Pituitary damage an unexpected war wound

Evidence points to pituitary problems in victims of blast-related brain injuries — the defining wounds of the U.S.' recent wars.



Months after Chuck Spires came home from Iraq, he began having dizzy spells and radical mood swings and had lost all interest in sex.



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Researchers find gray wolf-grizzly bear link in Yellowstone

The gray wolf's return to Yellowstone after a 70-year absence has boosted an important food source for the threatened grizzly bear, a study finds.



Reintroduction of the gray wolf to Yellowstone National Park has boosted an important food source for the threatened grizzly bear, researchers have found in an example of how the return of a top predator can have far-reaching ecological effects.



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Healthy pets could lead to healthier pet owners

In a world of dog obesity and cat arthritis, a group called Healthy Pets, Healthy Families is striving to keep pets — and their humans — in good shape.



The veterinarian examined Bella, a spotted cocker spaniel, and quickly concluded she was obese and needed to lose weight.



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Diapers a costly need for 'substantial' number of moms, study finds

Poor families have few resources to turn to for help in buying diapers, experts say. A study of one city finds nearly 30% don't have enough for their children.



There have been days, since her son Ezekiel was born 11 months ago, that Los Angeles mom Beth Capper has gone without food to keep up her supply. One friend was arrested for stealing some.



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3-D printers are beginning to make an impression

3-D printers, which can make plastic objects, have long been used in industry but are creeping into the consumer market.



Diego Porqueras' Deezmaker store in Pasadena is a geeky version of Santa's workshop, brimming with action figures, chess pieces and jewelry.



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Horticulturist is rooting for diseased Muir sequoia

A sequoia that John Muir planted in the 1880s is dying. Kevin Park is trying to keep at least part of it alive through cloning.



MARTINEZ, Calif. — It would be hard to equal John Muir's love for the giant sequoia, a majestic California native that can live 3,000 years and soar 250 feet high.



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Trash talk and the real dirt on a 'toxic tour' of Los Angeles

A 'toxic tour' past rail yards, smokestacks and refineries aims to show officials the consequences of their decisions in low-income, predominantly Latino communities in southeast L.A.



You won't find any homes of the stars on this tour bus as it shuttles rubber-necking sightseers through Los Angeles.



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Internal EPA report highlights disputes over fracking and well water

An EPA staff report suggests methane from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, contaminated wells near Dimock, Pa., but the agency says the water's safe to drink.



WASHINGTON — One year ago, the Environmental Protection Agency finished testing drinking water in Dimock, Pa., after years of complaints by residents who suspected that nearby natural gas production had fouled their wells. The EPA said that for nearly all the 64 homes whose wells it sampled, the water was safe to drink.



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Healthy pets could lead to healthier pet owners

In a world of dog obesity and cat arthritis, a group called Healthy Pets, Healthy Families is striving to keep pets — and their humans — in good shape.



The veterinarian examined Bella, a spotted cocker spaniel, and quickly concluded she was obese and needed to lose weight.



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Virginia Johnson dies at 88; teamed with husband in pioneering sex research

In 1957 the divorced mother of two teamed up with middle-aged gynecologist Williams Masters in a research collaboration that would permanently illuminate the taboo subject of sex.



In the 1950s, couples who wanted better sex lives had few places to turn for help. They could confide in a priest or rabbi and pray for enlightenment or see a psychiatrist and pay for it, only to learn, after months or years, that their mothers were probably to blame.



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Former Michigan State provost nominated to head UC Riverside

UC regents will vote on Kim Wilcox's nomination as UC Riverside chancellor Aug. 8. He was at Michigan State during budget cuts.



The former No. 2 administrator at Michigan State and a recent finalist to lead several other public universities across the country has been nominated to be the next chancellor of UC Riverside, officials announced Thursday.



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Virginia Johnson dies at 88; teamed with husband in pioneering sex research

In 1957 the divorced mother of two teamed up with middle-aged gynecologist Williams Masters in a research collaboration that would permanently illuminate the taboo subject of sex.



In the 1950s, couples who wanted better sex lives had few places to turn for help. They could confide in a priest or rabbi and pray for enlightenment or see a psychiatrist and pay for it, only to learn, after months or years, that their mothers were probably to blame.



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Memories can't always be trusted, neuroscience experiment shows

A false memory regarding a painful shock was implanted in mice. Later, their behavior showed the animals were certain the memory was genuine.



In courtrooms, on therapists' couches and across the kitchen table, we count on the trustworthiness of our memories. But brain scientists are increasingly demonstrating that our recollections don't exactly deserve the faith we put in them. They can be self-servingly Photoshopped, nudged off the mark by suggestion, and corrupted by being dragged out and rehashed.



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Natural gas fire continues to burn after well blowout

A fire from a natural gas well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico may keep burning for several days. Some officials say any environmental damage is likely to be minimal.



HOUSTON — Fire, fueled by a natural gas well blowout about 55 miles off the Louisiana coast, burned into the evening Wednesday, as emergency workers assessed how to stem the out-of-control leak and extinguish the blaze that collapsed part of the rig.



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FDA moves toward restricting menthol in cigarettes

Menthol cigarettes appear to be more addictive and pose a greater health threat than unflavored tobacco, an FDA report says. The agency plans more studies and will 'explore all potential options.'



The Food and Drug Administration has set the stage to restrict — or possibly ban — mentholated cigarettes on the grounds that they are more appealing to new smokers, more addictive to longtime smokers and pose a greater threat to the public's health than does unflavored tobacco.



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Why breast cancer is more likely to kill black women

Black women on Medicare fare worse after breast cancer diagnoses than similar white women, a study finds. Researchers blame preexisting health issues such as diabetes.



A diagnosis of breast cancer is more likely to lead to early death for black women than for white women, a disparity that's mainly the result of having more health problems before cancer develops, new research shows.



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Flavor-flipping neutrinos: key to universe's anti-matter mystery?

Using an underground neutrino detector in Japan, physicists may have found the key to answering a fundamental question: Why does our universe, as we know it, exist at all?



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L.A. River advocates wait for watershed Army Corps study

A nonprofit dedicated to the L.A. River announces plans for a 51-mile greenway. But it's a decision from Washington that everyone is waiting for.



This summer marks a moment of truth for the Los Angeles River.



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Unemployment among recent veterans drops sharply

The 7% figure now matches the rest of the U.S. population, federal statistics show. But the youngest veterans still lag.



Unemployment among recent veterans has fallen sharply and now is the same as for the rest of the U.S. population, hovering just above 7%, new federal statistics show.



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Carson seeks to declare emergency to speed oil site cleanup

Shell Oil denies benzene and petroleum under the Carousel housing tract pose immediate health risks. Residents and city disagree.



Carson city officials are seeking to declare a local emergency in an effort to pressure the state and an oil company to speed the cleanup of a contaminated housing tract where residents have been advised not to eat vegetables or fruit from their yards and to limit contact with the soil.



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Why breast cancer is more likely to kill black women

Black women on Medicare fare worse after breast cancer diagnoses than similar white women, a study finds. Researchers blame preexisting health issues such as diabetes.



A diagnosis of breast



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FDA moves toward restricting menthol in cigarettes

Menthol cigarettes appear to be more addictive and pose a greater health threat than unflavored tobacco, an FDA report says. The agency plans more studies and will 'explore all potential options.'



The Food and Drug Administration has set the stage to restrict — or possibly ban — mentholated cigarettes on the grounds that they are more appealing to new smokers, more addictive to longtime smokers and pose a greater threat to the public's health than does unflavored tobacco.



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Billboards urging gay black men to get HIV-tested prompt controversy

Billboards in South Los Angeles urging gay black men to take health precautions cause a stir in the community over subject matter.



Last year in South Los Angeles, billboards overlooking Crenshaw Boulevard showed two shirtless black men standing and embracing each other on a beach. "Our Love is Worth Protecting .... We Get Tested," read the sign.



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'Corpse flower' attracts thousands to Washington garden

The towering titan arum bloom, which emits a powerful stench resembling rotten flesh, is a rare and crowd-pleasing event



WASHINGTON — It seems a more fitting subject for an Edgar Allan Poe story: a towering maroon blossom that emits the odor of rotting flesh.



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On Navy's San Clemente Island, endangered species stage a comeback

Endangered native species on San Clemente Island clung to life until restoration began two decades ago. The turnaround is dramatic.



SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND — The unique wildlife of San Clemente Island has survived the appetites and hooves of feral livestock, bombardments by Navy vessels and wave after wave of amphibious assault vehicles storming local beaches and grassy plateaus.



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In Hermosa Beach, a sheen of divisiveness over oil's possible return

After more than 80 years, the South Bay town braces for the possible return of oil drilling. An election will decide the matter.



Mike Collins was raised in oil country but dreamed of living at the beach. As a young boy in Bakersfield, he accompanied his father to dusty fields dotted with derricks where he repaired the motors on oil rigs.



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Billboards urging gay black men to get HIV-tested prompt controversy

Billboards in South Los Angeles urging gay black men to take health precautions cause a stir in the community over subject matter.



Last year in South Los Angeles, billboards overlooking Crenshaw Boulevard showed two shirtless black men standing and embracing each other on a beach. "Our Love is Worth Protecting .... We Get Tested," read the sign.



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Work paid off for Watts winners in national engineering contest

Four students from Markham Middle School in Watts poured 500 hours into a prosthetic arm design that took top honors in MESA USA's national contest. "I feel like somebody now," Jacqueline Sanchez says.



Julio Romero is an immigrant boy from El Salvador who spoke no English until he was 7 years old and attends a low-income, low-performing middle school in Watts.



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Eureka! Gold in universe forged by dead, crashing neutron stars

Astronomers panning the heavens for glints of gamma-ray bursts have struck gold. No, really. They found gold -- so much of it, in fact, that they say they could potentially account for the universe's entire reserve of the precious metal prized by Earthlings for jewelry and industrial uses alike.



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'Senior moments' may have real link to Alzheimer's disease

The “senior moments” of unreliable memory may be a scientifically valid way to predict Alzheimer’s disease, after all.



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Hockey still plagued by concussions, despite rule changes

Fighting and body-checking are as integral to ice hockey as skates and pucks, but at what cost? A new study published in the journal PLOS One reveals that despite the National Hockey League’s recent ban on hits to the head, concussions during games have actually increased.



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'iKnife' device analyzes surgical smoke to ID cancers

A new device that analyzes the smoke that arises when an electrosurgical tool slices through or cauterizes flesh may help physicians determine, during a surgery, whether tissues they're removing are cancerous or not.



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Mosquito monitoring can prevent West Nile outbreaks, study says

About 100 cases of West Nile virus infection -- and a dozen deaths -- could have been prevented last year if public health officials in Dallas had kept track of the proportion of infected mosquitoes caught in traps, a new study says.



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Animal studies riddled with bias, report finds

Too much good news in medicine may be bad news for science, according to a new study that suggests animal research is riddled with bias that allows too many treatments to advance to human trials.



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Researchers link 'obesity gene' to hunger hormone

Researchers have further unraveled how a version of a gene linked to obesity risk causes people to gain weight – it makes them more likely to feel hungry after a meal and to prefer high-calorie foods.



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Vast cancer genetics database could aid drug discovery

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., announced that they had assembled the world's largest database of cancer-related genetic variations -- the data will be available for researchers to plumb as they work to understand how genetics and cancer are related -- and what medications work best to fight different cancers.



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Elevated blood pressure increasing among children

The risk of elevated blood pressure among children and teens has risen 27% over a 13-year period, and is probably caused by over-consumption of salt and rising obesity, according to a new study.



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Oyster farm must comply with California coastal laws, judge rules

A court ruling means Drakes Bay Oyster Co. must stop cultivating non-native clams in the Point Reyes National Seashore.



A Marin County Superior Court judge has ruled that an embattled oyster farm in the Point Reyes National Seashore must comply with state laws governing the coast.



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Environmental documents for proposed delta project criticized

Federal agencies reviewing draft for proposal to re-plumb the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta call it 'insufficient' and 'biased.'



Federal agencies reviewing draft environmental documents for the state's proposal to re-plumb the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are criticizing the work as "insufficient," "biased" and "confusing."



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Dinosaurs had teeth to spare -- lots of them

Plant-eating sauropods produced new teeth as often as twice monthly and had as many as nine backup teeth per tooth socket, new research shows.



Dinosaurs almost bankrupted the tooth fairy. New research shows that the lumbering plant-eaters called sauropods produced new teeth as often as twice per month and had up to nine backup teeth in a single tooth socket.



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South Africa butterfly hunters: A rare breed

The leader of the net-toting group is Mark Williams, who has traveled widely, fending off baboons and dodging hippos and snakes, in search of his obsession.



JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Mark Williams was out with his butterfly net in his favorite South African mountain range when a flutter of gray-blue wings sailed by. They were almost as small and nondescript as the other gray-blue butterflies drifting past.



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Fossils suggest T. rex was, indeed, king of the food chain

After more than a century of debate over the Tyannosaurus rex's diet, a discovery in South Dakota is called the first direct evidence that the dinosaur hunted its prey.



The Tyrannosaurus rex of "Jurassic Park" fame chases any prey that moves, then devours it with a bone-crushing gnash of its enormous jaws and serrated teeth. But paleontologists don't necessarily back Steven Spielberg's portrayal of T. rex , with some saying it may have simply scavenged the remains of dead animals it happened to find.



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Brain scans of inmates turn up possible link to risks of reoffending

Researchers studying brain scans of New Mexico inmates find a possible link to risks of future criminal behavior.



ALBUQUERQUE — It began with a casual question that neuroscientist Kent Kiehl posed to a postdoctoral fellow in his laboratory who had been conducting brain scans on New Mexico prison inmates.



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How San Onofre's new steam generators sealed nuclear plant's fate

San Onofre's replacement generators were supposed to extend the nuclear plant's life and save money. The opposite ensued.



In March 2004, an attorney for Southern California Edison sat before state utility regulators to propose what seemed like a great deal.



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Geothermal plants trigger small quakes near San Andreas fault

Geothermal plants on the Salton Sea cause tremors, study finds, but it isn't clear if they could touch off a major quake on the San Andreas fault.



The geothermal power plants at Southern California's Salton Sea don't just produce electricity, they also trigger thousands of temblors not far from one of the West Coast's most dangerous earthquake faults, a new study says.



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Southern California beach fire rings' fate to be decided Friday

Air quality district board will hold a public hearing in Diamond Bar before voting on restrictions proposed for beach fire rings. Hundreds of bonfire boosters are expected to attend.



Like many defenders of the beach bonfire, Chris Epting has questioned the priorities of air quality regulators who want to clamp down on the hundreds of fire rings that blaze nightly on Los Angeles and Orange County beaches, sending pollutants into beachfront neighborhoods.



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L.A. DWP, Mammoth Lakes settle a water dispute with a long history

They strike a deal: The Los Angeles DWP will let Mammoth Lakes keep using water from Mammoth Creek if the community pays for aqueduct improvements.



The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Mammoth Lakes Community Water District announced Thursday that they have reached a compromise settlement over use of the High Sierra ski town's water supply, ending a dispute whose roots reach back a century.



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We're exercising more but still fighting obesity, study shows

Residents of two-thirds of the nation's counties have become more physically active, but obesity rates have climbed, researchers concluded.



Americans are exercising more, but that has not done much to slim their waistlines, underscoring the immense challenge confronting doctors and health advocates fighting the nation's obesity crisis.



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Abortion and preterm births studied

Premature births to women who have a history of abortion are shown to decline as the use of medicine-induced terminations has grown, researchers report.



In a finding likely to reignite debate over proposed new limits on abortion, British researchers have found that years ago, women who terminated a pregnancy increased their risk of giving birth prematurely in subsequent pregnancies, but that with modern procedures the danger has all but vanished.



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Gene therapy using HIV helps children with fatal diseases, study says

Gene therapy researchers say they used a safe version of HIV to prevent metachromatic leukodystrophy and halt Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in children.



Italian researchers have used a defanged version of HIV to replace faulty genes — and eliminate devastating symptoms — in children suffering two rare and fatal genetic diseases.



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