http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A community workgroup led by UW research scientist Caleb Banta-Green, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, unveiled today the King County 2008 annual drug trends report. Heroin and cocaine led the list of county drug treatment admissions, according to the study. Prescription-type opiates caused the most deaths in 2008, with individuals 50 years and older accounting for 39 percent of deaths. http://www.physorg.com/news167495574.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:10:05 EST news167495574 (AP) -- Health officials are investigating a never-before-seen form of the flu that combines pig, bird and human viruses and which has infected seven people in California and Texas. All the victims recovered, but the cases are a growing medical mystery because it's unclear how they caught the virus. http://www.physorg.com/news159544017.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:47:22 EST news159544017 (AP) -- Ron Kurth, who grew up in Gary and worked in the steel mills, raised his family in the region near the outskirts of Chicago. He always wondered about the smoke and smog that overcast the Lake Michigan shoreline. http://www.physorg.com/news157290393.html Space & Earth Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:47:06 EST news157290393 (PhysOrg.com) -- In this day and age, people engage in their right to vote from all over the world. But this Nov. 4, few ballots will have traveled as far as those cast by two NASA astronauts. http://www.physorg.com/news144350218.html Space & Earth Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:16:58 EST news144350218 Deportable immigrants who previously have been expelled from the United States are more likely to be rearrested on suspicion of committing a crime after they are released from jail than other deportable immigrants without the prior history of expulsion, according to a new RAND Corporation study. http://www.physorg.com/news140096796.html Other Sciences Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:46:36 EST news140096796