In experiments with rodents, scientists have discovered that a steroid hormone blunts the effects of marijuana, virtually eliminating its high. The hormone, pregnenolone, occurs naturally in the body. In the laboratory, it worked by ...
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Expectant mothers who smoke marijuana may triple their risk for a stillbirth, a new study suggests. The risk is also increased by smoking cigarettes, using other legal and illegal drugs and being exposed to secondhand smoke. Stillbirth ...
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Recognizing that farmers and their downstream customers share a desire to see the best possible qualities in wheat, Dr. John Oades developed and implemented a new way for overseas customers to have direct input in U.S. wheat quality. He ...
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California's marketplace director reports enrollment for health insurance increased to 15,000 per day,a non-profit group specializing in healthcare says. Sara Collins and Tracy Garber of the Commonwealth Fund in New York said following ...
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Those wanting to serve their guests healthier wines should look for the darkest-colored reds made from grapes grown in the sunniest vineyards, U.S. experts say. Dr. Leroy Creasy, a wine researcher and professor emeritus at Cornell ...
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Gina Kavesh and Dorothy Nichols have been elected to fill two vacant positions on the USA Cycling Board of Directors, USAC announced this week. Kavesh is also a member of the USAC road committee and Nichols is a menber of the mountain ...
The 2013 Capitol Christmas Tree began its cross-country journey this week from the Colville National Forest near Usk, Washington to the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol on a 2014 Mack Pinnacle Axle Back model. More than 300 people joined the ...
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Glass Onion Catering in Richmond, Calif., recalled about 182,000 pounds of salads and wraps after 26 people got sick eating their products, officials say. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Sunday ...
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Glass Onion Catering in Richmond, Calif., recalled about 182,000 pounds of salads and wraps after 26 people got sick eating their products, officials say. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Sunday ...
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No water for agriculture is slow-moving disaster At least $68 million has been poured down a rat hole thanks a bunch of brainless anarchists who don't seem to understand that the public is not fearful of genetically modified food and sees ...
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Cloud Peak Energy completed a test burn shipment to Japan during the third quarter and continues to look toward Asia for future demand growth, as increased domestic demand for US Powder River Basin coal during the period failed to boost ...
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz speaks about clean energy revolution in the U.S. in an article recently posted on Department of Energy website. For decades, America has chased after the promise of clean, domestic energy. But even ...
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The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) has suspended the license of food processor G. Wolf for violating food processing standards and on-going sanitation problems at its facility. The company's food processing operations ...
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Siberoni, a frozen food manufacturer, is recalling 169,655 pounds of raw and frozen meat and poultry ravioli products, which were produced without the benefit of inspection, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and ...
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Why peaches were so good this summer Washington State University (WSU) researchers have tested 1,900 advanced breeding lines of wheat and more than 20,000 individual wheat plots and did not find any evidence of a herbicide-resistance ...
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