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• Cost to Treat a Depression Case Falls: Bigger Share of Sufferers Are Now Receiving Help, So Total Expenditures Rise -  Wall Street Journal 31dec03
• Mad Cow: Scientific Data Offer No Proof Of Beef Safety: Stanley Prusiner - Wall Street Journal 29dec03
• Some Doctors Letting Patients Skip Co-payments -  NY Times 27dec03
• Mad Cow Disease Suspected in Washington State - Seattle Times, AP, Reuters, NY Times 23dec03
• Report Faults NY City on Health Care for Mentally Ill -  NY Times 23dec03
• Fallon, NV: In Tiny Town, 11 Kids Get Cancer—Why?  -  AP 14dec03
• Asthma: Early Exposure to Chemicals May Boost Risk of Asthma - LA Times 12dec03
• Most Medicine Ineffective: Vast Majority of Drugs Work in 30% or 50% of People Prescribed For - The Guardian (UK) 9dec2003
• Dental Board Sued Over Fillings by Consumers for Dental Choice -  LA Times 9dec03
• HRT: Question Doctors Before You Pop More Pills -  Newsday 2dec03
• When Fish Fluoresce, Can Teenagers Be Far Behind? -  NY Times 2dec03
• A Significant Minority [need old-fashioned animal insulins to survive] -  GeneWatch Dec03

• Can Non-Stick Make You Sick?  -  ABC News 14nov03

• Seriously Hazardous Chemicals in Nearly Every Person Alive - The Scotsman (Scotland) 14nov03

• Tooth Fairy Project: Using Baby Teeth as a Geiger Counter:  - NY Times 11nov03

• Hormonal Imbalance: The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women -  The Weekend Australian 10nov03

• 3 Autoimmune Diseases Share a Genetic Defect - NY Times 10nov03

• Insurers Knew of Asbestos: Thousands of former workers are sick, angry—and suing - Sacramento Bee 9nov03

• Toxins Found in Body of E.U. Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom -  Reuters 7nov03

  • Margot Wallstrom Shows Tainted Blood Sample to Urge Adoption of New Safety Rules for Chemicals -  AP 6nov03

• Breast Implants: Thomas V. Whalen, Surgeon Urges Silicone Implant Ban -  Star-Ledger (New Jersey) 6nov03

• Bush Ban on Late Abortions Blocked by San Francisco Judge - AP 6nov03

• Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003 Signed by Bush - AP 5nov03

  • S.3 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 as Signed by President Bush and Became Public Law No: 108-105 5nov03

• Philip Morris Sold DDT-Coated Tobacco - The Advertiser (Australia) 04nov03

• Health Care for Homeless Women: Unmet Needs and Barriers to Care - J. H. Lewis et al. / Journal of General Internal Medicine 1nov03

• Prediabetes: Diagnosis: Wider Net for Diabetic Disorder -  NY Times 28oct03

• Health Insurance Cuts: As Firms Cut Benefits, Americans See Broken Health System -  Christian Science Monitor 28oct03

• Asbestos: EPA Warning on Asbestos is Under Attack -  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 25oct03

• Estrogen Therapies Have a Way of Bouncing Back from Bad News: The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women - Lexington Herald Leader 16oct03

• Breast Implants: FDA Panel Backs Breast Implants Made of Silicone -  NY Times 16oct03

• Something is Killing America's Urban Poor: Enough to Make You Sick?  -  NY Times 12oct03

• As Flame Retardant Builds Up In Humans, a Ban Is Debated -  Wall Street Journal 8oct03

• U.S. Life Expectancy, Health Spending Rise: Live Longer but Less Healthy  -  Washington Post 5oct03

  • Health, United States, 2003 With Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans (Highlights)  - National Center for Health Statistics 4oct03

• Japan's Falling Fertility Rate: Fertility Experts Urge Health Insurance Help -  The Japan Times 5oct03

• Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)  'The New Thalidomide' -  The Independent (UK) 4oct03

• Antibiotic Use Linked to Asthma, Allergies -  Globe and Mail (Toronto) 30sep03

• 3G Mobile Signals Cause Nausea, Headache: Survey - Reuters Health 30sep03

• Census Finds Many More Lack Health Insurance -  Washington Post 30sep03

• Numbers of Americans With and Without Health Insurance Rise - Census Bureau Press Release 30sep03

• Origins of Dementia - Sandra Steingraber, PhD / Rachel's Environment & Health News 29sep03

• Too Many Patients Never Reap The Benefits of Great Research -  Wall Street Journal 26sep03

• Preventing Mitochondria from Turning Ugly may Postpone Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s Diseases -  Sandia Lab News 19sep03

• Breast Implants: US Federal Court: Government Can Seek Money From Implant Settlement - AP 16sep03

• Children Suffer Most from the Effects of Ozone Depletion - Press Release / WHO 16sep03

• Sperm Made from Stem Cells: Development in Mice Raises Issues for Human Reproduction -  Washington Post 16sep03
• Toxic Chemicals Abundant in Homes -  Cape Cod Times 15sep03
• U.S. Opposes EU Effort to Test Chemicals for Health Hazards -  Wall Street Journal 9sep03
• Survey Says Health Insurance Premiums Rose in Past Year  - Washington Post 9sep03
• 40,000 Could Lose Medicare: U.S. Insurers Say Payments Not Up with Medical Costs - SF Chronicle 9sep03
• Researchers Find Handling Pesticides May Reduce Chances of Conception - Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter (Wisconsin) 4sep03
• IBM Computer Workers: Sick and Suspicious -  NY Times 4sep03

• Coke is Official Sponsor of National PTA . . . and has a seat on its board ! Coke Moves With Caution to Remain in Schools - NY Times 3sep03

• Medical Marijuana: Oakland Hearing to Decide Fate of Pot-Prescribing Doc -  Berkeley Daily Planet 2sep03

• Russian Doctors Remove Parasite Child from Nikita - Pravda (Russia) 1sep03

• Christine Todd Whitman: Former US Environmental Chief Under Fire Over Weak 9-11 Health Warnings - Agence France-Presse 31aug03

• MCS and scented products: Julianna Martin, 25, Syracuse, N.Y.  Interview with person with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) - NY Times 24aug03

• Physical Activity Levels Among Children Aged 9--13 Years --- United States, 2002 - MMWR 22aug03

• Gulf War Veterans Sue Corporations Over Contamination - AP 19aug03
• DEHP and Pregnancy Duration: In Utero Exposure to Di-(2-ethyhexyl)-Phthalate and Human Pregnancy Duration - Environmental Health Perspectives 18aug03

• Dr. Lucien Abenhaïm: French Health Official Quits Over Heat Wave Deaths -  NY Times 18aug03

• Prevalence of Physical Activity, Including Lifestyle Activities Among Adults --- United States, 2000--2001 - MMWR 15aug03

• Bush Accused of Power Abuse Over Science -  Nature 14aug03

• Kenya: A Generation Orphaned by AIDS - Washington Post 13aug03

• Copper May Play a Role in Alzheimer's  - Reuters 12aug03
• Truth is Elusive in Soda Battle as Industry-Funded 'Experts' Testify - Editorial / SF Chronicle 10aug03

• White House Sway Is Seen in E.P.A. Response to 9/11  - NY Times 9aug03

• Bush Misuses Science, Report Says: Democrats Say Data Are Distorted to Boost Conservative Policies -  Washington Post 8aug02

  • Politics and the Bush Administration - Rep. Henry A Waxman / US House of Rep. Comm. on Gov. Reform 7aug03

• Smoke and Dust at World Trade Center Is Linked to Smaller Babies  - NY Times 6aug03
• Even Low Lead Levels Pose Perils for Children -  NY Times 5aug03
• New Surgery to Control Behavior -  LA Times 4aug03
• Why Hospitals Overcharge the Uninsured  - AlterNet 23jul03
• US Soldier Who Died of Iraq 'Mystery' Illness is Buried  - Lake Sun Leader ( Missouri ) 21jul03
• Having XXL Fun in the Mexico Sun  - Washington Post 21jul03
• Modern Medicine Generates Swelling Population of Nursing Home Patients  - NY Times 19jul03
• Masturbating May Protect Against Prostate Cancer  - New Scientist 16jul03
• Playing God: Eggs from Foetuses, Artificial Wombs, Dead Men's Sperm - The Guardian (UK)
• 7 More Cases of Mystery Illness: US Troops in Baghdad - Lake Sun Leader (Missouri) 12jul03
• Birth Defects Higher in Wheat Areas - AP 11jul03
• Third of U.S. Egg Donors Unwilling to Donate Again  - Reuters Health 2jul03
• U.S. Is Urged by Panel to Tell Women About Dioxins  - NY Times 2jul03
           Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds in the Food Supply: Strategies to Decrease Exposure - National Academies 1jul03
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• Dioxin: No Evidence of Dioxin Cancer Threshold - Environmental Health Perspectives Jul03
• SARS Virus Genetically Engineered? - Dr. Mae-Wan Ho / ISIS 26jun03
• U.S. Predicts Cancer Deaths at Proposed Plutonium Plant  - NY Times 26jun03
• Births: Preliminary Data for 2002 - CDC/ National Vital Statistics Report v.51, n.11, 25jun03
• Study Finds New Risks in Hormone Therapy  - NY Times 25jun03
• Africa: GMOs not answer to poverty/hunger in Africa – New study  - Third World Network - Africa 20jun03
  • Study: Genetically Modified Crops and Sustainable Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Assessment of Current Evidence - Third World Network - Africa 20jun03
• Intelligence: Good Genes Do Count, but Intelligence May Come From Complex Interactions  - Wall Street Journal 20jun03
• Depression: More Americans Seeking Help  - NY Times 18jun03
• Aneuploidy: Preventing Accidents of Growth -  The Guardian (UK) 18jun03
• Lead Levels Tied to Aggressive Behavior  - Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ) 17jun03
• Sarin vapor: Long-term, low-level exposure of guinea pigs and marmosets to sarin vapor in air: lowest observable effect level - Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 15jun03
• Gene Therapy: Cancer Risk Exceeds Outlook in Gene Therapy - NY Times 13jun03
• Mother's Nurturing of Baby Can Effect It's Ability to Handle Stress as an Adult  - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 9jun03
• Agent Orange: Supreme Court Deadlocks on Agent Orange Case - AP 9jun03
• Puberty: Breast Cancer in Some Women Is Tied to Early Start of Puberty - AP 5jun03
• Mad in America: Bad Science and Bad Medicine  - Street Spirit (San Francisco) Jun03
• Cell Phone/EMF: Nerve Cell Damage in Mammalian Brain after Exposure to Microwaves from GSM Mobile Phones Leif G Salford et al. / Environmental Health Perspectives 1jun2003
• Swimming Pool Use Linked to Asthma Rise - The Australian (AFP) 29may03
• Worriers More Prone to Cancer  - New Scientist 28may03
• HRT: Hormone Therapy Doubled Alzheimer's Disease/Dementia -  NY Times 28may03
• Full-Term Fetus Knows Mom's Voice - Reuters Health 27may03
• Is Organic Shampoo Chemistry or Botany? - NY Times 18may03
• 400,000 Human Embryos Frozen in U.S.  - Washington Post 8may03
• Cellphones: FTC Bars 2 Companies From Making False Claims About Radiation Shields - AP 7may03
• Stem Cells Can Become 'Normal Sperm' - New Scientist 7may03
• Autism, Vaccine Link Considered  - UPI 6may03
• The Futures of Food Michael Pollan / NY Times Magazine 4may03
• Traffic Pollution Damages Men's Sperm  - (with abstract) New Scientist 30apr03
• CDC Pegs Human Exposures to Chemicals  - Environmental Science & Technology 1may03
• Consumption Patterns Contribute to Mortality -  Vital Signs 2003 / May03
• SARS: Worries About SARS Crimp Toy Industry's Buying Season  - Wall Street Journal 30apr03
• SARS Halted in Vietnam  - Pravda 28apr03
• SARS: 2,753 Cases Reported in China - People's Daily (Beijing) 26apr03

• The FDA's New Math - Editorial / Wall Street Journal 25apr03

• US Sugar Industry Threatens to Scupper World Health Organization (WHO)  - The Guardian (UK) 21apr03

• SARS: China Admits Much Higher Number of SARS Cases:  1,807 confirmed cases / 79 deaths - NY Times 20apr03

• Asthma in 25% of Children in Central Harlem  - NY Times 19apr03

• SARS: Bio-Terrorism & SARS - Dr. Mae-Wan Ho / The Institute of Science in Society 16apr03

• Intersex Surgery: The effect of clitoral surgery on sexual outcome in individuals who have intersex conditions with ambiguous genitalia - The Lancet 12apr03
• HIPAA Privacy Rule and Public Health Guidance  - MMWR 11apr03
• Update on Adverse Events Following Civilian Smallpox Vaccination --- United States, 2003 - MMWR 11apr03
• Nearly 7,500 cases of Lymphatic Cancer in Morocco - Arabic News.com 4apr03
• Global cancer rates could increase by 50% to 15 million by 2020: World Cancer Report  - Press Release / World Health Organization (WHO) 3apr03
• Autistic Spectrum Disorders: Changes In The California Caseload: An Update: 1999 Through 2002 - CA Dept. of Developmental Services (DDS) Apr03
• Are Toxins Fattening?  - Taste For Life Apr03
• Children: Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure of Urban and Suburban Preschool Children with Organic and Conventional Diets - EHP Mar03
• Cancer: Global Cancer Rates Could Increase 50% to 15 Million by 2020 -  World Health Organization (WHO) 3apr04
• Blood Mercury Levels in US Children and Women of Childbearing Age, 1999-2000 (Abstract) - JAMA 2apr03
• Sex Steroid Signaling During Aging -  Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy / Biology of Aging  1apr03
• Smallpox Vaccination: Second Death Follows  - NY Times 28mar03
• SARS: WHO Links China Outbreak That Killed 34 to Epidemic - AP 26mar03

• Chlorination by-Products in Drinking Water and Menstrual Cycle Function  - Environmental Health Perspectives 25mar03

• SARS: 487 SARS Cases in 12 Countries - Update 9 / WHO 25mar03
• SARS: Preliminary Clinical Description of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - MMWR 21mar03
• SARS: Mysterious Respiratory Illness Spread to More Countries - NY Times 16mar03
• Soda Pop Lobby Beats Citizen Groups on House Junkfood Bill: Soda Jerks Stop Vote on HB1866 - CCCS 10mar03
• Middlesex and the Limitations of Myth  - Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) News Spring03
• Fast Food and TV Triple the Risk of Obesity - AP 8mar03
• FDA Proposes Labeling and Manufacturing Standards For All Dietary Supplements  - Press Release 7mar03
• US Abstains in United Nations War on Tobacco  - Boston Globe 5mar03
• Most Preventable Drug Reactions from Doctors' Errors - w/ JAMAabstract -  AP 4mar03
• Why is Chemical Brain Injury Ignored? Pondering Causes and Risks - Editorial / Archives of Environmental Health 1mar03
• Smallpox Vaccine Adverse Events Among Civilians --- United States, February 18--24, 2003 - MMWR 28feb03
• UC Berkeley Public Health Stacks Now Classified - Leuren Moret 22feb03
• Fatal Degenerative Neurologic Illnesses in Men Who Participated in Wild Game Feasts --- Wisconsin, 2002 - MMWR  21feb03
• Public Health and Aging: Trends in Aging --- United States and Worldwide - CDC / MMWR 14feb03
• Senior Population to Double by 2030 - AP 13feb03
• Perfume: What the Nose Knows  - MSNBC 12feb03
• Hypothermia-Related Deaths — Philadelphia, 2001, and United States, 1999 CDC / MMWR 7feb03
• Our Bodies, Our Landfills? You are what you ate, breathed, drank and more  - MSNBC 5feb03
• Thimerosal: Immunity to Pork - Editorial / Scientific American Feb03
• Blue Collar Doctor Tracks Ground Zero Workers  - NY Times 31jan03
• Lower Extremity Amputation Episodes Among Persons with Diabetes — New Mexico, 2000 - MMWR  31jan03
• In-vitro Fertilisation and Retinoblastoma - The Lancet v.361, n.9354 25jan03
• Roe v Wade: Beyond Choice On the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Overcoming Abortion’s Stigma  - In These Times 22jan03
• Academic Research Tainted by Commercial Funding: Medical Tests Skewed, Study Finds  - LA Times 22jan03
• Private Labs Fake Environmental Tests  - AP 22jan03
• Millennium Cohort: US Acts to Stem a Gulf War Legacy  - Washington Post 21jan03
• Cheney Pulls the Plug on Medicine for World's Poorest Nations at Behest of Pharmaceutical Giants (and Media Forgets to Report It) -  Orion Magazine 20jan03

• Bush Proposes Reforms To Medical Malpractice Laws: "for the sake of affordable and sensible health care in America." -  AP 16jan03

• Sperm Count Variability: A Fertile Subject for Study  - Newsday 14jan03

• Why Do Men Have Nipples?  - Scientific American Online 13jan03

• Years of Life Lost Due to Obesity - JAMA  8jan03

• US Flu Deaths Up Sharply since 1970s: Aging Population  - AP 7jan03

• Obesity Cuts Life Span for Young Adults, Too  - (w/ JAMA Abstract)  / AP 7jan03