A new Environmental Working Group study has found chlormequat, a little-known pesticide, in four out of five people tested. Because the chemical is linked to reproductive and developmental problems in animal studies, the ...
Environment
Feb 15, 2024
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Less than 0.02 per cent of potential active ingredients pass clinical tests and become commercially viable. However, it is possible that some candidates are rejected without good reason, suspects mathematician Prof Dr Holger ...
Mathematics
Apr 21, 2015
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The diagnostic test to determine cyanide exposure takes 24 hours.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 17, 2015
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Most people have heard about antibiotic-resistant germs. But how about antibiotic-resistant dust?
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 11, 2018
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More than half a million cats in the United States could be at risk of a severe or even fatal neurological reaction to the active ingredient in some top-selling parasite preventatives for felines.
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2024
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A coalition of consumer groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the US Food and Drug Administration over the use of human antibiotics in animal feed, saying it creates dangerous superbugs.
Environment
May 25, 2011
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(AP) -- Two lawmakers are requesting a review of the government's security standards for wireless medical devices after a diabetic discovered how to remotely reprogram his and other people's insulin pumps.
Other
Aug 20, 2011
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Two former federal agents are accused of using their positions and savvy computer skills to siphon more than $1 million in digital currency from the illegal black market Silk Road website while they and their agencies were ...
Internet
Mar 30, 2015
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The Justice Department has reached a $134,000 settlement with a New York woman after federal drug agents used information from her cellphone to set up a fake Facebook page in her identity, a tactic that raised privacy concerns ...
Other
Jan 20, 2015
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Although women continue to lag behind men in pay, the gender wage gap has narrowed considerably since the 1960s. Now a new University of Michigan study is the first to quantify the impact of the pill on women's ...
Economics & Business
Mar 27, 2012
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