Noticias de Hoy

NEW YORK (AP) ? Health officials say synthetic marijuana has been linked to kidney damage in some teens and young adults.

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BOSTON (AP) ? What happens to fish that swim in waters tainted by traces of drugs that people take? When it’s an anti-anxiety drug, they become hyper, anti-social and aggressive, a study found. They even get the munchies.

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(Reuters) – Inventors based in the United States led the world in nanotechnology patent applications and grants in 2012, according to a new study by law firm McDermott Will & Emory. Nanotechnology involves manipulating matter that’s measured at the tiny “nanometer” length level. The diameter of a human hair is between 40,000 and 60,000 nanometers, said Valerie Moore, a patent agent and one of the authors of the study. Nanotechnology patents come into play in everything from aerospace to medicine to energy, the study noted. . . .

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VEVEY, Switzerland (Reuters) – Nestle SA said a growing scandal in Europe about the use of horsemeat in products labeled as beef hurts the whole industry even though the world’s biggest food company is not directly affected. “It has affected us because the whole industry is in question again,” Chief Executive Paul Bulcke told a news conference after Nestle published 2012 results. “This is bad for so many people working hard to give good food. . . .

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NEW YORK (AP) ? About 1 in 9 younger women have used the morning-after pill after sex, according to the first government report to focus on emergency contraception since its approval 15 years ago.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Scientists wondering why some children and not others survived one of China’s worst food safety scandals have uncovered a suspect: germs that live in the gut.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Fighting the problem of fake drugs will require putting medications through a chain of custody like U. S. courts require for evidence in a trial, the Institute of Medicine reported Wednesday.

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LONDON (AP) ? British officials say a mysterious virus related to SARS may have spread between humans, as they confirmed the 11th case worldwide of the new coronavirus in a patient who they say probably caught it from a family member.

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) ? A 3-year-old Cambodian girl has become the sixth person to die from bird flu in the country this year.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Here is the complete text of Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s remarks as prepared for delivery on Tuesday. Rubio gave the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech: Good evening. I’m Marco Rubio. I’m blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate. Let me begin by congratulating President Obama on the start of his second term. Tonight, I have the honor of responding to his State of the Union address on behalf of my fellow Republicans. . . .

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