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The DEA's marijuana mistake
For a muscular agency that combats vicious drug criminals, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration acts like a terrified and obstinate toddler when it comes to basic science. For years, the DEA and the National Institute for Drug Abuse have made it all...
Tags: Medical Research, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Crime, Law and Justice, Drugs and Medicines, Research
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Traces of melamine from dinnerware can seep into food, study says
Serving hot food on melamine tableware could increase your exposure to melamine, a study released Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine suggests. Â Melamine, an industrial chemical used in everyday items such as cooking utensils, plates,...
Tags: Medical Research, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Procedures and Tests, Consumers, Food and Drug Administration
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California officials mishandled child-abuse program, audit says
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Cancer death rates fall as HPV-associated cancers rise: U.S. report
This year’s Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, released online Monday, brought Americans good news and bad. Extending a trend since the early 1990s, authors reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that cancer...
Tags: Medical Research, Diseases and Illnesses, Breast Cancer, Drugs and Medicines, Obesity
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Gunmen kill 5 anti-polio workers in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Five female anti-polio workers in Pakistan were slain Tuesday by gunmen on motorcycles, police said, on the second day of a three-day national immunization campaign. Four of the women were killed in Karachi, the nation's largest...
Tags: Polio, Karachi (Pakistan), Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections, Pakistan
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Junior Seau's family sues NFL over his brain injuries
L.A. NOWThe family of football star Junior Seau is suing the National Football League, asserting that he committed suicide because of the brain injuries suffered during his career.... -
Gun lobby has squelched injury prevention research, doctors charge
One week after 20-year-old Adam Lanza used guns to kill 20 first-graders and seven adults before shooting himself, two physicians published a Viewpoint article in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. asking what the medical and public health...
Tags: Trials, Shootings, Court Preliminary, Lobbying, Personal Weapon Control
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Increase in vision problems could be linked to diabetes rise
An increase in vision problems that cannot be corrected with lenses may be related to an uptick in diabetes rates over the same period, researchers said Tuesday. The team, led by Dr. David S. Friedman of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...
Tags: Medical Research, Diseases and Illnesses, Symptoms, Obesity, Diabetes
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Here it comes: California reporting widespread flu illnesses
L.A. NOWThe severe flu that spread across the U.S. has arrived in California and is causing illnesses and hospitalizations in much of the state.... -
TV chefs' recipes too high in fat, calories for WHO recommendations
TV dinners got a relative thumbs up in a medical journal — when compared with recipes offered by TV chefs. Surprised? Turns out that the British TV dinners, called “ready meals” there – had fewer calories and less fat and fiber...
Tags: Recipes, Overweight, United Kingdom
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Beyond 7 billion: Bending the population curve
Hunger. Environmental degradation. Political instability. These were among the consequences of rapid global population growth documented in a five-part series in The Times in July. Now, Opinion has invited leading scholars to consider what, if anything,...
Tags: Ryerson Incorporated, Paul Kagame, Conservation, Religion and Belief, Virginia Tech
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Let there be dark
When I was a child, I knew real darkness. At my family's cabin on a Minnesota lake, I knew woods so dark that my hands disappeared before my eyes. I knew night skies in which meteors left smoky trails across sugary spreads of stars. But now, when 8 of...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Energy Saving, Conservation, Obesity, NASA
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