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National briefs: NASA urges trapped miners to exercise
A team of NASA doctors and engineers recommended Friday that Chilean authorities regulate the day-and-night sleep patterns of 33 trapped miners, boost their Vitamin D intake and phase in an exercise program as their nutrition improves.
Read more...The deadly dish that poisoned our lives: How The Horse Whisperer's Nicholas Evans almost killed his own family with ...
The author of The Horse Whisperer picked what he thought were edible mushrooms on estate of his Scottish clan chief brother-in-law. But the dish left both them and his wife critically ill needing kidney transplants.
Read more...Study finds acupuncture can control side effects of cancer treatment
Recent studies have shown that acupuncture can help control a number of symptoms and side effects such as pain, fatigue, dry mouth, nausea, and vomiting associated with a variety of cancers and their treatments.
Read more...Arsenic: Victorians' secret
UW medical historian Dr. James C. Whorton explains how arsenic poisoned 19th-century Britain, as the government regulators looked the other way. Even Darwin partook.
Read more...Science's policy clout diminished, but oil risk looms large
( SAGE Publications UK ) More people are likely to believe scientific studies claiming that oil drilling is riskier, not safer, than was previously thought, according to a new study of attitudes in California. What's more the findings, which appear in the journal Public Understanding of Science, published by SAGE, show that scientists' efforts to influence public opinion have a limited effect.
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