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...counterfeit since this term is often associated with intellectual-property issues and could lead some to believe that the initiative is aimed at protecting pharmaceutical companies' profits, not safeguarding public health. Franquet says it's important for public opinion to be mobilized against fake medicines, and he believes that given the sometimes tragic consequences, this should be easy to accomplish. "This is one of the rare areas where the public is on our side," he says...
Presented annually since 1956 by the trustees of the Richards Free Library of Newport, N.H., the award is given to a person of literary stature whose body of work has exhibited a meaningful connection to New England...
...take-no-prisoners turn has come as a surprise to some in the press, considering the largely favorable coverage that candidate Obama received last fall and given the President's vows to lower the rhetorical temperature in Washington and not pay attention to cable hyperbole. Instead, the White House blog now issues regular denunciations of the Administration's critics, including a recent post that announced "Fox lies" and suggested that the cable network was unpatriotic for criticizing Obama's 2016 Olympics effort. (See pictures of Barack Obama's nation of hope...
...October issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers recruited 115 cocaine-dependent people who were also addicted to heroin and enrolled in a methadone-treatment program, which made it easier for investigators to keep people in the study for a full 12 weeks. Half of the participants were given five injections of the vaccine over the course of the study, while the other half received a placebo...
...Given the positive response, committee members said after the meeting that they are considering expanding the program to other schools in the district for the next school year...