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2008

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The Neurobiology of Mass Delusion - Energy Bulletin 11jan05

• Heparin: FDA Withholds List of Chinese Heparin Suppliers From Probe by Congress - Wall Street Journal 10may2008

  • Heparin: Testimony Before Congressional Subcommittee by Marcia Crosse, GAO Director of Health Care: GAO-08-701T 22apr2008

• John McCain Wants to Let Invisible Hand of the Market Sort Out Health Insurance Mess - Wall Street Journal Blog 30apr2008

• FDA Faulted for Approving Studies of Artificial Blood Hemopure Made by Biopure - Washington Post 29apr2008

• Hospitals Demanding Cash Before Treatment: Cash Before Chemo: Hospitals Get Tough - Wall Street Journal 28apr2008

• Counting Birthdays The Short End of the Longer Life - New York Times 27apr2008

• Life Expectancy Is Declining in Some Pockets of the Country - New York Times 22apr2008

• Factories Fading, Hospitals Step In - Wall Street Journal 15apr2008

• FDA Triples Heparin Death Count: 62 Since January 2007- Wall Street Journal 9apr2008

• Nonprofit Hospitals, Once For the Poor, Strike It Rich With Tax Breaks, They Outperform For-Profit Rivals - Wall Street Journal 4apr2008

• American Cancer Society: The World's Wealthiest "Nonprofit" Institution - Cancer Prevention Coalition 28mar2008

• Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance - Donna Jackson Nakazawa / Touchstone / Simon & Schuster 21mar2008

• STD: More Than 25% of Teenage American Girls Has Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) - AP 11mar2008

• LBAM: The Real Facts About Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying: Blatant Misrepresentations - Berkeley Daily Planet 7mar2008

• MSG, the Secret Behind the Savor: (And Sleepless Nights) - New York Times 5mar2008

• China Puts Drug-Safety Onus on Buyers - Wall Street Journal 28feb2008

• TB: New Survey Finds Highest Rates of Drug-Resistant TB to Date - WHO News release 26feb2008

• Viagra Fertility Risk: Men Who Take Viagra 'Put Their Fertility at Risk' - The Observer (UK) 24feb2008

• Middle-Aged Women Gaining Weight, Raising Their Stroke Risk - HealthDay News 20feb2008

• Baxter Heparin: China Plant Played Role In Drug Tied to 4 Deaths - Wall Street Journal 14feb2008

• DNA Pollution May Be Spawning Killer Microbes: Rogue genetic snippets spread antibiotic resistance all over the environment - Discover Magazine 14feb2008

• Lice: Scientists Say Mummies’ Lice Show Pre-Columbian Origins - New York Times 7feb2008

• Has Earth Entered a New Epoch? - Christian Science Monitor 7feb2008
  • Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene? - Zalasiewicz / GSA Today 1feb 2008

• GAO Faults FDA for Scrutiny Of Medical-Device Makers - Wall Street Journal 29jan2008

  • GAO Testimony: Medical Devices: Challenges for FDA in Conducting Manufacturer Inspections: Statement of Marcia Crosse, Director Health Care 29jan2008

• Bush 2008 Health Agenda to Limit Government's Role in Health Care Delivery - AP 20jan2008
• Unpublished Medical Reports Have Found Many Drugs Have Little or No Effect on Patients - Wall Street Journal 16jan2008
• Is Plastic Making Us Fat? Obesity Epidemic - Boston Globe 14jan2008