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Drug Companies pay the FDA for Drug Review - Is This a Conflict of Interest?


Today, drug companies pay a fee to the FDA for review of new drugs. This has been the case since 1992 with the passage of the Prescription Drug User   read more
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Human Guinea Pigs - Offshoring of Drug Trials in Developing Nations


If you've ever wondered why we so rarely hear of drug trials going awry in the United States, it is because we "offshore" the drug trials to developi   read more

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America is Importing Tons of Food from Other Countries without FDA Inspection


People are upset. Their little Fidos and Fluffies are being poisoned by a chemical additive in pet food imported from China. And now it's been found   read more
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Bush's War on Women Is a War on Science


The veil over the Bush administration's war on women's reproductive health was pulled back recently by the president's own former surgeon general.   read more

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Stevens: Smoking pot akin to drinking during prohibition


In his dissent on a recent free-speech case, Justice John Paul Stevens wades into the war-on-drugs debate, comparing modern-day pot smokers with "otherwise law-abiding patrons of bootleggers and speakeasies," during the prohibition era.Stevens, who t   read more

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Images of the Future


Perhaps the saddest dead futures are the ones whose end may mean the end of humanity. I suppose one could argue that the death of an environmentally conscious future is in that category.   read more

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'Performance enhancing' drugs?


We interrupt this episode of As The World Burns and turn our attention to America?s other national pastime.   read more

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Madam's favorite senator not making friends in return to Capitol


Sen. David Vitter doesn't seem troubled by his recent exposure as a onetime client of the so-called DC Madam. His brash return to the Capitol is apparently rankling lawmakers of both parties. After lecturing GOP senators about "rebranding" the party   read more

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Leahy: Bush 'must go back to the rule of law'


Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), appearing on Face The Nation today, slammed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for not "telling the truth" during testimony before Congressional committees investigating the firing of nine US attorneys, adding that Presid   read more

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Senators worry about Bush appointee's commitment to racial diversity


A pair of Democratic senators are criticizing President George W. Bush's pick to head the US Agency for International Development over what they see as her failure to promote racial and ethnic diversity in the US Foreign Service. Senators Robert Mene   read more

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