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  1. Health & Medicine

    50 years ago, scientists warned of marijuana’s effects on the unborn

    In 1969, scientists warned about prenatal marijuana exposure. Researchers today are still untangling drug’s effect on fetuses.

    By Carolyn Wilke
  2. Health & Medicine

    Rockland’s measles outbreak is over, but U.S. elimination status is still at risk

    Officials in Rockland County in New York announced that their measles outbreak, which began October 1 of last year, is finally finished.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  3. Life

    Losing genes may have helped whales’ ancestors adapt to life under the sea

    Jettisoning genes tied to saliva and the lungs, among others, could have smoothed ancient cetaceans’ land-to-water transition 50 million years ago.