U.S. Flunks on Tobacco Control Report Card

... Lung Association report says feds and most states neglect preventing tobacco-caused illness TUESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- A new report card gives the U.S. government...

Drew Carey Defends Medical Marijuana

...caregivers in states where medical marijuana is legal. Why is the federal government disregarding state laws passed by millions of voters? Because the feds classify marijuana and heroin as equals. The government bogusly claims marijuana has "no accepted medical use" and a "high potential for abuse." Cocai...

Chinese Poultry Smuggled into United States

... chief health officer for Oakland County said, "This is very frustrating to say the least. I think we have got to have better coordination between the feds and the state and local governments." ...

Feds in Biological News

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 3, 2009

... Must-reads from C&EN: Keepers of the gate Advanced imaging and detection technologies help identify terrorist threats at U.S. airports, but the feds concede that screening passengers and their bags is an "enormously challenging detection problem." Since some of the terrorist tools are so tiny, law ...

42nd Mid-year Topical Meeting of the Health Physics Society

... McLean, VA, January 22, 2009 What would be your response to a radiological incident? How will your State and the feds respond? Who would or can take care of us? How do we even know if we are exposed to radiation? These and other questions will be addressed at the 42...

Feds in Biological Technology

State and Feds Race to Stop Taxation of Internet Access

MADISON, WI - Even as the State Assembly Ways and Means Committee heard testimony on Assembly Bill 234 -- a measure that would end state and local sales taxes on Internet connections -- the U.S. House of Representatives was passing a measure that, if it becomes law, would make the state bill irre...

New technique producing small things in large quantities

...try away from the LCD display to the superior field emission display (FED). feds use a large array of carbon nanotubes the most efficient emitters known t...chnique that can mass produce an ordered array of carbon nanotubes and make feds happen promises to remove some of the largest practical barriers to mass-pr...

Academic R&D pays for itself in jobs and economic growth

...is funded by federal programs such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and other research-oriented agencies. But the feds rarely fund research projects unless there is sufficient state and university support. Without a vibrant foundation in academic research and devel...