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Despite a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found fecal bacteria in more than half of the water samples taken from metro Atlanta public swimming pools , Cobb officials said the county's pools are safe.

A new genetic test to gauge the aggressiveness of prostate cancer may help tens of thousands of men each year decide whether they need to treat their cancer right away or can safely monitor it.

A report says former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who serves as a bio-warfare adviser to the president and Pentagon, urged the government to stockpile an anti-anthrax drug while serving as a director for the company that supplies it.

One of Wexford's projects is the 242,000-square-foot Wake Forest Biotech Place, an adaptive reuse of two former R.J. Reynolds warehouses.

San Diego Fire-Rescue's bomb squad was called out to a home in La Jolla, after a military rocket was found on the property Saturday afternoon.

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The U.S. Border Patrol and San Diego police arrived on the scene to find three people unloading what appeared to be 10 bales of marijuana off the boat.

For the fifth consecutive year, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has been named to the Globe 100 annual list, the Boston Globe's annual ranking of the 100 top-performing public companies headquartered in Massachusetts.

Aloha Medicinals President John Holliday is all ears, in a manner of speaking, but he's really all mushrooms.

Cobb County Manager David Hankerson is expected to recommend the Board of Commissioners to hire Jessica Gill as the county's new senior services director at Tuesday's regular board meeting.

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AmerisourceBergen Corp. said regulators had cleared an agreement in which Walgreen Co.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the weight-loss therapy Belviq from Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Mr Martin was in Tasmania to present its subsidiary, Tasmanian Alkaloids' grower awards, and meet with farmers, members of the company and government representatives.

Two drugs from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. shrank tumors in as many as half of patients with advanced melanoma, according to early research that may pave the way for cocktails that trigger the immune system to destroy cancer.

Nearly two decades after their mid-'90s debut in US farm fields, GMO seeds are looking less and less promising.

Despite adolescence being a high-risk time for developing major psychiatric and drug dependence disorders, very little is known about the teenage brain.

Johnson & Johnson, the world's biggest maker of health-care products, said it will stop selling metal-on-metal and ceramic-on-metal hip replacements as demand wanes for the devices and U.S. regulators seek new rules.

Parents are reporting more skin and food allergies in their children, a big government survey found.

They currently have a 101.00 price target on the stock. Shares of Merck KGaA traded up 0.13% during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting 119.00. Merck KGaA has a 52 week low of 72.51 and a 52 week high of 125.525. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently 94.50. MRK has been the subject of a number of other recent research reports.