Kidney Donors Just Fine, Even Years Later (Chicago, IL) -- Good news for kidney donors. A new study says healthy Americans who donate a kidney aren't at any higher risk of dying than anyone else. A team headed by a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore began tracking more than 80-thousand living kidney donors in 1994 ...Read More
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White House Urges Gas Companies To List Drilling Chemicals (Washington, DC) -- Natural gas companies should come clean about what toxic chemicals they use in their drilling. That's the warning from a top environmental aide to President Obama. Joseph Aldy said people living near shale gas reserves are fretting about their water getting contaminated by drilling chemicals ...Read More
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Stimulus Dollars Fund Cocaine-Addicted Monkeys (Raleigh, NC) -- Turns out stimulus dollars can benefit monkey business too. A Raleigh "News & Observer" report shows more than 71-thousand dollars in federal stimulus cash is keeping monkeys at a North Carolina research lab in a steady supply of cocaine ...Read More
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Study Shows Lower Cocaine, Meth Use In U.S. Workforce (Undated) -- The latest Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index shows a sharp decline in both cocaine and methamphetamine use among U.S. workers. Quest director Barry Sample says this is the first time the company evaluated both hair and urine samples from employees and job applicants to compile the study ...Read & Hear More
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Nicotine Takes Time To Accumulate In Brain (Undated) -- A new study shows that nicotine builds up in the brain over the course of smoking a whole cigarette. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center put to rest the idea that each puff on a cigarette causes a spike of nicotine to the brain ...Read More
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