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Published May 23rd, 2013 - 4:22PM
An 11-year study of the incidence of brain cancer at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney in the state ended Thursday with university researchers saying they found no statistically significant elevations in the rate of cancer among workers.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 2:42PM
Health officials investigating a cluster of mysterious illnesses in Alabama closed their investigation Thursday after determining the illnesses were unrelated and no new bacteria or viruses were involved.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 1:42PM
Weather forecasters are predicting another busy Atlantic hurricane season. The storms will get their names from an alphabetical list of 21 names:
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 11:52AM
Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 11:12AM
For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 10:47AM
A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 10:37AM
Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is challenging the part of the federal health care law that requires for-profit companies to offer employees health coverage that includes products the business owners find morally objectionable, such as certain types of contraception.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 10:27AM
Get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe an unusually wild one, federal forecasters say.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 9:52AM
The eastern New Mexico peanut butter plant shuttered eight months ago after a salmonella outbreak is back in production, and company officials say their coveted natural and organic butters could be back on store shelves within a month.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 7:32AM
International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 7:27AM
Reading, writing, arithmetic - and PE?
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 12:52AM
In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 9:12PM
The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report.
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 9:12PM
The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 4:47PM
Voters approved a law limiting the number of medical pot shops in Los Angeles after politicians failed for years to corral the blossoming industry.


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