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20011231
• "U.S. Lacks Stockpile of Special Drug:  Anti-Radiation Doses Goal Unmet Since '79." -By Justin Gillis -WashingtonPost 

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• "Aetna losses not seen as physicians' gain:  As the insurer cuts workers in a profit-driven effort, doctors wonder if they'll have to shoulder some financial load for the nation's largest HMO." (20020107) -By Bob Cook -AMedNews  

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• "Defensive Maneuvers:  The science of street fighting known as Krav Maga has been gaining students post-Sept. 11. It focuses on survival techniques." -By Kate Moulene -LAtimes 

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20011230
• "Agent Orange hotspots located [in Vietnam]." -By Helen Sewell -BBC /News 

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20011223
• "Health Care Costs Creep Out of Reach:  Rising prices and job losses drive up the number of Americans without coverage." -By Robert A. Rosenblatt -LAtimes 

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20011221
• "Darwinism Under Attack:  View that 'intelligent force' shaped life attracts students and troubles scientists." -By Beth McMurtrie  -Chronicle/free 

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20011219
• "A Chip ID That's Only Skin-Deep: Firm plans to sell implantable devices that can store a variety of data about you." -By David Streitfeld -LAtimes 

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• "Allergies. Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis." aka "hay fever" - information. -JAMA>Patient Page 

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20011216
• "Air Pollution Harmful to Babies, Fetuses, Studies Say:  Smog is linked to stillbirths, infant deaths and low birth weight." ... "The discovery of carbon monoxide in umbilical cords helps explain how air pollutants reach a fetus and cause damage." -By Gary Polakovic -LAtimes 

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20011214
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Firms accused of marketing bogus anthrax tests." -By Brandon Loomis -AP via  -ChicagoTribune

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20011213
• "Health care giant Aetna to cut 6,000 jobs."  -AP via -LAtimes 

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20011209 (10)
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Doctors warn of Cipro resistance:  Prescriptions for ciprofloxacin have soared since the beginning of the anthrax scare; experts worry that this will exacerbate already-emerging resistance to the drug." -By Victoria Stagg Elliott  -AMedNews 

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20011207
• "Heart Patient Hears 'Miraculous' New Beat:  Philadelphia Man, 5th Recipient of Fully Implantable Artificial Pump, in Recovery." -By Debbie Goldberg -WashingtonPost 

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• "Tobacco alleged to destroy evidence:  Web search reveals internal documents outlining crimes." -By Shankar Vedantam -WashingtonPost via -MSNBC

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 20011204
• "Dog fine with new pacemaker." -By Carolyn S. Wettstone -QCTimes 

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20011203
• "Selecting the Right Toys for Kids With Disabilities:  Keep in mind the children's abilities and interests, and take the time to determine what is appropriate for their developmental age." -By Linda Marsa-LAtimes

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• - ANTHRAX NEWS - "U.S. Postal Service Moves to Sterilize Mail:  In the wake of anthrax contamination of the mail, the postal service is taking new steps to keep the system safe." -PBS /NewsHour /health /Bioterrorism 

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20011201
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Anthrax Found on Letter Near Victim's Home:  Traces of the bacterium--too minute to cause disease, experts say--are found on mail in a Connecticut town near the one where an elderly woman died." -By Megan Garvey-LAtimes 

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20011130
• "Travel blood clot warning issued." Sitting still for long periods of time "dubbed "economy class syndrome"" may increase the risk of of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) a "potentially deadly blood clotting condition." -BBC /News /health 

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20011128
• Afghanistan - "Have Soviet-era bio-weapons infected Afghan refugees?" Nonsubscriber extract -Jane's 

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20011127
• - CLONING NEWS - "Company's Announcement Revives Human Cloning Debate:  Human cloning is once again the subject of intense debate after an announcement by a Massachusetts company that it had cloned an early human embryo. NPR's Joe Palca explains the complicated concept on Morning Edition." -NPR /News  -Health & Science 

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• CLONING NEWS - "U.S. cloning advance shocks world." -CNN 

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20011126
• CLONING NEWS - Advanced Cell Technology Inc. announced they have cloned a human embryo. The company was the first to publish in the scientific literature their research in cloning a human embryo.  Their research was part of a process to advance the science of therapeutic cloning and to harvest embryonic stem cells for what's been referred to as regenerative medicine. -Hermit -HavenWorks.com 

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• CLONING NEWS - "UK set to ban human cloning." -CNN 

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• - CLONING NEWS "Experts debate the latest developments in the controversial practice of cloning human cells." -PBS /NewsHour /health 

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• - CLONING NEWS - "Group Claims to Clone First Human Embryo:  A Massachusetts group says it has cloned the first human embryo -- for purposes of stem-cell research." -By Rachel Gotbaum -Morning Edition-NPR /News 

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• CLONING NEWS - "First Human Embryos Are Cloned in U.S.:  Private Lab Seeks to Mine Stem Cells for Research." -By Rick Weiss-WashingtonPost 

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• CLONING NEWS - "U.S. Scientists Use Cloning to Create Human Embryos: It marks the first official report of such a procedure. The firm says goal is medical treatment." -By Aaron Zitner-LAtimes 

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20011125
• CLONING NEWS - "West: 'I'm just trying to help people who are sick'" Transcript of the CNN interview with the President of Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), Michael West. ACT has published research explaining how they cloned a human embryo. -CNN 

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• CLONING NEWS - -Transcript of the NBC News' 'Meet the Press' interview of Dr. Michael West, President of Advanced Cell Technology Inc. ACT is the company that was the first to publish in the scientific literature their research in cloning a human embryo. -interview by Tim Russert -MSNBC 

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• CLONING NEWS - "The First Human Cloned Embryo: Cloned early-stage human embryos—and human embryos generated only from eggs, in a process called parthenogenesis—now put therapeutic cloning within reach" -By Jose B. Cibelli, Robert P. Lanza and Michael D. West, with Carol Ezzell  -ScientificAmerican.com 

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• CLONING NEWS - "Scientists have finally cloned a human embryo:  The breakthrough promises cures for terrible diseases." -By Joannie Fischer (20011203)  -usnews.com 

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• CLONING NEWS -Discussion: "First Cloned Human Embryo." -Slashdot

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20011124
• CLONING NEWS - "Report: Most of cloned cows healthy:  Twenty-four of 30 cloned cows were alive and apparently normal after one to four years, scientists report."-Reuters via  -CNN 

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20011122
• CLONING NEWS - "Investigation claims clones are completely normal." But there are doubters.  Of the "24 "normal" animals, for example, from almost 500 cloned embryos implanted into 250 cows, only 110 of which became pregnant. Of those, 80 miscarried, leaving the 24 survivors and another six that died at, or soon after, birth." -By Andy Coghlan -NewScientist.com More at: Science (vol 294, p 1893)

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• "Infection 'sniffer' wins approval:  A British-devised "electronic nose" which can sniff out bacteria within minutes has been approved for use in the United States." -BBC /News /health 

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20011121
• "Curry 'may slow Alzheimer's'."  It's possible that the spice "turmeric may play a role in slowing down the progression of the neurodegenerative disease." ... "The crucial chemical is curcumin, a compound found in the spice." -BBC /News /health 

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• "Physical training in your dreams." ... "mental gymnastics" Mentally visuallizing yourself exercising may actually increase your strength. Still, sports psychologist Dr. Peter Clough explains, ""We need to encourage people to take aerobic exercise that raises their heart rate to 70% of its maximum for 20 minutes three times a week - it is that which helps you to live longer."". -BBC /News /health 

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• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Connecticut woman dies of inhalation anthrax."  -CNN

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20011120
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Protocol to Preserve Clues in Anthrax Letter Is Sought." -By Susan Schmidt -WashingtonPost 

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20011118
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Grip of anthrax fear squeezes out other medical research." -By Sue Ellen Christian  -ChicagoTribune 

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20011117
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Fourth Anthrax Letter Discovered by FBI:  Envelope Addressed to Sen. Leahy, Found in Quarantined Mail, Similar 'in Every Respect' to Others." -By Dan Eggen and Susan Schmidt-WashingtonPost 

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20011111
• "Handheld Echocardiography Device Could be Stethoscope of Future." -Duke.edu /News/Med 

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20011109
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Cipro Recipients Developing Side Effects:  Nearly 20% report nonlethal problems in a Florida study. Results reinforce the warning against indiscriminate use of antibiotics, doctors say." -By Charles Ornstein-LAtimes 

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20011108
• "Scientists Race for Vaccines:  Drug Companies Called Key to Bioterror Fight." .. "At least one major drug company, Pharmacia Corp. of Peapack, N.J., has offered to let government scientists roam through the confidential libraries of millions of compounds it has synthesized to look for drugs against bioterror agents." -By Justin Gillis -WashingtonPost 

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20011107
• "HHS Set to Order Smallpox Vaccine for All Americans." -By Ceci Connolly -WashingtonPost 

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20011106
• "Easy on the Joe?" ...  "This isn't the first time that caffeine has been fingered as a culprit in bone loss." ... "The latest findings suggest that genetics are at play." -WashingtonPost 

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• ANTHRAX NEWS - "U.S. Consulate in [Yekaterinburg] Russia Receives Anthrax in Mail." ... "Yekaterinburg is also the site of the Soviet Union's worst inhalation anthrax disaster. About 100 people died in the city, then called Sverdlovsk, after an accident at a germ weapons plant banned at the time by international treaty." -Reuters via -WashingtonPost 

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20011106-12
• "A Pill to Help You Remember:  Suddenly the race is on to develop the thinking person's Viagra." -By David Stipp -Fortune 

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20011105
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Researchers: New anthrax test takes less than an hour." -By Jeremy Manier -ChicagoTribune 

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20011101
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "CDC Update: Summary of Confirmed Cases of Anthrax." -bt.cdc.gov 

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• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Anthrax Probe Is Assailed:  As unexamined mail piles up, lawmakers are demanding answers from the FBI and the Postal Service." -By Josh Meyer and Eric Lichtblau -LAtimes

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20011031
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "New Jersey Governor Says State Has New Anthrax Case." -Reuters via -excite / News 

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20011030
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Anthrax: Charting the US cases." -BBC /News 

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20011029
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "The anthrax threat:  America's outbreak of anthrax contamination continues to widen, sowing alarm and confusion. Three people have now died from pulmonary anthrax since October 5th. This has renewed fears about biological weapons, which may not threaten mass destruction, but are proving very effective at spreading terror."  -Economist 

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20011028
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Cipro Loses Favor to Less Pricey Drug: D.C. health officials, in a shift, are prescribing doxycycline, another antibiotic that is cheaper and as effective against anthrax." -By Charles Ornstein and Janet Hook -LAtimes 

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20011027
• "Search for back pain cause." -BBC /News 

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20011026
• ANTHRAX NEWS "New Layers of Worry In a Complex Mystery" -By Rick Weiss -WashingtonPost 

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20011024
• ANTHRAX NEWS- "If misused, drug for anthrax could carry bigger risks." -By Jeremy Manier -ChicagoTribune

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• ANTHRAX NEWS- "U.S. forces Bayer to lower price of Cipro" -By Keith Bradsher and Edmund L. Andrews -ChicagoTribune 

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• ANTHRAX NEWS- "Chemicals show promise fighting the anthrax toxin" ... "The chemicals, which appear to be harmless to people, could be ready for human trials in 12 to 24 months, the researchers said." -By Ronald Kotulak  -ChicagoTribune 

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20011023
• ANTHRAX NEWS- "Anthrax Cited in 2 D.C. Postal Deaths:  2 Others at Sorting Facility Hospitalized With Disease" -By Steve Twomey and Avram Goldstein -WashingtonPost 

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20011022
• "U.S. Testing Diluted Smallpox Vaccine." -By Scott R. Burnell  -UPI via MedlinePlus.gov 

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• ANTHRAX NEWS- "Why so many miscues on anthrax?  The US response is complicated by manpower shortages and rivalries among agencies." -By Abraham McLaughlin -CSMonitor

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20011018
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Clarifying The Facts And Risks Of Anthrax:  Terms Used Loosely As Reports Multiply." -By Rick Weiss -WashingtonPost 

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• "CDC Warns Docs of Bioterror Outbreak"  -AP via MedlinePlus.gov

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• ANTHRAX NEWS- "FDA Public Health Advisory: Update on Use of Doxycycline for Anthrax Exposure." ... "Doxycycline is approved for the treatment of anthrax in all its forms." -FDA.gov 

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• ANTHRAX NEWS- "Bayer increases Cipro production." Cipro is the antibiotic being used to treat anthrax.  -By Julie Appleby -USATODAY 

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20011015
• ANTHRAX NEWS- "The Fear and the Facts:  Resources for Journalists Covering -- and Fearing -- Anthrax." -by Ellen Sung  -Poynter.org 

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20011012
• ANTHRAX NEWS - "Analysing the US anthrax attacks." -By John Eldridge -Jane's 

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20011008
• "Surfing instructors: Teaching how to hang ten over medicine on the Internet.  One doctor has set up a college course to teach consumers about how to evaluate medical Web sites." As one of the students explained, ""look at the source of the information, who wrote the article, [and] who paid for it to be written....."" -By Tyler Chin -AMNews

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20010927
• "Why exercise cheers you up." ... "the chemical phenylethylamine could play a part.... a naturally produced chemical that has been linked to the regulation of physical energy, mood and attention."-BBC /News /health 

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20010905
• -STEM CELL NEWS- "Stem cells from Israel are sent to Harvard lab" -By Dan Vergano -USATODAY 

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20010904
• Opinion "Stephen Hawking: Humans will fall behind AI:  Renowned British scientist Stephen Hawking has claimed that humans should be genetically engineered if they are to compete with the phenomenal growth of artificial intelligence." -By Wendy McAuliffe  -ZDNet>News

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20010903
• "Genetic factors may be derailing healthful diets: Low-fat regime backfires in some." ... "While many believe a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet is the most healthful way to eat, it probably isn't for some because of genetic factors." -By Jon Van  -ChicagoTribune 

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• -STEM CELL NEWS- "Researchers Create Human Blood Cells" using embryonic stem cells. -By Randolph E. Schmid -ChicagoTribune

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• "Job gene tests raise alarm: Many predict discrimination by employers" -By T. Shawn Taylor -ChicagoTribune

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Stem-Cell News New Section added 20010809

Cloning News, information, resources, and Links New Section added 20010807

20010520
• "New Hope For Cancer:  This little pill targets cancer cells with uncanny precision. Is it the breakthrough we've been waiting for?" -By Michael D. Lemonick and Alice Park -TIME 

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20010406
• "FTC charges Hearst with monopolizing drug databases" -Computerworld

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20010331
Rick Berman - Corporate - Media - Marketing - Food - Safety - Animals - Workers - Consumers - Health - Science - Politics - Law - Enforcement
• "Berman & Co.: "Nonprofit" Hustlers for the Food & Booze Biz." ... "Restaurant-industry lobbyist Rick Berman says there are two things that set his firm, Berman & Co., apart from others in the trade. The first is that "we always have a knife in our teeth." The other is that "we don't chase the smaller issues. . . . Our work is restricted to and focused on issues that affect shareholder value. These big issues include labor costs as they relate to health insurance and the minimum wage, achieving operator sales increases, and tax rates as they are affected in particular by payroll and excise taxes."" ... "Based in Washington, DC, Berman speaks for hotels, beer distributors, taverns, and restaurant chains such as Cracker Barrel, Hooters, International House of Pancakes, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, Red Lobster, Steak & Ale, TGI Friday's, Uno Restaurants, and Wendy's. His strategy for helping these chains maximize "shareholder value" is aimed at two goals: minimizing wages for restaurant employees, while driving up sales of his client's high-markup products--in particular, booze, soda pop, fatty foods, and cigarettes." ... ""Other groups drive consumer behavior on meat, alcohol, fat, sugar, tobacco and caffeine with outrageous quotes, exaggeration, junk science and even violent acts," Berman said in a 1999 interview with the Chain Leader, a trade publication for restaurant chains. "Our offensive strategy is to shoot the messenger," Berman went on. "Given the activists' plans to alarm beyond all reason, we've got to attack their credibility as spokepersons."" ... "By way of disclaimer, we should note that our attention was first drawn to Berman & Co. when our 1997 book, Mad Cow USA, was attacked recently by one of Berman's front groups--the "Guest Choice Network," whose stated mission is to expose what it calls "the Nanny Culture -- the growing fraternity of food cops, health care enforcers, anti-meat activists, and meddling bureaucrats who 'know what's best for you.'"" ... "According to the Guest Choice Network, Mad Cow USA "set new standards for food scare tactics." Guest Choice has even produced a report, titled "Mad Cow: A New American Scare Campaign," which insinuates that we are the masterminds behind recent headline stories about mad cow disease that have appeared in places as far apart as Agence Press France, ABC World News Tonight, and the Wall Street Journal. The report includes sinister-looking charts and arrows alleging hidden conspiratorial ties between us and groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the Center for Food Safety, Consumers Union, Fenton Communications, the Organic Consumers Association, Dr. Tom Pringle (who until recently managed a website about mad cow disease, at www.mad-cow.org), and CJD Voice (an internet-based discussion and support group for people who have lost family members to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a mad cow-like disease in humans)." ... "Guest Choice claims that all of these groups and individuals are part of a massive "junk-science smear campaign" to "ignite a U.S. panic" so that anti-meat "food police" can "frighten us all into eating only what bears their imprimatur."" ... "It is a curious honor, of course, to be accused of "junk science" by a flack for junk food. Given some of the garbage that Berman's clients feed to an unsuspecting public, it's hardly surprising that he would see a need to "attack our credibility as spokespersons."" ... "But what about Berman & Co. itself? How much credibility should anyone give a restaurant industry spokesperson who brags of having "a knife in his teeth"? The sad fact is that the news media has given him plenty. " -By Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber -PRWatch.org

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20010326
• "Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report" Chemical companies hide the toxicity of their products.  -PBS
• The evidence
• "We are conducting a vast toxicologic experiment, and we are using our children as the experimental animals." -Dr. Philip Landrigan, Chairman, Preventive Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
• From the Transcript of the show.

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20010324
• "Lobbyists Go Full Tilt in Bid to Ease Patient Privacy Rules: Effort appears to be one of the largest ever undertaken to block implementation of a federal health care regulation." By Alissa J. Rubin -LAtimes

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20010320
• "Bush To Repeal Work Safety Rules"- AP via Netscape

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20010319 (26)
• "Patient privacy rights extend beyond electronic records" Basic Medical Privacy is Still Years Away- AMedNews 

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20010109
• "Teens stake a claim on their DNA - and the  lessons stick" - By Lauren Gravitz -CSMonitor

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20000710
• "Ethics of owning parts of our genetic 'blueprint':  As research accelerates, some scientists question the wisdom of patenting pieces of the human genome." -By Peter N. Spotts -CSMonitor 

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19990621
• CLONING NEWS - "Dolly's Legacy:  Nuclear transfer--used to clone Dolly and now owned by Geron [Corporation]--may help scientists develop more potent stem-cell therapies." -ScientificAmerican.com 

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19960225
• "Exercises may prevent carpal tunnel syndrome." Includes pictures of exercises that may help people avoid carpal tunnel syndrome. -AAOS.org

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