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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden charged Saturday that Jim Crow is “sneaking back in” as he emphasized voting rights at his first presidential campaign stop in South Carolina, where black voters play a key role in the South’s first presidential primary.In criticizing Republican efforts to adopt more stringent voting rules, including identification requirements and curtailing early voting hours, Biden recalled the racial segregation laws of the past.“You’ve got Jim Crow sneaking back in,” he said, referring to the era before the civil rights movement. “You know what happens when you have an equal right to vote?...

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a new system for tracking what drugs are on the market after a study found that more than 9,000 products were missing from its master listing. Companies would have to give electronic updates every six months on where their prescription and nonprescription medications are made and whether they are on the market. Currently, the FDA has 15 workers who manually enter paper registrations that companies file when they start or stop selling a drug. --SNIP-- Aneurysm-Causing Condition Often Missed A genetic disorder first described just over a year ago is more widespread than...

Cocaine users face a newly discovered and possibly fatal risk: coronary aneurysms, a ballooning of the walls of coronary arteries. The condition increases the chance of suffering a heart attack, even years after users stop the drug, researchers in Minnesota are reporting. The risk of developing an aneurysm was four times as high among cocaine users in their mid-40's as among nonusers in the same age group, according to the study, reported yesterday in the journal Circulation, which is published by the American Heart Association. Aneurysms occurred in 30.4 percent of cocaine users in the study compared with 7.6 percent...