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Something in the water
The past decade has seen a steady accumulation of evidence that the residues of pharmaceutical products can be detected in the environment and even in drinking water. But the implications...
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GlaxoSmithKline pays $3bn to settle dispute over rosiglitazone and other drugs
GlaxoSmithKline is to pay a record $3bn (£1.9bn; €2.2bn) to settle longstanding disputes with the US government over marketing of some of its best known drugs.The disputes, some of which...
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A Cambodian Odyssey
“If you die, nothing lost; if you live, nothing gained.” Haing Ngor was a survivor of the Khmer Rouge during their rise to control of Cambodia and the subsequent agrarian...
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India's experience of using recycled pacemakers could benefit other countries
Philanthropic initiatives to harvest cardiac pacemakers from cadavers in France and the United States for supply to patients in India may hold lessons for other developing countries and even the...
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Backing the wrong horse
bmj;343/nov07_2/d7187/FIG1F1fig1Even the brightest medical minds have fallen victim to the scientific phenomenon known as backing the wrong horse. The Dutch physician Jan Ingenhousz (1730-99) devoted... |