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Five VA patients blinded by Avastin: report
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Five patients being treated for eye disease were blinded after being injected with Roche Holding AG’s Avastin at the Los Angeles Veterans Affairs medical center, according to the New York Times. VA officials did not respond to requests for comment. The latest cases of blindness follow…
New Mars samples ‘unlike any seen before’
A new site being explored by the Mars rover Opportunity has yielded soil samples unlike any examined before on the red planet and that appear more favorable for life, scientists said. Opportunity, the indefatigable robot that has been exploring Mars for seven and a half years, arrived three weeks ago…
Gulf of Mexico storm threatens oil rigs
Oil companies began evacuating workers from rigs in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday ahead of what US forecasters said could be a powerful and dangerous storm. “Right now we’re giving it a 70 percent chance of developing into a tropical cyclone sometime in the next 48 hours,” said Dennis…
100-plus former Obama workers to protest tar sands pipeline at White House
Former staffers and volunteers who have worked under President Barack Obama will “lead more than 100 people in civil disobedience at the White House” Thursday in an the ongoing protest against the Keystone XL pipeline, according to a release from the group. Courtney Height, a former youth voting director for…
Katia strengthens to hurricane over Atlantic
MIAMI (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Katia strengthened into a hurricane over the Atlantic on Wednesday, while another mass of thunderstorms that could become a named storm this week triggered evacuations of some oil workers from the Gulf of Mexico. Katia had sustained winds of 75 miles per hour and was…
Oil firms start U.S. Gulf evacuations due to weather
HOUSTON (Reuters) – BP Plc on Wednesday became the first major oil producer to say it was evacuating some workers from Gulf of Mexico oil and gas platforms because of a tropical disturbance that could become a named storm this week. Later on Wednesday, Anadarko Petroleum Corp joined BP saying…
Study of coral may lead to sunburn pill
A study of underwater coral reefs by researchers of King’s College London may lead to the development of a pill to prevent sunburn. The research team hope within the next two years to test a compound based on one which shields coral against harmful ultraviolet rays. “We already knew that…
Corn falls prey to bugs it was supposed to thwart
A voracious pest which has long plagued corn farmers is devouring a widely-used variety that was genetically modified to thwart the rootworms, raising fears of a new superbug. So far, there is no evidence that a significant number of rootworms have developed a resistance to the corn’s protective toxin. However,…
Study links medieval Black Death to present plague
A much less virulent version of the Black Death plague that killed a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century is still present today, according to a study published Tuesday. DNA testing on the skeletons of plague victims unearthed in a medieval London mass grave reveals part of the…
Top NASA climate scientist arrested at White House
One of the nation’s foremost experts on climate change was arrested outside the White House on Monday morning after he joined a protest against a planned Canadian tar sands pipeline. Dr. James Hansen (pictured), who runs NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested along with 139 other protesters taking…
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