For a family with its name on a wing of one of the world's most famous museums and a school at a prestigious university, members of the Sackler clan have done a remarkable job of vanishing from public life. The family owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, which filed for bankruptcy last week as part of [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The number and rate of abortions across the United States have plunged to their lowest levels since the procedure became legal nationwide in 1973, according to new figures released Wednesday. The report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, counted 862,000 abortions in the U.S. in 2017. [...]
Movement by proteins is essential to their proper function. Scientists, however, have great difficulty tracking protein movement slower than a nanosecond. Ohio State University research published recently in Science Advances provides scientists with a method to complete measurements at speeds of hundreds of nanoseconds to microseconds. “We know very little about what proteins do on [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A short walk from police headquarters in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, a cluster of bustling shops are openly selling packaging and hardware that can be used to produce counterfeit marijuana vapes that have infected California's cannabis market. Bootleggers eager to profit off unsuspecting consumers are mimicking popular, legal vape [...]
The first sexual experience for 1 in 16 women was forced or coerced intercourse in their early teens, encounters that for some may have had lasting health repercussions, a study suggests. The experiences amount to rape, the authors say, although they relied on a national survey that didn't use the word in asking women about [...]
Union and Licking county residents join other central Ohioans for eligibility in an innovative state program addressing co-occurring child abuse and substance abuse. The counties, in addition to another 12 throughout the Buckeye State, were added to the other counties eligible for participation in the Ohio START program, which brings together children services, juvenile courts [...]
For months, the judge overseeing national litigation over the opioids crisis urged all sides to reach a settlement that could end thousands of lawsuits filed by state and local governments. But the chaotic developments last week in the case against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma underscore how difficult that goal is. By Thursday, half of the [...]
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Efforts to ban flavored e-cigarettes and reduce their appeal to youngsters have sputtered under industry pressure in over a half-dozen states this year even as one state, Michigan, moves ahead with its own restrictions and President Donald Trump promises federal ones. In many cases, the fight by the industry and its [...]
Results of a new Ohio State University study may aid in treatment of flu patients who develop life-threatening heart problems, despite having an otherwise healthy heart. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found a link between a genetic mutation, flu and heart irregularities in lab mice. Mutation of the gene responsible [...]
Horses from certain counties within seven states will not be allowed to participate in the upcoming American Quarter Horse Congress. The Ohio Department of Agriculture announced Monday that horses from Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming are restricted from the world's largest single-breed horse show because of an outbreak of vesicular stomatitis, [...]