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Monthly Archives: March 2003
Activists Want Ban on DTP Shot
Campaigners in Great Britain have called for a ban on the diptheria, tetanus and pertusis or whipping cough vaccine. The vaccine is usually given to infants in the second month of life. Although there is no evidence linking the DTP … Continue reading
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Faked Environmental Lab Results a Concern
The Environmental Protection Agency is concerned about what it perceives as a rise in the number of individuals and laboratories that it is finding are producing fraudulent results for legally required environmental tests. David Uhlmann, chief of the Justice Department’s … Continue reading
Study Finds No Evidence for an Acrylamide/Cancer Connection
A study conducted by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found little evidence to back up fears that acrylamide might be increasing the risk of cancer in human beings. Acrylamide is a … Continue reading
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Deaths from vCJD Continue Decline in Great Britain
The United Kingdom’s National CJD Surveillance Unit reported in The Lancet that the number of people who died from vCJD continued to fall in 2002. Last year 17 people in Great Britain died from the disease, compared to 20 in … Continue reading
The Wealth/Breast Cancer Link
The San Francisco Chronicle recently ran an excellent article looking at the surprising results of studies that have tried to find why breast cancer rates in places like Marin County are so much higher than the national average. The answer … Continue reading
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