LONDON (Reuters) - France's Total started pumping heavy mud down its leaking well in the North Sea on Tuesday to try to stop an escape of gas that has lasted nearly eight weeks and could deprive Britain of nearly 6 percent of its supply this summer. "The well intervention operation got underway at 4.20 a.m. [More]
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FDA announced Tuesday new suppliers to help ease shortage of doxil and methotrexate
Read More »Counterfeit cancer drug Avastin circulating in U.S., company warns
Roche's Genentech unit said Tuesday that the fake products do not contain the key ingredient in Avastin
Read More »Video: Leslie Carter dead at 25
Leslie Carter, the sister of The Backstreet Boy's Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter, died on Tuesday at the age of 25. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Read More »Video: Leslie Carter dead at 25
Leslie Carter, the sister of The Backstreet Boy's Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter, died on Tuesday at the age of 25. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Read More »Video: Leslie Carter dead at 25
Leslie Carter, the sister of The Backstreet Boy's Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter, died on Tuesday at the age of 25. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Read More »Video: Leslie Carter dead at 25
Leslie Carter, the sister of The Backstreet Boy's Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter, died on Tuesday at the age of 25. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Read More »Condoms required in L.A. porn films, council rules
Actors in adult movies filmed in America's pornography capital would be required to use condoms under an ordinance granted final approval Tuesday by the Los Angeles City Council.
Read More »Low-cost DNA reader announced: What does it mean for patients?
Two U.S. companies announced Tuesday DNA sequencing machine at target cost of $1,000
Read More »Will knowing your DNA motivate you to lose weight?
The claim by Ion Torrent on Tuesday that a reasonably affordable machine capable of mapping an individual’s complete genetic makeup for $1,000 will be ready by the end of the year has technology geeks in a tizzy.
Read More »Ballot Secrecy Keeps Voting Technology at Bay
Voters in the recent Iowa caucuses and Tuesday's New Hampshire primary will rely on paper ballots as they have for generations. In the very next primary on January 21, South Carolinians will vote with backlit touch-screen computers. [More]
Read More »Huge Oilfield Off Coast of Nigeria Shut Down After Leak
LONDON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell is shutting down its huge 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) Bonga oilfield off the Nigerian coast after a leak occurred while loading a tanker on Tuesday, the firm said in a statement. [More]
Read More »Family Gold Mining Poisons Children in Nigeria
Large numbers of infants and toddlers have died from lead poisoning in Nigerian villages where their parents process gold ore inside their family compounds, according to a report published Tuesday by an international team of researchers. [More]
Read More »FDA warns gastric band surgical centers over misleading ads
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Read More »Tantalizing Hints of Elusive Higgs Particle Announced [Update]
GENEVA--The two largest collaborations of physicists in history Tuesday presented intriguing but tentative clues to the existence of the Higgs boson , the elementary particle thought to endow ordinary matter with mass.
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