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WASHINGTON – After two years of work, the Bush administration on Thursday released national emergency response standards for states and local governments that it hopes will stem the confusion and turf battles that followed the Sept. 11 terror attacks (search). The National Response Plan (search) gives local responders the main …

A new study suggests a man’s weight may affect the accuracy of a common test to detect prostate cancer, leading researchers to warn that doctors could be missing the dangerous cancer in obese men. Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio studied 2,779 men without …

Merck & Co. (search) forced one of its researchers to remove her name from a study linking Vioxx (search) to heart attacks, then criticized the findings before ultimately pulling the arthritis drug from the market last fall, two of the scientist’s colleagues said. “Even after funding and agreeing with the …