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  1. Health & Medicine

    Meningitis vaccine stops ear infections

    A vaccine for meningitis and pneumonia also prevents many childhood ear infections and the complications that they cause.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Patches take sting out of canker sores

    Small patches that exude licorice extract can speed healing of canker sores.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Earth

    On the move

    A new study suggests how prions, the infectious agents that cause such disorders as chronic wasting disease, behave in soil and landfills.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  4. Earth

    New solutions for unused drugs

    Pharmacists and federal scientists have launched a program to discourage consumers from flushing unused prescription drugs down the toilet.