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By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. personnel working at an Army facility in Utah appeared to follow correctly all the outlined procedures to inactivate anthrax before they mistakenly shipped off live samples of the deadly bacteria, the Army’s top general said on Thursday. Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno said investigators were now reviewing the procedures themselves to determine why the bacteria was not rendered inactive. “The best
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. personnel working at an Army facility in Utah appeared to follow correctly all the outlined procedures to inactivate anthrax before they mistakenly shipped off live samples of the deadly bacteria, the Army’s top general said on Thursday. Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno said investigators were now reviewing the procedures themselves to determine why the bacteria was not rendered inactive. “The best
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – For pregnant women, carrying a boy brings with it a slight increase in the risk of developing diabetes before giving birth, according to a new study. The findings aren’t something that women need to be concerned about, because the absolute increase in risk is small, said coauthor Dr. Baiju Shah, senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, in a phone
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – For pregnant women, carrying a boy brings with it a slight increase in the risk of developing diabetes before giving birth, according to a new study. The findings aren’t something that women need to be concerned about, because the absolute increase in risk is small, said coauthor Dr. Baiju Shah, senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, in a phone
WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama administration attorneys urged a skeptical federal judge on Thursday to throw out a lawsuit by House Republicans over the president’s health care law.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama administration attorneys urged a skeptical federal judge on Thursday to throw out a lawsuit by House Republicans over the president’s health care law.
By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A human rights tribunal in a Canadian province has agreed to review a complaint filed by nine transgender and intersex people who want gender markers to be removed from their birth certificates, activists said. In a petition filed with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, the Vancouver-based Trans Alliance Society and eight people argued that a doctor should not assign a
By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A human rights tribunal in a Canadian province has agreed to review a complaint filed by nine transgender and intersex people who want gender markers to be removed from their birth certificates, activists said. In a petition filed with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, the Vancouver-based Trans Alliance Society and eight people argued that a doctor should not assign a
Do you find cockroaches, dirty bathrooms, and rotten food disgusting? There’s a scientific reason for why (and it’s a GOOD thing).
Is the juice cleanse worth the flat stomach?