Consumer Reports: New smoke alarms required and other top stories.

• Consumer Reports: New smoke alarms required

  CONSUMER REPORTS -- This is the time of the year when we're supposed to change the batteries in our smoke alarms. But what if the smoke alarm itself needs to be changed? If your smoke detector is more than 10 years old, it’s time for a new one because the sensors inside can lose sensitivity. Consumer Reports tests smoke detectors by creating two types of common household fires. Photoelectric alarms are best at detecting smoky, slow-building fires, and ionization alarms are best at detecting fa..

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• Rapper Kurtis Blow: Not all police racist — LAPD saved my life

  

  Kurtis Walker — who went by the moniker Kurtis Blow during his rap career in the '80s — says four LAPD cops gave him CPR and brought him back to life at a bus stop in Canoga Park on Friday. "I died and those officers saved my life," Walker, 57, said ...

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• Can Facebook activity predict odds of dying?

  

  Researchers stop short of saying that using the social networking website will either hasten or delay illness or death, but they conclude that how a person interacts on the site might say a lot about their level of risk."We can't say using Facebook is good for you, but I think the study provides evidence that it's probably not bad for you," said James Fowler, the study's senior author, from the University of California, San Diego.Past studies have found that people with more friends and social t..

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• Millennial Registrations Spike But Will They Turn Out to Vote?

  

  As the youngest members of the millennial generation became old enough to vote in this year's U.S. presidential election, states and social media platforms poured efforts into online registration, hoping to attract these tech savvy voters who now rival Baby Boomers as the country's largest demographic.With Election Day just two days away, political experts are skeptical that a record number of millennials who signed up to vote will actually result in the 18-34 year-old age group turning out at t..

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• Buyers clubs for cheaper drugs help fight hepatitis and HIV

  

  LONDON Frustrated by the high price of antiviral drugs, thousands of patients from London to Moscow to Sydney are turning to a new wave of online "buyers clubs" to get cheap generic medicines to cure hepatitis C and protect against HIV infection.While regulators warn that buying drugs online is risky, scientific data presented at a recent medical conference suggest that treatment arranged through buyers club can be just as effective as through conventional channels. Will Nutland, who supports ..

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• War Metaphors for Alzheimer's Disease May Harm More Than Help

  

  Treating health conditions as battles that need to be won is common in popular media and medical and research communities.  However, using war metaphors for conditions that may not be fully treatable, such as Alzheimer’s disease, may be causing more harm than good, say a team of researchers.While this type of wording can have a rallying effect to deal with the issue, warfare language can also lead to fear and stigma, turn patients into victims and divert resources from critically important preve..

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• CDC reports first US cases of deadly fungal disease

  

  FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) (WESH) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified the first U.S. cases of a drug-resistant fungal infection. The CDC said Friday that 13 people have become ill from Candida Auris, a sometimes fatal infection with a high likelihood of causing outbreaks in healthcare facilities. The deadly organis..

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• Recalled Frozen Strawberries Could Make Coloradans Very Sick

  

  DENVER (CBS4) – A recall on frozen strawberries because of hepatitis A could impact Coloradans. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the strawberries were imported from Egypt and used at different restaurants across Colorado. The fruit could be the source of an outbreak in other states but so far no hepatitis cases have been reported in Colorado. The strawberries weren’t being sold in retail or grocery stores in Colorado, but two restaurants are confirmed to have been served the ..

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