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  1. Health & Medicine

    Drug-Resistant Flu Detected: Japanese strains appear transmissible

    For the first time, researchers report drug resistance in type B influenza virus and say the drug-resistant strain may jump from person to person.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Not-So-Artful Dodgers: Countering drug tests with niacin proves dangerous

    Attempts to cleanse illicit drugs from one's body by taking large doses of niacin can cause life-threatening reactions.

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  3. Physics

    Formula for Panic: Crowd-motion findings may prevent stampedes

    The physics of pedestrian flows could help prevent stampedes such as the one that killed hundreds during a pilgrimage to Mecca in 2006.

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  4. Mushroom Boom: Hobby records show climate-change boost

    Mushrooms in England are starting to pop up earlier and staying around later than they used to, according to 55 years of amateur naturalists' records.