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Accused of hiding drug dangers again, Big Pharma starts 2008 defending ...
Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments to Prevent Fractures in Men and Women with Low Bone Density or Osteoporosis in the February 8 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. They did find the newer drugs can have serious side effects such as strokes, blood clots in the lungs or bleeding in the uterus (a January 15 Journal of Rheumatology paper finds oral bisphosphonate drugs nearly triple the risk of developing bone necrosis) and that "data are insufficient to determine the relative efficacy or safety" of all the studied drugs. Some will notice the antidepressant article in the New England Journal of Medicine and bone drug article in the Annals of Internal Medicine are unusually short. They lack the obligatory six inches of drug company financial support to the researchers which most journal articles show at the end.
Driving ambition fuelled by a well of petro-dollars
TINY country, massive ambitions. If the World Cup is about knowing your enemy, then the Socceroos need to be careful when they open their campaign in Melbourne tomorrow night. Qatar are out to prove that size doesn't matter. Money, though, counts a lot. Five years ago, Qatar got serious about football. Very serious. The local Olympic committee gave 10 clubs $US10 million ($11.1m) each to set up the first fully professional league. Ageing superstars were recruited. One, Argentine striker Gabriel Batistuta, was paid $US8m for two seasons. A string of fading foreigners followed. The Q-League doesn't draw big crowds, but it continues to draw big names. And that provides the foundation for the second, more significant part of the master plan. To build a competitive national team. Qatar's greatest moment on the football field, coincidentally, came on Australian soil.
01/27 - 02/03
For those of you who love abortion so much, you can move to Oregon or California and abort your heart out. Me? I like living in a state that appreciates the value of human life.In the Top 10 Most Pro-Life, number 6 out of 50 for South Dakota isn't too bad. But we can keep working for #1. Maybe if we get the abortion ban passed this year, we'll get #1 next year! .
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