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Hospitals across the U.S. are experiencing shortages of generic prescription drugs and doctors are pointing the finger at pharmaceutical companies. Dr.

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Many important hospital drugs no longer readily available, in part because Big Pharma doesn't profit well off generic drugs

A so-called “Dreamliner” is set to finally become a reality when All Nippon Airways (ANA) flies its brand new Boeing 787 out of Paine Field in Everett, Wash., on Tuesday. [More]

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East often meets West and vice versa, but did North frequently meet South when it comes to the history of people and technological innovations migrating across the continents? New genetic analysis suggests the way that continents are oriented may indeed have played a key role in our cultural interactions over time

By Melissa Gaskill of Nature magazine Heart-breaking pictures of seabirds covered in black crude oil, arresting as they are, can miss the hidden story of an oil spill's impact on wildlife. Exposure to even tiny concentrations of the chemicals present in oil can also cause harmful biological effects that usually go unnoticed, according to a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .

Harvard study shows that the more coffee women drink, the lower their risk for depression

186 couples were assigned to receive online or in-person counseling sessions, for study published in September 26 issue of Cancer

A few dozen nanoseconds, an imperceptibly slim interval in everyday life, can make all the difference in experimental physics. A European physics collaboration made a stunning announcement September 23, after having clocked elementary particles called neutrinos making the underground journey from a lab in Switzerland to one in Italy

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg shook things up at the social media/news interface when he announced Facebook's upcoming partnerships with a number of major news organizations. The Washington Post's Social Reader already looks like a slick piece of work , and apps such as that from other news organizations could dramatically change the way 750 million people (give or take) encounter and read news on the web.

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Drug approved for treatment of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, a.k.a. aHUS

Who will be next to get to the moon? Maybe China

American Society of Plastic Surgeons spotlights cautionary tale of 40-year-old woman's botched surgeries