How a Doctor Discovered U.S. Walls Were Poisonous

How a Doctor Discovered U.S. Walls Were Poisonous

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Sometime in the late 1950s, however, Dr. Needleman observed that patients with milder cases of lead poisoning kept returning to the emergency room soon after being treated. And when these children would return for … East European Jewish Immigrants …
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Methadone Deaths Tied to For-Profit Clinics Prompt Bills

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Measures in West Virginia, Minnesota, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Maine, if passed, could increase costs or limit revenue for the nation's largest methadone chains — both of them backed by private equity firms: CRC Health Corp. is owned by Boston-based …
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Embarrassingly obvious undercover cops take to Twitter looking for house shows

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Boston cops have taken to Twitter, posing as punk kids, trying to get bands to tip off the location of their house shows. As Slate's Luke O'Neil points out, though, they're really bad at it, totally tone-deaf. It's created something of an Internet …
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Checking gun buyers for mental illness hinges on states

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Approved in 2009, Indiana's law requires state courts to electronically submit records of anyone found not competent to understand court proceedings, not responsible for a crime by reason of insanity, guilty but mentally ill, or for those ordered into …
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