Sometimes when I think of the human brain,the theme from"Star Trek"starts playing in my own head.It's the music of great unknowns—and in certain ways the human brain,with more connections between its cells than there are galaxies in ...
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"Where are the robots?" That was what many people were asking when events at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant spiraled out of control in March 2011. With deadly levels of radiation collecting inside the damaged reactors, attempting to ...
North American labor rights groups welcomed a landmark agreement, announced, to deliver an estimated $40 million in compensation to the families of those killed in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh and called on Walmart, ...
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The bankrupt Boston-area pharmacy that allegedly made tainted steroid injections which sickened hundreds and killed 64 will compensate victims, officials say. Paul D. Moore, the bankruptcy trustee involved in the negotiations with the ...
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Editor's note: 2013 saw dozens of well-publicized foodborne illness outbreaks. While many of them were found to have sickened a handful of individuals, a few stood out as especially wide in scope.?Food Safety News?has compiled a list of 10 ...
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The number of U.S. teens who wind up in the emergency room after taking the club drug Ecstasy has more than doubled in recent years, raising concerns that the hallucinogen is back in vogue, federal officials report. Emergency room visits ...
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Caution is required when using portable bed rails because they put people at risk for falling or becoming trapped, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns. Portable bed rails attach to a normal, adult-sized bed, often by sliding a ...
Sealed Air and Pepsi-Cola Philippines (PCCPI) have joined forces with various other global companies to supply around 300,000 liters of potable drinking water encased in water pouches to the Philippines. The companies have taken the ...
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The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. and its overseas group companies have made donations to the Red Cross in their respective countries to support that organization's efforts to aid victims of the devastating typhoon that struck the Philippines in ...
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The number of U.S.child abuse and neglect victims dropped for the sixth consecutive year in 2012,Department of Health and Human Services officials said. A report by the department's Administration for Children and Families estimated there ...
As the safe food project of The Pew Charitable Trusts released its report on weaknesses in Salmonella regulation on Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offered an update on the ongoing outbreak of ...
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Morphine appears to reduce the effectiveness of the commonly used blood-thinning drug Plavix, which could hamper emergency-room efforts to treat heart attack victims, Austrian researchers report. The finding could create serious dilemmas ...
A New Jersey nursing scholar says bullying occurs not only among elementary and high school students, it also occurs among those in academia. Study co-author Janice Beitz, a professor at the Rutgers School of Nursing-Camden, said ...
Anticorrosive coating rule table, the rule of law cathode. But once the anti-corrosion coating is damaged, exposed iron part will accelerate localized corrosion. Therefore, anti-corrosion coating and cathodic protection is relative to the ...
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Two “sinister playground bullies” have been jailed for a brazen attempt to extort a 50 percent share of a Manchester-based online casino using the threat of DDoS attacks capable of taking the business offline. Polish ...
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