Federal Food and Drug Administration officials approved a new weight-loss pill Wednesday, giving the nod to Belviq used in combination with a reduced-calorie diet and exercise to combat obesity.
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Feed SubscriptionReddit Cofounder, The Band’s Ex-Tour Manager Debate SOPA, Antipiracy, And Levon Helm’s Legacy [Video]
At Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference, things got heated between Reddit and Y Combinator's Alexis Ohanian and USC professor Jonathan Taplin, director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab, former tour manager of The Band, and friend of its drummer Levon Helm, who died the day after this debate. On Wednesday,
Read More »Low Doses of Hormonelike Chemicals May Have Big Effects
That is a main finding of a report , three years in the making, published Wednesday by a team of 12 scientists who study hormone-altering chemicals. [More]
Read More »FDA panel backs weight loss drug Qnexa
An experimental obesity drug from Vivus Inc won a U.S.
Read More »Whooping cough vaccines should be given to all adults, gov’t panel says
Pertussis vaccination recommendations should be expanded to include all those over age 65, federal advisory panel voted Wednesday
Read More »Risk of Heart Disease Underestimated, Researchers Say
Image courtesy of iStockphoto/energyy Heart disease is the leading killer in the U.S., and more than 27 million Americans currently have a cardiac condition . But what is your risk of developing heart disease at some point in your entire life? It might be a lot higher than you think, according to a new paper published online Wednesday in The New England of Medicine
Read More »FTC pulls plug on fake news sites pushing acai berry diet pills
Federal regulators announced settlements Wednesday with six online marketers accused of using fake news sites that promised substantial weight loss
Read More »Cyber-bullied girl with Huntingdon’s Disease dies
9-year-old Kathleen Edwards taunted by former neighbor in 2010 died Wednesday
Read More »CDC: More U.S. women having twins
In 1980, rate for twins was only 1 in every 53 babies, CDC said Wednesday
Read More »Pentagon-backed ‘time cloak’ stops the clock (Update)
Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable.
Read More »U.S. Rolls Out Tough Rules on Coal Plant Pollution
(Reuters) - The Obama administration on Wednesday unveiled the first-ever standards to slash mercury emissions from coal-fired plants , a move aimed at protecting public health that critics say will kill jobs as plants shut down. [More]
Read More »"Apps" Like Rolling Stone’s Could Shine A Light On Spotify’s Missing Links
Spotify's got a huge catalog of music and 10 million subscribers.
Read More »‘Alps under the Ice’ Give Clues to Global Warming
By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - The mystery of how a subglacial mountain range the size of the Alps formed up to 250 million years ago has finally been solved, scientists said on Wednesday, which could help map the effects of climate change. [More]
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Read More »First result from a new generation of reactor neutrino experiments
Physicists of the Double Chooz experiment detected a short-range disappearance of electron antineutrinos. They presented this result on Wednesday 9 November 2011 at the LowNu conference in Seoul, Korea. It helps determine the so-far unknown third neutrino mixing angle which is a fundamental property with important consequences for particle and astro-particle physics.
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