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An audio briefing for journalists undertaken at 2pm today (September 19, 2008) hosted by the Australian Science Media Centre. The briefing features Dr Richard Beasley, director of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, explaining the findings published in Lancet of a major study looking at the association between paracetamol use in infancy and childhood and the risk of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema in children aged 6 – 7 years.
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Venus may well once have had water like Earth does, but because of the scorching surface temperature of 482 degrees C (900 degrees F). Any sign of it has long ago evaporated.
