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Letters: Sexism and the Plan B debate
Re "A birth control double standard," Opinion, May 20 Bravo to Meg Waite Clayton's articulate Op-Ed regarding society's double standard for male and female sexuality, and the Obama administration's consequent restriction of access to emergency...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Plan B (drug), Standards, Tylenol (drug), Birth Control
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DNA evidence in model's death 'overwhelming,' prosecutor says
A Los Angeles prosecutor told jurors Wednesday that there was overwhelming DNA and other evidence to show that a mortgage broker assaulted and strangled an aspiring model in Santa Monica. Genetic testing proved that Kelly Soo Park's DNA was found on the...
Tags: Mortgages, Lawyers, Murder, Biotechnology Industry, General Practitioners
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Woman charged with strangling model had no motive, lawyer says
A businesswoman accused of beating and strangling an aspiring model in Santa Monica five years ago had no motive to carry out the killing, a defense attorney told a downtown Los Angeles jury Wednesday. Attorney George Buehler said in his closing...
Tags: Lawyers, Murder, Trials, Biotechnology Industry, General Practitioners
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FDA panel backs a new sleep drug
An advisory panel to the Food & Drug Administration has recommended approval of a new sleep drug that targets the brain's wakefulness centers, but suggested the agency should consider a dose of the drug, called suvorexant, lower than that proposed by...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Food and Drug Administration, Merck & Company Incorporated, Trials, Insomnia
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Closing arguments heard in businesswoman's murder trial
Kelly Soo Park balked when homicide detectives handed her a warrant to collect her fingerprints. The businesswoman repeatedly asked whether the officers were playing a joke and demanded to speak to a lawyer, according to a police recording of the...
Tags: Lawyers, Judges, Murder, Trials, Biotechnology Industry
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On genetically engineered food, let the market decide
The movement to force the labeling of genetically engineered food is gaining momentum. In November 2012, an initiative to require the labels in California was on the ballot; it was defeated. Now, federal legislation carried by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif....
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Genetic Engineering, Biotechnology Industry, Consumers, Arable Farming
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RNA was a key ingredient in primordial soup that led to life
How did we go from a lifeless Earth with no oxygen to a planet teeming with life and that essential element? Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found one crucial clue: iron and RNA. The team managed to re-create conditions of life on...
Tags: Biology, Biotechnology Industry, NASA, Science and Technology
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Scientists sequence Norway spruce DNA. The tree's genome is LONG
Researchers reported Wednesday that they had sequenced the genome of the Norway spruce, a giant evergreen native to Europe that has also been planted widely in parts of North America. Published in the journal Nature, the catalog of the tree's DNA was...
Tags: Norway, Science, Biotechnology Industry, Washington State University, Science and Technology
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Some could have gaps in medical coverage under new law
When the national healthcare law takes full effect next year, millions of Americans risk disrupted health coverage because of common life events: getting married or divorced, having children or taking on a second job. As their family incomes change,...
Tags: Diabetes, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Social Issues, Pharmaceuticals, Medicaid
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It's finals week: Do you know what your teen is taking to study so hard?
By the end of high school, 12% of teens say they have taken a stimulant medication for reasons other than to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But parents, including many of those whose kids are taking ADHD drugs in a bid to boost...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Behavioral Conditions, Social Sciences, Values, Vyvanse (drug)
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Ketamine: a potential rescue drug for depression takes a step forward
For years, physicians have been inching their way to a better understanding of how -- and how well -- the drug ketamine, a "twilight drug" used to sedate some patients before a painful procedure, can lift someone with severe depression almost...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Social Sciences, Trials, Culture, General Practitioners
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How to avoid a return to the hospital
The only thing less pleasant than a stay in the hospital is having to go right back there to deal with complications. And experts say it happens all too often. One in 8 elderly patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged...
Tags: Conservation, Medicaid, Dwayne Johnson, Medical Procedures and Tests, Online Media Industry
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