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Safety inspections don't hurt businesses-study BOSTON (Reuters) - Random inspections of U.S. industrial workplaces lower the risk of workers being injured on the job and have no measurable negative effect on the companies inspected, according to a study in the journal Science. Companies chosen...
Thu, 17 May 2012 18:29:13 GMT Sex, age may affect athletes' concussion recovery NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Female and high school athletes may need more time to recover from a concussion than their male or college counterparts, a new study finds. Researchers found that of 222 young athletes who suffered a concussion, female ...
Thu, 17 May 2012 18:23:23 GMT Fate of 'uninsurables' hinges on Supreme Court Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance. Nonetheless, she says she'd be dead if it weren't for President Barack Obama's health care law.
Thu, 17 May 2012 18:10:06 GMT Benefits of Widespread Statin Use Outweigh Risks: Study THURSDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- Statins -- commonly used cholesterol-lowering drugs -- can significantly lower the risk for heart disease in people with no history of vascular disease, according to a new study.
Thu, 17 May 2012 18:06:10 GMT Drowning Is Leading Cause of Kids' Accidental Death: CDC THURSDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- Drowning kills more American children 1 to 4 years old than any cause except birth defects, according to a new federal report.
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The Secret Life Of California's World-Class Strawberries We may romanticize that strawberries are grown down the road, but most of them come from California. And a complex web of plant cloning practices, relocation and fumigation has cropped up to keep it that way. Although scientists are exploring new options, like soil-free growing.
Thu, 17 May 2012 15:21:00 -0400 Feds: Fire Season Off to Slow Start Even As Wildfires Rage in Southwest As five large fires burn thousands of acres and threaten some communities in the Southwest, federal response teams say they have plenty of resources available and that this wildfire season is actually getting off to a slow start.
Thu, 17 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400 The Essence Of Science Explained In 63 Seconds Legendary scientist Reichard Feynman offered a simple but profound lesson about how we understand the world in a lecture at Cornell in 1964. The world, it is presumed, works perfectly well without us. How we think about it makes no important difference.
Thu, 17 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400 Fracking's Methane Trail: A Detective Story Natural gas is a much cleaner-burning fuel than coal, so the gas boom going on around the country is often touted as a win for the environment. But no one really knows how much pollution is created by gas drilling. One scientist stumbled upon data that suggest the process may be dirtier than billed.
Thu, 17 May 2012 03:24:00 -0400 CDC Cuts Lead-Poisoning Limit For Kids The public health honchos agreed with an expert panel that recommended in January that anything greater than 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood for kids 5 and younger should be considered dangerous. That's half the current standard and represents the first reduction since 1991.
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