Health & Science

  • Shuttered NM plant resumes making peanut butter

    The eastern New Mexico peanut butter plant shuttered eight months ago after a salmonella outbreak is back in production, and company officials say their coveted natural and organic butters could be back on store shelves within a month.

  • Hobby Lobby tests birth-control coverage mandate

    In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.

  • Study: No higher cancer rate at Conn. Pratt plants

    An 11-year study of the incidence of brain cancer at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney in the state ended Thursday with university researchers saying they found no statistically significant elevations in the rate of cancer among workers.

  • NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission

    Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.

  • Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical

    Reading, writing, arithmetic - and PE?

  • US companies challenging contraception mandate

    Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is challenging the part of the federal health care law that requires for-profit companies to offer employees health coverage that includes products the business owners find morally objectionable, such as certain types of contraception.

  • Teen birth rates decline in most US states

    The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

  • 2013 hurricane names: From Andrea to Wendy

    Weather forecasters are predicting another busy Atlantic hurricane season. The storms will get their names from an alphabetical list of 21 names:

  • WHO: Scientific red tape mars efforts vs. virus

    International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday.

  • Study: Amphibians disappearing at alarming rate

    A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good.

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