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Consumer group flags high SPF ratings on sunscreen
79 mins ago
Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider misleading and potentially dangerous, according to a consumer watchdog group.
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Fate of LA pot shops left to voters
8 hours 46 mins ago
Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime.
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What do we eat? New food map will tell us
10 hours 59 mins ago
Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought.
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Portland revisits issue of public fluoridation
11 hours 39 mins ago
While soaking up the rays in what's been an unusually sunny season, Portlanders have broken away from their polite chatter about food, wine and outdoor adventure to fight about whether to fluoridate the water supply.
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Flesh-eating disease victim gets prosthetic hands
2 days ago
A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday after being fitted with prosthetic hands.
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14-year term for Calif. doc promising cancer cure
2 days ago
A Los Angeles doctor was sentenced Friday to 14 years in federal prison for bilking patients out of more than $1 million by promising them that an herbal supplement she hawked could cure late-stage cancer and other diseases.
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Correction: Drunken Driving-Zero Deaths story
2 days ago
In a story May 17 about a National Transportation Safety Board recommendation on a blood alcohol threshold for drivers, The Associated Press incorrectly reported the definition of a drink. The standard definition of a drink is 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine and 1.5 ounces of 80-proof alcohol.
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WHO says single yellow fever shot is enough
2 days ago
The World Health Organization says a yellow fever booster vaccination given 10 years after the initial shot isn't necessary.
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Fleeing Ore. man pleads to be pulled from river
Authorities in Eastern Oregon say a fleeing man tried to use a backstroke to get across the Columbia River but, exhausted, said he couldn't swim and pleaded with officers to retrieve him. ...
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Death sentence in Chinese underground bank case
A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death in the government's latest crackdown on underground lending that is widely used by entrepreneurs.
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