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Bipartisan Senate bill would give EPA power to ban dangerous chemicals
In a rare display of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, a group of key senators unveiled legislation Wednesday that would require chemical companies to provide more health and safety information about their products and give regulators more power to force...Tags: Consumer Confidence, Frank Lautenberg, Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Issues, Environmental Defense Fund
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FDA panel backs a new sleep drug
An advisory panel to the Food & Drug Administration has recommended approval of a new sleep drug that targets the brain's wakefulness centers, but suggested the agency should consider a dose of the drug, called suvorexant, lower than that proposed by...
Tags: Elections, Trials, Pharmaceuticals, Science and Technology, Merck & Company Incorporated
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Closing arguments heard in businesswoman's murder trial
Kelly Soo Park balked when homicide detectives handed her a warrant to collect her fingerprints. The businesswoman repeatedly asked whether the officers were playing a joke and demanded to speak to a lawyer, according to a police recording of the...
Tags: Lawyers, Biotechnology Industry, Justice System, Trials, Judges
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Local Voices: Highland Park and Deerfield
Care for mentally ill I am grateful for the attention given to the issue of mental health and lack of appropriate programs and facilities available for those stricken with a mental illness. I am the sister and legal guardian for my brother, who has...
Tags: Philosophy, Psychology, Pharmaceuticals, Religion and Belief, Medical Specialization
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LETTER: Says Genetic Labeling Promotes Agenda
Activist groups pushing for GMO labeling believe that products of biotechnology are inherently dangerous and that consumers must be warned. Well, if these products are in fact dangerous, why don't the groups focus on removing them from the market? The...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Biotechnology, Technology, Science and Technology, Allergies
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Health care concerns
I'm not statistician enough to know how much of the story U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster's editorial ("Time to repeal Obamacare," May 16) tells, but surely we agree that the existing health care system deserved overhaul. We are a sick nation, getting sicker,...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pharmaceuticals, Bill Shuster
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RNA was a key ingredient in primordial soup that led to life
How did we go from a lifeless Earth with no oxygen to a planet teeming with life and that essential element? Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found one crucial clue: iron and RNA. The team managed to re-create conditions of life on...
Tags: Biotechnology Industry, NASA, Biology, Science and Technology
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US military praises Pakistan's steps to curb fertilizers used in Afghanistan bombs
Associated PressISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has taken a number of steps to prevent fertilizers made within its borders for agriculture from being used as explosives in roadside bombs that target American troops in Afghanistan, said a top U.S. military officer Monday....Tags: Islamabad (Pakistan), Explosions, Bombings, U.S. Military, Emergency Incidents
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Some could have gaps in medical coverage under new law
When the national healthcare law takes full effect next year, millions of Americans risk disrupted health coverage because of common life events: getting married or divorced, having children or taking on a second job. As their family incomes change,...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Personal Income, Asthma, Health Insurance, Diabetes
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Hospitals fare well in recent scorecard
Broward and Palm Beach county hospitals, like those across the rest of the nation, have received their spring report cards as scored by a nonprofit organization that advocates for safer health-care delivery. Nineteen local hospitals earned A grades,...Tags: Miramar, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Pembroke Pines, Melbourne
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Do You Know Your Blood Pressure Numbers?
Cardiologist and Hospital of Central Connecticut medical staff memberDo you remember the last time your blood pressure was checked and what the numbers were? While knowing your blood pressure numbers is important, it’s also good to know what those numbers mean and if you should take action to help lower them....Tags: Heart Failure, Pharmaceuticals, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Drugs and Medicines, High Blood Pressure
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It's finals week: Do you know what your teen is taking to study so hard?
By the end of high school, 12% of teens say they have taken a stimulant medication for reasons other than to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But parents, including many of those whose kids are taking ADHD drugs in a bid to boost...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Children's Health, Values, Drugs and Medicines, Education
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