations worldwide, with study focusing on likely causes, including parasites, a kind of pesticide known as neonicotinoids, and other factors.

Now, a research by the University of Exeter in the UK and the University of California, Berkeley, has come up with another explanation that the spread of a viral disease, accidentally helped along by human beings.