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Pharmalot (Free subscription) | yesterday
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At issue is the risk of heart attacks that may be associated with its Ziagen med. Regulators recently began reviewing safety data after publication of a large observational study of more than 33,300 HIV patients, who are being followed to evaluate short- and long-term adverse effects of AIDS drugs. However, Glaxo was officially told of the possible risk in May 2005, three years before it issued a...
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RHRealityCheck.org blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Ferraro on women coming out for Obama, Pope on contraception, Lack of condom use in Britain.
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Obsolete (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
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By her own admission, Nadine Dorries MP is a liar . Since November last year she has presented an known urban myth as an emotional case for why the current abortion limit of 24 weeks should be cut to 20 weeks, and when this was pointed out to her, she responded by making arguments that only exposed her ignorance. Dorries has a long record of never apologising and never admitting that she has made mistakes:...
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Pigdogfucker (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
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No way in hell do I believe this. It's just about possible that only 33% of workers are hungover on any given day...
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Hyscience (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
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Statistics show that an incredible 65.2 percent of the U.S. population is considered to be "overweight" or "obese." Fat cells have an important physiological role in maintaining triglyceride and free fatty acid levels - as well as determining insulin resistance, and lie behind how you gain and lose weight. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, in a study published in Nature, report they...
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spEak You're bRanes (Free subscription) | 30/04/2008
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Thanks to Lucie for this one from a BBC article about the A.S.A . Well after reading this I have concluded that there’s not much point in having ASA. As far as I’m concerned all of these complaints should have seen the adverts banned, as should all adverts of female hygiene products. How standards have slipped with the passage of time. Bring back Mary Whitehouse, I say. Anne Porter, Belfast There...
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Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
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Our long national nightmare is almost over: today, after seven hard weeks of bowlin’ and shootin’ and drinkin', the people of Pennsylvania will finally get to vote in our primary. It's been a critical time in this electoral cycle, a time during which American news media were able to dig hard and deep into the issues that underlie the moral and constitutional crisis to which the Bush Administration...
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Skin Flicks (Free subscription) | 20/04/2008
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What is it about political leaders and secret mental illnesses? I don't mean, why do they keep them secret. That's fairly obvious from a self-preservation point of view. But how come so many political leaders have them, and why aren't we the people informed? People have made a big deal about John McCain's health in the US Presidential race. His ticker may not be the best, or some such. Frankly, I'd...
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UK Commentators (Free subscription) | 20/04/2008
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The Daily Telegraph has learned that Mr Ibrahim's father, Nassif, is a consultant pathologist at the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. He qualified as a doctor in Egypt. His wife, Victoria, is from West Yorkshire. The couple have another son, Peter, 25, and live in an £800,000 detached home with a walled garden on a private road in the smart suburb of Frenchay. Mr Ibrahim said last night: "I can't talk...
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Freeborn John (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
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There's no point debating what Art is or isn't, at least not unless you're a stoned undergraduate and it is past midnight. But whatever artists do should stay within the law and within the bounds of decency. The dog in the above picture was starved to death, tied in an art gallery as an exhibit. The title of the "work" was spelt out on the gallery wall in dry dog food, beyond the dog's reach. A container...
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Raedwald (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
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News from America that drinking and smoking apparently increase the risk of Alzheimers is published today . That's good news, then; the previous scare stories have all suggested we drinkers and smokers will drop dead long before we're old enough to get Alzheimer's. But what of the research published in Scientific American in 2003 that suggested that nicotine actually delays the onset of Alzheimer's?...
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Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
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A Times poll published today will show that around 50% of the public support the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos to tackle diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. But there is less support for letting lesbian mothers adopt without the "need for a father".
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Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
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The usefulness of some cancer meds is being exaggerated because drugmakers are stopping trials the moment they find a benefit, according to a study that will be published in Annals of Oncology, The Telegraph reports. Researchers have discovered a sharp increase in the number of studies that are terminated early and argue that drugmakers are halting trials whenever benefits are discovered - and use...
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Effect Measure (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
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If you pay attention to the latest news about bird flu I will not be telling you anything new that there is a detailed description in The Lancet (a British medical journal) of a case in China of probable person to person transmission of bird flu. You can get details from the incomparable reporting of Helen Branswell ( Canadian Press ), James Macintyre ( The Independent ), Deborah MacKenzie ( New Scientist...
