Zachary Reyna: Brain-Eating Amoeba Strikes Again

Zachary Reyna: Brain-Eating Amoeba Strikes Again

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that there have been 31 infections from 2003 to 2012; making your risk of contracting this brain-eating amoeba very low. However, in recent weeks, two children have contacted this potentially …
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Geek of the Week: Dr. Jim Olson's 'Project Violet' is crowdfunding potential

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The initiative he's referring to is Project Violet, a new effort that gives the public — i.e., all of us — the opportunity to “adopt” drug candidates for $ 100 each to help fund the development of new cancer treatments derived from natural organisms …
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Local teens getting high with "e-joints"

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Steven Hill is the Director of the Vince Smith Center a residential substance abuse treatment program for teens. "For the kids I'm working with, a lot of them have done it," Hill said. "You don't have to smoke and you don't have the smell which, a lot …
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After pain pill crackdown, heroin use jumps

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Heroin use is on the rise in Florida and across the nation, an unfortunate side effect of the crackdown on pill mills. "I believe what's … The numbers show a dramatic increase for new admissions at the Tampa drug treatment center. In 2010, 37 people …
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