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Ticked-Off Pet Owners to Benefit From New Labels

4 hours 34 minutes ago |AOL News

Orange County Register / MCT

(March 17) -- With more pets dying from overdoses of pest-prevention products, the federal agency that oversees the pesticides is mandating tighter regulations on labeling and dosage recommendations. ...

Discovery Could Help Humans Regrow Limbs

8 hours 9 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 17) -- Humans could one day regrow limbs, much like flatworms, sponges and newts, simply by flicking the off switch on a single gene. Researchers at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia have p ...

As Red River Rises, US Braces for Spring Floods

13 hours 12 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 17) -- Officials and volunteers in Minnesota and North Dakota built up levees and filled sandbags today against a rapidly rising Red River, even as the federal government predicted potentially ...

CDC: Americans Lack Exercise, Sleep and Weight Control

11 hours 43 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 17) -- More Americans are regular drinkers than gym-goers, according to a federal health habits survey that also offers further proof of the country's burgeoning weight problem. Thirty-one pe ...

Russians to Get Help With Bathroom 'Stage Fright'

1 day 5 hours ago |AOL News

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(March 16) -- If you have overwhelming fear of public bathrooms, you have more than a wee problem. You may have paruresis. "Shy-bladder syndrome," as it is better known, affects an estimated 17 milli ...

Thai Protesters Host a Bloodbath: What's the Risk?

1 day 2 hours ago |AOL News

(March 16) -- Thai protesters doused the front of government offices with gallons of their own blood and said they plan to continue a massive blood drive Wednesday unless the country's parliament is ...

Lazy Britain Losing Battle of the Bulge

1 day 4 hours ago |AOL News

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LONDON (March 16) -- Earlier this month, English dog owner Paul Railton was hauled before a court in the northeast of the country and fined $100 for walking his pooch from the comfort of his car. Acc ...

Army Updates Fitness Training for Softer Recruits

1 day 6 hours ago |AOL News

(March 16) -- It's off the running track and onto the yoga mat for new recruits in the U.S. Army, as the military revamps its fitness program for the first time in three decades. Grunts will no longe ...

Illness Sweeps Cruise Ship Again

1 day 5 hours ago |AOL News

(March 16) -- Modern cruise ships are self-contained wonders equipped with anything that vacationing tourists could want -- and some that they don't. Celebrity Cruises said it is delaying the depart ...

Curing Cancer Means More Work, Less Media Hype

1 day 7 hours ago |AOL News

Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT

(March 16) -- The war against cancer has made significant strides since 1971, when then President Richard Nixon proposed a national strategy to combat the disease. But cancer threatens to afflict gro ...

UN: HIV Infections on the Rise in High-Risk Groups

1 day 12 hours ago |AOL News

(March 16) -- HIV infection rates among high-risk groups like gays, drug users and sex workers are on the rise around the world, The Associated Press reports, with U.N. AIDS agency chief Michel Sidib ...

They Got Rhythm, Study of Babies Finds

1 day 12 hours ago |AOL News

Dr. Tuomas Eerola

(March 16) -- Babies innately respond to rhythm more than speech, according to a new study that found dancing comes naturally to infants. Researchers in Britain and Finland tested the responses of 1 ...