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By Virginia Gewin of Nature magazine A new screening test makes use of urine, rather than blood, to identify the men most at risk of prostate cancer, and may even provide information about how aggressive a tumor is likely to be. The standard screening test for prostate cancer is a blood test for a protein called prostate specific antigen (PSA)

Many new cancer drugs are often made by single manufacturers, so any disruption can result in shortages that threaten lives

USDA announces massive recall amid salmonella outbreak that has killed one person and sickened at least 76 nationwide

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Arctic ice cover receded to near record lows this summer, opening elusive northern trade routes from Asia to the West, Russia's climate research agency said on Wednesday. After the third hottest year on record since 1936 in the Arctic last year, ice cover has melted as much as 56 percent more than average across northern shipping routes, making navigation in the perilous waters "very easy," it said. [More]

When a sustainability consulting firm told Swedish burger chain Max Burgers that its main problem was selling beef, the company actually started trying to sell less of its main product. Okay, you're a burger chain.

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Competition draws scores of entries - which revamped design took top honors?

Clemson university researchers create device that tracks wrist motion while eating, similar to pedometer

In a new age of advertising, why do we rely on metrics born of an era before Facebook and Twitter? Crowdtap wants to introduce a new metric, "Brand Influence." Crowdtap , a company that helps brands engage audiences, thinks it has found a better way to measure the success of ad campaigns. Today, the company is issuing a report announcing a new metric, “Brand Influence,” that it claims offers a more accurate measure of a campaign’s success than traditional metrics born before the advent of social media.

iPhone Launch Dates Until recently, we'd been thinking the iPhone 5 would arrive in the August-September timeframe, with the date firming up around the mid-September period.

Science Online New York City (or #SONYC on online social networks) is a monthly event happening in New York City. [More]

If you like to surf porn on the Internet, you've got company. [More]

Laughing out loud brings reduced lung function in patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

By Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Oppressive heat baked the southern Central Plains on Wednesday as the region braced for another stifling day of triple-digit weather, forecasters said. [More]

Medical marijuana is a growth industry, especially in tiny Williams, Ore.