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		<title>How Much More FDA Abuse Can Americans Tolerate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ever wonder why a drug works so well in clinical trials, but then inflicts lethal side effects (and only mediocre efficacy) after FDA approval, one part of the answer is that the clinical trials themselves are often fraudulent.
In a revelation widely reported by the news media, a crooked clinic helped conduct 170 drug [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Mini clip is safer than heart-valve surgery &#8211; The Associated Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Study: Mini clip is safer than heart-valve surgeryThe Associated PressATLANTA — Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as effective as surgery, doctors reported Sunday. &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitals Killing Nearly 50,000 a Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natural Medicine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New study shows sepsis and pneumonia caused by hospital-acquired infections kill 48,000 patients and cost $8.1 billion to treat.  Nearly 20 percent of people who developed sepsis after surgery died as a result of the infection.
Two common conditions caused by hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) killed 48,000 people and ramped up health care costs by $8.1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers Find How Arsenic Exposure May Lead to Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natural Medicine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have found a new oncogenic signaling pathway by which the environmental toxin arsenic may lead to adverse health effects, including bladder cancer. These study results are published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Oncogenesis is the process of malignant transformation leading to the formation of a cancer or tumor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA Announces New Safety Controls for Asthma Meds &#8211; High Risk for Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Safety Controls for Long-Acting Beta Agonists from increased risk of severe worsening of asthma symptoms that can lead to death.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that drugs in the class of long-acting beta agonists (LABAs) should never be used alone in the treatment of asthma in children or adults. Manufacturers will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Finds Flu Vaccines Not Proven Effective for Elderly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The researchers were also unable to draw any conclusions about whether vaccinating healthcare workers helps to prevent influenza symptoms and death in people aged over 60. 
Evidence for the safety and efficacy of influenza vaccines in the over 65s is poor, despite the fact that vaccination has been recommended for the prevention of influenza in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antibiotics Can Fast Track Superbugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natural Medicine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The overuse and miss use of antibiotics cancause multidrug resistance in &#8217;superbugs&#8217;
A new study by Boston University biomedical engineers indicates that treating bacteria with levels of antibiotics insufficient to kill them produces germs that are cross-resistant to a wide range of antibiotics.
The research is published in the journal Molecular Cell, research led by Boston University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA Targets Excess Radiation From Medical Scans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natural Medicine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeks to reduce radiation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from three types of medical imaging procedures: computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine studies, and fluoroscopy. These procedures are the greatest contributors to total radiation exposure within the U.S. population and use much higher radiation doses than other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could Chinese Hebal Medicine Extract  Help Refine Cancer Treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natural Medicine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medical College of Georgia researchers are seeking to refine cancer treatment with an anti-inflammatory plant derivative long used in Chinese medicine.
Celastrol, derived from trees and shrubs called celastracaea, has been used for centuries in China to treat symptoms such as fever, chills, joint pain and inflammation. The MCG researchers think it may also play a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Institutes of Health Puts Low Dose Radiation on the Radar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there is a lot of controversy about diagnostic medical radiation exposure, very little is known about the real impact on health of the cumulative effects of low dose radiation received from medical diagnostics.  
In an effort to get some science on the issue, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center [...]]]></description>
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