Paper Tying Rat Cancer to Herbicide Is Retracted

A food safety journal has decided to retract a paper that seemed to show that genetically modified corn and the herbicide Roundup can cause cancer and premature death in rats. The editor of the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology, said in a letter...

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Bits Blog: The Vaccination Effect: 100 Million Cases of Contagious Disease Prevented

Vaccination programs for children have prevented more than 100 million cases of serious contagious disease in the United States since 1924, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The research, led by scientists...

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Britain Reconsiders Cigarette Regulation

LONDON — Until recently, the British government appeared to be on the verge of rejecting sweeping restrictions on cigarette packaging. But on Thursday it changed course, announcing a policy review that could lead to curbs on labeling and require the...

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World Briefing | Asia: North Korea: Malnutrition Persists

The World Food Program said Thursday that North Korea's food production had increased for the third year in a row but that mothers and children still lacked sufficient vitamins, fat and protein in their diets. The agency's representative in North Korea,...

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Online Health Law Sign-Up Is Delayed for Small Business

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a one-year delay in a major element of the new health care law that would allow small businesses to buy insurance online for their employees through the new federal marketplace. It was...

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National Briefing | Health: Abortion Numbers Down Again

Abortions in the United States have continued to decline, but not quite as steeply as in the past, figures released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. The number and rate of reported abortions fell 3 percent in 2010, the...

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A Part of Utah Built on Coal Wonders What Comes Next

PRICE, Utah — For generations, coal has been the lifeblood of this mineral-rich stretch of eastern Utah. Mining families proudly recall all the years they toiled underground. Supply companies line the town streets. Above the road that winds toward...

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Bits Blog: The Vaccination Effect: 100 Million Cases of Contagious Disease Prevented

Vaccination programs for children have prevented more than 100 million cases of serious contagious disease in the United States since 1924, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The research, led by scientists...

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The Cancer Divide: In Israel, a Push to Screen for Cancer Gene Leaves Many Conflicted

KFAR SABA, Israel — Ever since she tested positive for a defective gene that causes breast cancer, Tamar Modiano has harbored a mother's fear: that she had passed it on to her two daughters. Ms. Modiano had her breasts removed at 47 to prevent the disease...

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Merrell Williams Jr., Paralegal Who Bared Big Tobacco, Dies at 72

Merrell Williams Jr., a former paralegal who leaked mountains of internal documents of the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company in 1994, fueling lawsuits that resulted in an industry payout of billions of dollars to pay smokers' medical bills, died...

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Where is Breast Cancer?

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Well: The Power of a Daily Bout of Exercise

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. This week marks the start of the annual eat-too-much and move-too-little holiday season, with its attendant declining health and surging regrets. But a well-timed new study suggests that...

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As Homeless Line Up for Food, Los Angeles Weighs Restrictions

Monica Almeida/The New York Times A security guard from the Business Improvement District keeping an eye on a food truck operated by the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition. LOS ANGELES — They began showing up at dusk last week, wandering the...

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The Changing American Family

American households have never been more diverse, more surprising, more baffling. In this special issue of Science Times, NATALIE ANGIER takes stock of our changing definition of family. Fabrizio Costantini for...

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