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Share the Community-supported agricultulture a growing trend locally
 If you want to buy your food locally, there are options beyond the farmers market. You can deal directly with a local farmer.
You can’t be commitment shy, however, if you want a share of the harvest from a local farm. Doing so requires ...more.
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Tracking Alzheimer's-linked protein in live brains
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists for the first time have peered into people's brains to directly measure the ebb and flow of a substance notorious for its role in Alzheimer's disease. The delicate research was performed not with Alzheimer's patients but with people suf... |
Study: 12 percent of Indian deaths due to alcohol
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Almost 12 percent of the deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related - more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says. The report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Dise... |
Correction: Hot Dogs-Cancer story
CHICAGO (AP) -- In an Aug. 26 story about a new TV ad linking hot dogs with cancer, The Associated Press, relying on figures provided by a nutrition adviser to the American Institute for Cancer Research, erroneously reported average risks for colon cancer and how ea... |
Cells change identity in promising breakthrough
 NEW YORK (AP) -- Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases. The cell identity switch turned ordinary pancreas cel... |
Police: Disabled Palestinian siblings hidden away
 BEIT AWWA, West Bank (AP) -- A Palestinian couple locked their disabled son and daughter away for decades out of fear they would ruin the marriage prospects of a healthy child if discovered, police said Wednesday. The case highlights the shame felt by families who h... |
CDC: Salmonella outbreak appears to be over
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government said Thursday that the salmonella outbreak that sickened at least 1,440 people appears to be over, but its ultimate source may never be known, partly because of shortcomings in the nation's food safety system. The Centers for Diseas... |
In NYC, new HIV infections 3 times national rate
NEW YORK (AP) -- New data show New York City residents are contracting the virus that causes AIDS at three times the national rate. The city health department said Wednesday that almost 4,800 New Yorkers were infected with HIV in 2006. That number represents 72 of e... |
Study outcome won't sway company on eye drug
WASHINGTON (AP) -- What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients $60 per treatment and the other $2,000? In the case of Genentech Inc.,... |
FDA OKs blood test for heart transplant rejection
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government regulators on Wednesday cleared the way for broader use of a blood test that can spare heart transplant patients the ordeal of repeated biopsies to check if their bodies are rejecting the new organ. The Food and Drug Administration said... |
New attack ad on TV, but this one targets hot dogs
 CHICAGO (AP) -- A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy's haunting lament: "I was dumbfounded when the doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer." It's a startling revelation in an ad that vilifies one of America's... |
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