Remnants of everything in your medicine cabinet can now be found in the water supply. Alan Dove asks, should you be worried?
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Dove, A. News Feature: Drugs down the drain. Nat Med 12, 376–377 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0406-376
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