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Pot Pain-Killer Under Consideration for Britons
Mon Feb 18, 9:40 AM ET - (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters) -
Britons suffering from multiple
sclerosis and other forms of severe pain could legally be
prescribed cannabis-based drugs within two years, health chiefs
said on Monday.
Smallpox Experiment Goes Well, Expert Says
Sun Feb 17, 4:28 PM ET
- (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
An experiment aimed at stretching
out current U.S. supplies of smallpox vaccine is going very
well, the head of the government agency sponsoring the tests
said on Sunday.
Plague Outbreak Claims New Victim in India
Mon Feb 18, 7:26 AM ET
- (Reuters)
CHANDIGARH, India (Reuters) -
A 30-year-old woman who had
been on a respirator died of suspected plague on Monday in
India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh even as authorities
said they had contained the outbreak of the disease.
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Science Moves Forward as Clone Debate Stalls
Sun Feb 17,11:13 AM ET
- (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
It is not often that Orrin Hatch,
the conservative Republican senator from Utah, and Dianne
Feinstein, the liberal Democratic senator from California,
agree on anything.
W.House Withdraws Documents on Major Germ Weapons
Sat Feb 16,10:41 PM ET
- (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
The Bush administration has begun
withdrawing from public release more than 6,000 documents that
deal primarily with the manufacture of chemical and germ
weapons, according to Sunday's New York Times.
Scientists Warn of Poisonous Lionfish Off Florida
Sat Feb 16,12:56 PM ET
- (Reuters)
St. Petersburg, Fla. (Reuters) -
After the "summer of the
shark," a new danger is lurking in Florida waters -- the exotic
yet venomous lionfish.
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Brain Scans Help Old Folks Improve Memory - Study
Sat Feb 16,12:44 PM ET
- (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
You may never be young again, but
time-honored memory tricks can make an old brain work like a
young one, researchers said on Saturday.
Norman Davidson, Molecular Biologist, Dies
Sat Feb 16, 4:22 PM ET
- (Reuters)
PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) -
Norman Davidson, a winner of
the U.S. National Medal of Science whose ground-breaking work
in molecular biology led to a better understanding of the
genetic basis of life, has died. He was 85.
Artificial Heart Patient Dies in Texas
Fri Feb 15,11:22 PM ET
- (Reuters)
DANVERS, Mass. (Reuters) -
ABIOMED Inc., maker of a
self-contained artificial heart, on Friday said that the third
person to receive the implant has died in a Texas hospital.
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Bush Endorses Nevada's Yucca as Nuclear Waste Site
Fri Feb 15, 5:28 PM ET
- (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
President Bush on Friday endorsed an
Energy Department recommendation to build a facility at
Nevada's Yucca Mountain to store 70,000 tons of nuclear waste,
setting off a pitched battle with the state likely to end up in
Congress.
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