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By Joan Spitrey
 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued additional travel warnings for pregnant women as the Zika virus outbreak continues. Initially, the CDC listed 14 countries, but they just added eight more countries in South America, the Caribbean and Polynesia. These precautions come after the CDC announced about a dozen cases of Zika virus confirmed in the United States. All of the cases in the U.S. have been in residents who had recently traveled internationally.
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The Dallas Morning News
A month after tornadoes ravaged North Texas, mental-health experts are warning survivors to be on the alert for another problem: post-traumatic stress disorder.
Though many people associate that syndrome with soldiers who have been through combat, PTSD can affect about a fifth of people who were directly affected by a natural disaster, medical studies show.
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Governing
It's been more than a year since California voters overwhelmingly decided to scale back penalties for several common crimes through Proposition 47. But debate over the new law has only grown more heated.
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Claims Journal
The federal government wants to get autonomous vehicles on the road more quickly, and says it will fast-track policies and possibly even waive regulations to do it.
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By Lynn Hetzler
 The number of emergency department visits related to alcohol has risen dramatically in the United States in recent years. It can be challenging for ED doctors to quickly determine whether alcohol alone caused a patient's symptoms or whether other drugs are involved. A new saliva test may someday solve this problem. Researchers have developed a test they say can detect toxic chemicals commonly found in the "date rape drug" GHB as well as cheap or fake alcohol.
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Insurance Journal
Tornadoes, hailstorms and fires took their toll on Texas last year with insured losses well over $3 billion, according to an insurer trade group.
The state had over three times as many claims and almost three times the dollar amount in losses as the next highest ranked states, the Insurance Council of Texas reported.
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TWC News
The Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health released a study after analyzing visits to construction sites made by OSHA over a period of a year. The report says in 2014 inspectors found a violation in 83 percent of construction inspections in a 10-county area, including Buffalo and Rochester.
Of those violations, 82 percent were classified as "serious."
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PropertyCasualty360.com
Workplace injuries and accidents are the near the top of every employer's list of concerns.
In 2013, workplace accidents and injuries that caused employees to miss six or more days of work cost U.S. employers nearly $62 billion, according to the 2016 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index. Of that $62 billion, more than 82.5 percent can be attributed to the 10 leading causes of the most disabling work-related injuries.
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Government Technology
Even though every cop will likely wear a recording device in the not-too-distant future, a new report reveals there's little consensus about how to use them.
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Emergency Management
For years, most requests for mental health information have been caught in a legal stalemate between law enforcement needs and health facilities' concerns about patients' privacy.
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Forbes
Car owners shouldn't just passively wait for safety recalls to show up in their mailboxes.
They should proactively check to see if their car is subject to a recall — and then by all means get the work done, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Valley News Live
When you get into a cab, knowing you're being driven by a licensed cab driver is often assumed. However, Michael Fairfield, a cab driver, said that isn't always the case.
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San Francisco Chronicle
More Americans than ever rely solely on their phones for online access, according to the Pew Research Center. But being smartphone reliant poses many challenges. People who connect to the Internet using only their phones are more likely than others to hit data caps that, in turn, limit how much they can do online, or the added charges could make the phones prohibitively expensive, according to Pew. Of those who do not have broadband Internet service at home, nearly half cited cost as a reason, and most are people of color or from low-income households.
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