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- December 15, 2010
Keeping your dog on your lap while driving is a serious distraction; not having your dog strapped in means that during a crash, the animal could become a flying missile, going right through the windshield. ABC News, 6/6/2012
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READ MOREYou don't have to be a star athlete to be recruited and courted on campus these days. Today, outstanding computer science majors are being enticed by tech companies to come on board even before they graduate. Companies are wooing these top college students with offers of equity, high salaries and free food. The Wall Street
READ MOREMarita Nash, environmental services director at Hunterdon Medical Center, and her colleague Kathy Roye-Horn, Hunterdon's infection-prevention director, are on the front lines of one of the most critical battles in health care- keeping virulent hospital infections at bay. Their New Jersey-based hospital cut its rates of deadly infections and has now launched a national program
READ MOREAt a conference of more than 30,000 cancer specialists, scientists are reporting new tactics to spur the immune system to attack a broad range of cancers, new drugs that attack the disease while sparing healthy cells, and new ways to tell which patients will benefit from which drugs. ABC News, 6/4/2012
READ MOREParents are questioning the long term effects of Miralax, an often used laxative containing the chemical polyethylene glycol. This drug for constipation was never intended for those under 17 or for long term use — long term studies on side effects have not even been done on children — yet pediatricians continue to prescribe it.
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