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  1. Health & Medicine

    Device spots sponges left behind

    A device that uses radiofrequency identification can detect tagged sponges left in patients undergoing surgery.

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  2. Chemistry

    Old drug, new use

    By screening a library of more than 2,000 existing drugs, researchers have identified an antihistamine that shows activity against malaria.

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  3. Bullying leaves mark on kids’ psyches

    Being victimized by bullies at school between ages 5 and 7 promotes a unique set of behavioral and emotional problems in children, regardless of any such problems that they had before entering school.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Male circumcision could avert millions of HIV infections

    Mass circumcision of boys and men in sub-Saharan Africa could avert 2.7