States seek to restrain prescriptions for children
Children return to classrooms this fall amid an increasingly pitched battle over Ritalin and other medicines used to treat millions with behavioral and emotional problems in school. Drug companies
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Study challenges notion of health benefit from religious activities
Religion and good health go hand in hand. Or so some researchers have asserted in studies. But in a study published, researchers contend that some forms of religious anxiety may in fact increase the
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Meetings as planned
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund should devote such time as is required to their joint meeting next month in Washington. To do anything less would be a concession to the organizers
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Anything but green
President George.W. Bush has been quietly filling key sub cabinet posts with conservative activists and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers criticizing the laws they are now sworn to
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Smoke grounds planes in Malaysia
Smoke from fires started by farmers clearing land on Borneo grounded some flights in East Malaysia's Sarawak state. Flights out of the northern Sarawak town of Miri were first canceled because of
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2d Navy ship collides with a whale
For the second time in two weeks, a U.S. Navy ship off Southern California has collided with a whale, known in Navy jargon as a "large
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Agency to list 10 sources of stem cells for researchers
The national Institutes of Health planned to announce the names Monday of 10 organizations that possess human embryonic stem cells eligible for use by federally financed researchers. The list has
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Doctors' dirty needles spread hepatitis in China
China's love affair with injections and infusions is becoming a medical nightmare, spreading illness rather than curing it, experts say. In large part because syringes and needles are often
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Biologists question Bush policy on stem cells
Mounting uncertainties about the quantity and quality of embryonic stem cells available for research under a new Bush Administration policy have persuaded many biologists that the president's
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Tanzanina gags press over AIDS
Tanzania, like much of sub-Saharan Africa has been hit hard by AIDS. An estimated 10 percent of the population either has the disease or is infected with HIV, the virus that causes it. But the