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  1. Health & Medicine

    Company pulls pain drug from market

    The Food and Drug Administration has asked Pfizer to stop selling its prescription pain medication valdecoxib (Bextra).

    By Ben Harder

  2. Obesity may aggravate flu

    At least in mice, obesity can greatly exaggerate the severity of flu by impairing the body's immune response.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Planetary Science

    A Martian haven for life?

    Images taken by two Mars spacecraft suggest that a volcano on the Red Planet erupted long ago at the confluence of two riverbeds, indicating that the region had two of the prequisites for life: heat and water.

    By Ron Cowen

  4. 19544

    Your article on the reaction of nanoparticles of iron with trichloroethane (TCE) contaminating an aquifer, states that the TCE is converted “into ethane.”