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In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs — like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse — are the ones that most often elude environmental regulation when they become waste. Federal narcotics regulators impose strict rules meant to keep controlled pharmaceuticals out of the wrong hands. Yet …

An English woman may have lost an eye and part of her face to rare, flesh-eating bacteria, but believes she is lucky to be alive, BBC reported Wednesday. Tracy Marjoram, 42, of Norfolk, England, was gardening in June 2005 when she felt an itching sensation in the corner of her …

ATLANTA – The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported Sunday, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic. The country had roughly 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006 — a …