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December 8, 2011 4:04 PM
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Plan B Ruling Ignores Solid Science, Says FDA Head
The Obama Administration took power with the promise that politics wouldn't trump science, but many now argue that it has not always lived up to that pledge. Fallout continued today...
December 1, 2011 7:07 PM
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Chorus of Presidents, Rock Stars, and Industry Titans Calls for End to AIDS
Today, two lunchtime diners in downtown Washington, D.C., looked up from their burgers at the television in the corner, saw rock stars Bono and Alicia Keys live on CNN...
October 18, 2011 3:32 PM
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Attack on Radiation Geneticists Triggers Furor
Allegations that two radiation geneticists suppressed scientific evidence over 60 years ago have triggered a fierce debate among scientists and historians of science. At stake is the legacy of...
October 5, 2011 11:43 AM
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U.K. Pledges £20 Million to Finish Off Guinea Worm
LONDON—The hardest part of a journey is often the last mile. Twenty-five years after health workers started a campaign to rid the world of the guinea worm, cases have been...
Danish Archipelago Launches Mass Sequencing Plan
The inhabitants of the Faroe Islands could become the world's first population to be offered full genome sequencing for free, researchers announced at a meeting on personal genomes at...
September 30, 2011 5:39 PM
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Canada's Top Court Keeps Injecting Drug Use Site Open
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a “safe injection site” in Vancouver that aims to thwart the spread of HIV can continue to operate, providing a place for...
September 21, 2011 4:43 PM
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2011 Nobel Prize Predictions Roll In
Are cancer researchers Brian Druker, Nicholas Lydon, and Charles Sawyers becoming the Jon Hamms of the science world? Hamm, the suave star of the TV hit Mad Men, is...
July 22, 2011 1:22 PM
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A Common TB Test Is Inaccurate, WHO Warns Countries
This week the World Health Organization (WHO) blasted the use of unreliable blood tests commonly used to diagnose active TB, as well as the aggressive marketing used to promote them....
China's Health Care Reform Looks to Science
SHANGHAI—No matter where you stand on "Obamacare," the derisive term given to President Barack Obama's attempt to mandate health care for Americans, you'll be blown away by the sheer...
May 24, 2011 6:21 PM
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After U.S. Pressure, Smallpox Wins Reprieve Again
The smallpox virus, on death row for decades, has been given another stay of execution. The World Health Assembly (WHA), an annual meeting of health ministers in Geneva, decided today...
May 13, 2011 4:43 PM
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Texas's Cancer Fund Lures Leading Stem Cell Researcher
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, stem cell researcher Sean Morrison, an outspoken proponent of allowing research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) in the state, has been wooed to Texas...
May 12, 2011 3:55 PM
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HIV Treatment Dramatically Prevents Heterosexual Transmission
A multicountry study has found that HIV-infected people who start antiretroviral (ARV) treatment at earlier stages of the disease lowered their risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners...
May 12, 2011 1:59 PM
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A New Push to Cure AIDS: 3 p.m. EDT Chat With Fauci
Today’s ScienceLive chat will include Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and scientists Steven Deeks and David Margolis. From our description: Beginning in...
May 11, 2011 11:50 AM
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Mega Gift Strengthens UPenn Med School
A power couple in Philadelphia philanthropy, Raymond and Ruth Perelman, have made one of the largest gifts ever to a medical school, The New York Times reported last night: $225...
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