Drugs and Pharmaceuticals

updated Jul 31, 2011 by Maria Mergel

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Breaking stories

An entrepreneur bankrolls a genetically engineered salmon.

Pet food recall that won't end?

Book it, we're toast: the fate of the species.

Baby food 'contaminated' with antibiotics and other drugs used to treat animals.

Office of Management and Budget should release new food safety rules.

Environmental standards should build not erode.

How a bunch of scrappy Marines could help vanquish breast cancer.

The book Big Tobacco doesn't want you to read.

Maryland set to ban arsenic-containing drug in chicken feed.

Scientific studies

BPA diminishes in vitro success.

Study first to link geothermal gas to asthma.

Leather trash turns to medical treasure.

Safer anti-coagulants: kicking out the pig.

Insecticide in infant's first stool linked to underdeveloped motor skills later.

'Inactive' phthalates widespread in medications.

Early-life exposures to solvent linked to drug abuse.

Shake it up: A greener method for upset tummy medicine.

Making plastic: Use plants, not petroleum.

Smoking moms' offspring more likely to be treated for mental problems.

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