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Two Reports Say That WHO Failed to Report Conflicts of Interest of Its Vaccine Advisers in Pandemic
The World Health Organization came under fire as two reports in Europe criticized its failure to disclose conflicts of interest among the vaccine advisers it used. These advisers stood to profit from WHO’s decisions. WHO is denying any wrong-doing and has said that these reports are “conspiracy theories.”
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Smoking Already Is Leading Preventable Cause of Death … American Cigarettes Deadlier Than Has Been Known
Report: Domestic cigarettes have high levels of a cancer-causing nitrosamines.
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He’s Optimistic About America’s Future and Has Good Reasons to Boot
Is America still great or a mess? The U.S. columnist for The Economist offers his take as he completes his time as “Lexington,” the byline for any writer taking this assignment. He has some fascinating things to say. You will want to read all about us.
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The 30 Second Life-Saver…Do Use Yours
A life-saving action that takes only seconds.
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Dear Freshman…In This Kit, You Will Find a DNA Test…
UC-Berkeley students will be tested but only for three things—their responses to dairy products, alcohol and folic acid. The university thinks this will be an “interesting” way to learn about this, says the story.
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Stop! FDA Says Consumer Genetic Test Is Illegal Without Agency’s OK
Fortunately, before Walgreen’s started selling consumer genetic kits on Friday, the FDA notified the company, Pathway, that it challenged the legality of selling this test without its approval.
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NEJM Special Report Says Health Care Whistleblowers Endure “Substantial Hardship”
When the editors of The New England Journal of Medicine consider a topic to be one in which the public has a strong interest, they provide a free, full text.
This is one of them. This special report shows that if health care fraud and abuse is to be detected because people who have information come [...]
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FDA Launches New Effort to Get Doctors to Help in Finding “Bad Ads” and Other Misleading Pharmaceutical Information
The FDA is asking doctors—Big Pharma’s prime targets—to report ads or other “closed-door” sales tactics which doctors think are wrong or misleading.
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Eleventy-Two Things Are Wrong Here as Company Jumps into Consumer Genetic Testing
There are about eleventy-two things wrong here.
Please pay close attention.
Empowering patients is the goal of enlightened health care professionals so that skilled clinicians appreciate patients who want to know how to help themselves be healthier. It is true some patients are in the “I don’t want to know” group. The great majority of patients are [...]
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How to Help Mothers the Whole World Over…
Nicholas D. Kristof writes the On the Ground blog for The New York Times.
This commentary offers suggestions for improving the health and safety of mothers world-wide.
The New York Times
Source: New York Times, May 8, 2010
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