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Review: Sleigh Bells bring 'Treats,' 'Reign of Terror' to Mayan
Pop & HissWithin seconds of the group’s opening number, the floor had become a writhing mass of outstretched limbs, fists pumping in time to a beat that felt loud enough to crumble plaster. The band was eliminating the need for liquid encouragement by... -
FDA advisors endorse weight-loss drug Qnexa
A panel of medical experts voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to endorse the controversial weight-loss drug Qnexa, clearing the way for the Food and Drug Administration to approve a new prescription obesity medication for the first time since 1999.
The FDA...Tags: Birth Defects, Elections, Trials, Sleep Apnea, Heart Problems
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Federal raids a 'serious blow' to rhino trade
Federal wildlife investigators in California and other states say they have cracked an international smuggling ring that trafficked for years in sawed-off rhinoceros horns, which fetch stratospheric prices in Vietnam and China for their supposed cancer-...Tags: Marketing, Los Angeles International Airport, South Africa, Wildlife, Law Enforcement
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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: Susan Sontag, Hugh Hefner, U.S. Supreme Court, Freedom of the Press, Companies and Corporations
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Happy birthday, Edward Gorey! And more book news
Jacket CopyBook news: Edward Gorey's fur coat, David Foster Wallace remembered, a rare Action Comics No. 1 discovered, Justin Bieber to publish photo book, and Stephen Colbert's satirically bad children's book is on the way.... -
Colonoscopic polyp removal prevents cancer deaths, study says
Colon cancer is the third deadliest cancer in the U.S.; it is expected to kill more than 51,000 Americans this year, according to the American Cancer Society. Physicians have long assumed that removing precancerous polyps during patient colonoscopies...Tags: Health, Colonoscopy, Colon Cancer, Human Body, Blood
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Blind faith across the generations
I can't really pinpoint when my dad first started bringing home the powdery mixture, as white as sugar and as fine as beach sand.
He'd step into the kitchen and sprinkle it — three grams at a time — into some orange juice and stir to the...Tags: Calcium, Science, Radiation Therapy, Vitamin E, Nobel Prize Awards
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Venezuela President Hugo Chavez says he needs more surgery
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Tuesday that he will undergo surgery to repair a 1-inch "abscess" in the same abdominal area where Cuban doctors removed a cancerous tumor in June.
Chavez's surprise announcement, made during an official trip to...Tags: Hugo Chavez, Caracas (Venezuela), Health, Elections, Brazil
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Renato Dulbecco dies at 97; 1975 Nobel Prize winner in medicine
Dr. Renato Dulbecco, an Italian American virologist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for demonstrating how certain types of viruses invade mammalian cells to cause cancer, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in La Jolla....Tags: Preventative Medicine, Viral Diseases and Infections, Colleges and Universities, College Sports, Research
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Iranian commander issues new warning to 'enemies'
World NowREPORTING FROM BEIRUT -- A senior Iranian military commander seemed to warn Tuesday that Tehran would strike preemptively at any “threats” directed against the Islamic Republic. “We will no more wait to see enemy action against us,&#... -
Drug shortages: FDA fights problem, OKs sources of 2 cancer drugs
The Food and Drug Administration has moved to increase the supplies of two needed cancer-treatment drugs and on Tuesday issued a draft guidance on how to cope with the problem of drug shortages. The federal agency announced that it will temporarily allow...Tags: Health, Chemicals, Methotrexate (drug), Leukemia, Abraham Lincoln
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For Rick Santorum voters, it's character that counts
Suburban mom Judy Dlugosielski is a liberal Republican who favors abortion rights.
Yet as a crucial set of primaries nears, her choice for president is Rick Santorum, who would be the most conservative nominee of a major party in decades and a man who...Tags: Rick Santorum, Elections, Michele M. Bachmann, Abortion, Republican Party
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