Instacart will show advertisements on the high-tech shopping carts it sells to grocery stores, the latest addition to the company’s growing ads business and a sign of investment in products outside grocery delivery. The company will begin advertising on the carts, which include self-checkout and are equipped with cameras and sensors to detect items, at … Read more
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Salton City, California — Damien Lopez, age 4, has symptoms that many people who live near Southern California’s Salton Sea also have. “His cough gets very wheezy. I try to control him,” his mother Michelle Lopez said. “Control” often means visiting pediatric nurse Christina Galindo at Pioneers Memorial Hospital. “I can see up to 25 … Read more
This winter’s heavy rainfall could lead to an increase in valley fever, a disease caused by fungus that grows in the dirt across many parts of California. Ashley Cooper/Getty Images California health officials are warning of a potential increased risk of valley fever, a respiratory disease caused by fungus that grows in soil across many … Read more
CNN — Residents in the Southwest are bracing for heavy rains and potentially catastrophic flooding as Hurricane Hilary is expected to pummel the region as a rare tropical storm beginning Sunday and lasting into next week. Hilary remains a Category 4 hurricane as it marches toward the coast of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula with sustained … Read more
CNN — Concern is growing Hurricane Hilary will unleash a prolific amount of flooding rainfall on the southwestern US and parts of California as it makes a rare move over the region Sunday and into early next week, triggering a tropical storm warning for parts of Southern California. Hilary could dump more than a year’s … Read more
A ketogenic meal laid out on a dining table with the hands of people serving themselves. A keto diet is a low carb, high fat diet that avoids many fruits. Fertnig/Getty Images At 4 a.m. the Friday before Christmas, I lay curled up and crying on my bedroom floor, convinced my son was no longer … Read more