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Feed SubscriptionExtreme Weather and Climate Change: The Complete Series
The evidence is in: global warming has caused severe floods, droughts and storms. We present a three-part series by John Carey, who was funded by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and other selections from the editors [More]
Read More »Overprescribing the Healthy Elderly: Why Funding Research and Drug Safety is Paramount
My frail, 92-year-old mother was prescribed 80 mgs of the cholesterol-lowering drug, or statin, simvastatin for years. She fell four times in the last four years of her life: the last fall was the least forgiving.
Read More »Charlotte’s Getting Shabby: Aging Spiders Weave Messy Webs
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Read More »Video: Holiday weekend food safety tips
Jeff Benedict, author of "Poisoned" speaks to Armen Keteyian about food regulation in the U.S. and tips to stay safe on this holiday weekend.
Read More »Video: Europe e coli outbreak prompts focus on U.S. food
The recent e coli outbreak in Europe has prompted a renewed focus on the safety of food in the U.S. With next year's proposed budget cuts for regulators, Armen Keteyian reports on the status of food safety.
Read More »Google+ Privacy Issue, The Plans For MySpace (TimberSpace?), Apple Squeezing Amazon’s Tablet, Anti-Piracy In Finland
Google+ has a privacy hole, Specific Media has big plans for MySpace, Timberlake (including his own office!).
Read More »From Nuclear Plant to Nuclear Park?
Twenty-five years after the tragedy at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine, tons of concrete shield workers and visitors from the puddle of dangerously radioactive melted fuel that lurks in the basement. In contrast, more than 30 years after the accident at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa., the next-door twin of the partially melted-down reactor is still in operation and surrounded by homes.
Read More »How Do We Solve Energy Poverty?
Each year, human civilization consumes some 14 terawatts of power, mostly provided by burning the fossilized sunshine known as coal, oil and natural gas. That's 2,000 watts for every man, woman and child on the planet
Read More »Europe’s E. coli outbreaks linked to Egyptian seeds
By Kate Kelland and Eric Kelsey LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) - Imported fenugreek seeds from Egypt may be the source of highly toxic E. coli outbreaks in Germany and France that have killed at least 48 people, according to initial investigations by European scientists
Read More »Europe’s E. coli outbreaks linked to Egyptian seeds
By Kate Kelland and Eric Kelsey LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) - Imported fenugreek seeds from Egypt may be the source of highly toxic E. coli outbreaks in Germany and France that have killed at least 48 people, according to initial investigations by European scientists. [More]
Read More »Virologist Advocates Vaccinating Only Boys for HPV to Prevent Cervical Cancer
LINDAU, Germany--A vaccine to prevent infections of cancer-causing human papilloma virus (HPV) is currently approved for use in the U.S. in boys and girls and in the UK in girls.
Read More »Cheyenne Woods advances in Publinks
Qualifying medallist Cheyenne Woods, the niece of Tiger Woods, advanced to the second round of match play in the Women's U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, beating Ashley Edwards 4 and 3 on Wednesday at Bandon Dunes' Old Macdonald course.
Read More »Harlem barbershops, salons double as health clinics
Turning his head from side to side as he checks his reflection in the barbershop mirror, Terrell Mack seems pretty pleased with his haircut -- a tight, neat crop -- but he can't get up from the chair just yet.
Read More »Bill Gates: Lagging Research On Diseases Of Poor Is A Market Failure
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