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This was supposed to be a history-making week for NASA, with the first all-female spacewalk originally planned to take place on Friday. Unfortunately, a last-second swap has led to one of the expected participants, Anne McClain, being replaced with f...
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Agrochemical corporation found responsible for Roundup weedkiller’s health risks in ‘bellwether’ federal trial The second phase of the trial focused on claims that Monsanto quietly worked to control research and sway regulators about Roundup’s safe...
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A U.S. jury on Wednesday awarded $81 million to a man who claimed his use of Bayer AG's glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup caused his cancer, in the latest legal setback for the company facing thousands of similar lawsuits. The jury in San Francis...
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Actress Marcia Cross opened up about what it was like having anal cancer.
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There have been a lot of worrisome reports recently about the health effects of sunscreens with chemical ingredients such as oxybenzone and avobenzone—the same substances shown to protect skin fr...
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The jury delivered its unanimous verdict in Middlesex County Superior Court in New Brunswick, just miles from J&J's headquarters, in the case of plaintiff Ricardo Rimondi. J&J, which faces some 13,000 talc-related lawsuits nationwide, denies that it...
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Pichai planned a meeting Wednesday in Washington with General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to a person familiar with the matter. Trump said in a subsequent tweet that he and Pichai also discussed “political fa...
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The Trump administration has quietly pursued a wider deal on sharing U.S. nuclear power technology with Saudi Arabia, which aims to build at least two nuclear power plants. Several countries including the United States, South Korea and Russia are in...
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Agrochemical corporation found responsible for Roundup weedkiller’s health risks in ‘bellwether’ federal trialThe second phase of the trial focused on claims that Monsanto quietly worked to control research and sway regulators about Roundup’s safety....
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In a briefing with reporters on Wednesday, Boeing said the highly anticipated changes would most importantly prompt the aircraft to utilize two sensors instead of just one to engage the MCAS, or Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, design...
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Novartis has priced the treatment at $88,000 annually, head of pharmaceuticals Paul Hudson told Reuters, a level exceeding some other MS drugs and one that may draw scrutiny from payers. Mayzent was approved for adults with relapsing forms of the di...
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Laws that only require women to be told they have dense breasts, without any further information, don't seem to make a difference in extra screenings or cancers detected, the study team reports in American Journal of Public Health. Roughly half of U...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — All U.S. women getting mammograms would receive information about breast density, which can sometimes make cancer harder to spot, under a government proposal released Wednesday.
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The U.S. charged dozens of parents this month after Rick Singer, a college admissions coach accused of leading the scam, cooperated with federal agents on a sting that led to arrests of wealthy and powerful figures and tainted some of the nation’s mo...