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A Common Parasite May be Linked to Brain Cancers

Growing Fear in U.S. Over Alzheimer’s Disease [VIDEOS]

The Harvard School of Public Health and Alzheimer Europe conducted a telephone survey of 2,678 people who were at least 18 years of age across the U.S. and Europe, and they found that about 25 percent of responders feared getting the disease.
At Issue: U.S. Health Care Services for Women

Medical Panel Recommends Free Birth Control

In a report released this week, Clinical Preventive Services for Women: Closing the Gaps, the Institute of Medicine recommends the full range of Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive meth­ods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity.
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Heat Wave Spreads From Midwest to NY: At Least 12 Deaths Nationwide

The heat wave that was spread from the Midwest to the Northeast objectively annoyed millions and blackouts and weather-related deaths ran rampant. The National Weather Service issues a warning of excessive heat in many states including Oklahoma, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
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Has First Glimpse of Higgs boson, the God Particle, Been Detected?

Researchers announced Friday that they detected what is believed to be the first glimpse of the Higgs boson, or God particle. The findings come from two teams in Geneva, at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, the European particle physics lab where the world's most powerful atom smasher is.
Nurses move permanent vegetative state patient at Franziska Schervier intensive care nursing home in Frankfurt

Optimism Decreases Stroke Risk: Study

Optimism reduces risk of stroke, said a new research report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. The study surveyed 6044 adults over 50 and asked them to rate their level of optimism according to a 16 point scale.
Artist rendering of a quasar

What On Earth is a Quasar? [PHOTOS]

Stars, like the sun, are sources that emit (for a portion of its life) light from its body into space. When light is emitted into space from a single point of origin - but that point of origin isn't a star -astronomers call that point a quasi-stellar (i.e. star) radio source, or quasar.
A worker processes turkeys at the West Liberty Food processing plant in West Liberty, Iowa July 7, 2011.

Brine-Injected Meat Should be Labeled: US Govt

Brine-injected meat is composed of 40 percent salt water, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture Friday. The USDA proposed a rule that will require companies to disclose the information.
A worker processes turkeys at the West Liberty Food processing plant

Brine-injected Meat 40 Percent Salt Water: USDA

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday that brine-injected meat is composed of 40 percent salt water and proposed a rule that would require companies to disclose this information. Currently, raw meat and poultry products that contain added solutions such as water, teriyaki sauce, salt, or a mixture thereof may have the same name on their labels as products that do not contain added solutions, said a USDA statement Friday.
What Activates Supermassive Black Holes

What Activates Supermassive Black Holes?

Most of the huge black holes in the centers of galaxies in the past 11 billion years were not activated by galactic collisions, as had been previously thought, a new study reveals.
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Heat Wave: West Point Cadet Dies

An 18-year old West Point cadet died while participating in field drills on Thursday and the most recent heat wave might be to blame.
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No More Blood Tests for TB, Says WHO

The World Health Organization has strongly advised against using blood tests for tuberculosis, citing the tests' unreliability and dangerousness.
Space Shuttle Atlantis Lands

Private Firms Compete for the Next Big Market: Space

Now that NASA's shuttle program has ended, a a new constellation of companies is set to respond to the sudden demand for firms with the capability to transport humans to the International Space Station, and eventually the moon.
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Branson Says Space Hotels Are Not Far Off

The landing of the Atlantis space shuttle that put an end to 500 million miles of space travel on Thursday has sparked lights in Billionaire Richard Branson's entrepreneurial mind as he prepares to make space tourism possible.

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