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Some blister packs were rotated 180 degrees, defective packaging may cause women to take the incorrect birth control dose
Read More »Exercise helps teen smokers quit: Study
Fourteen percent of teens who had physical activity education quit smoking, according to West Virginia study
Read More »Sperm bank to redheads: We don’t want your semen
Danish sperm bank not looking for red-headed donors, saying there's not much demand for it
Read More »What Will the Next Influenza Pandemic Look Like?
MALTA-- Contagion , a film released earlier this month, depicts a gruesome outbreak of an exotic and deadly new virus. In the real world, a not-so foreign infection is circulating among animals every day of every year
Read More »Bizarre bodies: 9 new world record holders from Guinness
Fattest woman, longest tongue, most piercings among new world records
Read More »PhD Comics Hits the Big Screen
The creator of the popular online comic strip " Piled Higher and Deeper " has turned it into a feature film.
Read More »Science Lags as Health Problems Emerge Near Natural Gas Fields
On a summer evening in June 2005, Susan Wallace-Babb went out into a neighbor's field near her ranch in Western Colorado to close an irrigation ditch. She parked down the rutted double-track, stepped out of her truck into the low-slung sun, took a deep breath and collapsed, unconscious. A natural gas well and a pair of fuel storage tanks sat less than a half-mile away.
Read More »Video: "Unforgettable" taps Marilu Henner for advice
Chris Wragge and Rebecca Jarvis talk to actress Poppy Montgomery, who plays a criminologist who remembers almost every moment of her life in the new CBS drama, "Unforgettable." That memory condition is a gift possessed in real-life by Actress Marilu Henner, who is now an adviser on the drama and was interviewed about her gift by "60 Minutes" correspondent, Lesley Stahl.
Read More »Child abuse rose during recession, study says: Why?
Rates of abusive head trauma almost doubled during recent recession, according to study of 74 counties in four states
Read More »UN summit puts global disease cost at $47 trillion by 2030
Mental health illnesses alone will account for $16 trillion in costs, lost wages, according to World Economic Forum
Read More »Video: Study reveals genetic link to optimism, self-esteem
Dr. Jennifer Hartstein speaks to the "Early Show" anchors about a new study that reveals a genetic link between general optimism and pessimism.
Read More »Conjoined twins connected at head separated in London
Series of operations successfully separate Sudanese twins joined at head
Read More »Video: Alternative therapies help kids cope with cancer
CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports on a program developed by a pediatrician at Bronx hospital that provides alternative therapies for children diagnosed with cancer in order to help them cope with the anxiety, fear and pain.
Read More »Synchronized swimming: patrolling for pollution with robotic fish
In landlocked East Lansing, Michigan, you're unlikely to swim with dolphins. [More]
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