Black Doctor Who Said Flight Attendant Stopped Her From Helping Passenger: 'We Still Have So Much Further to Go' and other top stories.

• Black Doctor Who Said Flight Attendant Stopped Her From Helping Passenger: 'We Still Have So Much Further to Go'

  

  When a flight attendant stopped Dr. Tamika Cross, OBGYN, from helping an unconscious passenger, she was confused — because she’s a doctor. “We are looking for actual physicians or nurses or some type of medical personnel,” the young black OBGYN resident says the attendant told her. “We don’t have time to talk to you.” Cross, who works at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston, said the incident was an “unfortunate scenario.” The flight attendant asked for an onboard physician on the flight fro..

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• Researcher: Chemical toxicity costs US $340 billion per year

  

  (CNN) - Routine contact with plastic bottles, toys, food cans, cosmetics and flame retardants containing "endocrine-disrupting chemicals" results in ingestion, leading to a toxic buildup and potentially a variety of medical conditions.Routine exposure to these chemicals adds up to annual costs in excess of $340 billion -- a whopping price tag that comes in the form of poor health, increased medical bills and lost income, according to researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center.The largest single ..

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• Explainer: Open Enrollment for State Insurance, Medicare, Obamacare

  

  Selecting a health insurance plan is never easy, yet each fall millions of New Jersey residents are faced with that very decision. Factors include cost, coverage, and healthcare needs, and a wrong choice could leave customers without protection in a medical crisis. “Open enrollment period” refers to the timeframe in which most insurance customers must sign up for a new plan, or are eligible to switch coverage, without being penalized. There are some exceptions for those who lose their jobs ..

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• Experts probe Zika links to microcephaly in 2 more nations

  

  Two more countries—the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and Vietnam—reported suspected Zika-linked microcephaly cases, while a pair of new scientific reports today described further evidence of the virus in semen and vaginal secretions.In Florida developments, the state reported four new infections contracted in Miami-Dade County, three of them from two known transmission areas.Microcephaly reports in more countriesA hospital official who leads Trinidad and Tobago's Zika screening program said br..

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• Here Are the Most Popular Foods on Twitter

  

  If you are what you tweet, a lot of Americans are very, very jittery. A new study looked at nearly 80 million tweets and found that coffee was the most tweeted-about consumable in the U.S. and Starbucks was by far the most tweeted fast-food restaurant. The study, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research Public Health and Surveillance, used Twitter as a way to gain insight into the health of people in neighborhoods across the U.S. “Increasingly we’re seeing more and more studies l..

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