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The Freedom to Be Fat?
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Someday we’ll look back on this week’s White House movie-popcorn brouhaha as madness....
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Leave The FDA Alone!
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The Obama administration’s rejection of its own scientists’ findings on Plan B could create big...
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Beyond OJ Scare
Paulo Whitaker, Reuters / Landov
The saga of tainted juice reveals holes in FDA screening. What else is slipping past?...
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FDA Panel Rejects Breast Cancer Drug
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Can You Really Trust At-Home Tests?
Ancient Egyptians relied on a pregnancy test that was roughly 70 percent accurate: if a woman urinated on grain seeds and they grew—thanks to high levels of... MORE
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Why the FDA May Reverse Course on Avastin
If the summer of 2009 was the season of “death panels,” as the debate over health-care reform exploded, this is the season of “17.5k dead women a year.... MORE
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Prescription Nation
The U.S.... MORE
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Some Pharmaceutical Clinical Trial Results Are Buried, Study Shows
Investors interested in pharma stocks and patients eager to know if an experimental drug works have one thing in common: they devour stories reporting the... MORE
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DNA Dilemma: The Full Interview With the FDA on DTC Genetic Tests
The full transcript of Mary Carmichael's interview with FDA officials on the potential regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests. MORE
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Why Antidepressants Are No Better Than Placebos
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Achoo: Homeland Security Officials Take On the Flu
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Waging the Swine-Flu PR War
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OTC FAQs: The Real-Life Realities Behind the FDA's New Recommendations
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