Word: harmfulness
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...jury in Oregon ruled against a group of abortion opponents on the grounds that an anti-abortion Web site called "The Nuremberg Files," along with two anti-abortion posters, constituted "a true threat by one or more of the defendants to do bodily harm, assault or kill any of the plaintiffs." The defendants were fined $ 107 million...
...stray phthalates, they can be transfused straight into the veins of patients. Animal studies suggest that phthalates can damage the liver, heart, kidneys and testicles, and may cause cancer. "We don't know the toxicity mechanism," says Charlotte Brody, a registered nurse and a coordinator of Health Care Without Harm, a Falls Church, Va., advocacy group. "But the evidence is troubling...
...contained high levels of adipates; some commercial wraps left low but measurable traces too. Toys--at least ones meant for toddlers--can be just as worrisome, since they may spend as much time in babies' mouths as in their hands. Whether any of this causes immediate or even cumulative harm is not known...
...dietary supplement, the FDA requires proof that the substance does not harm a user, but there need be no evidence of the benefits...
Critics of these trials--and there are many--complain that they violate the first principle of medicine: do no harm. Surgery, even sham surgery, is never risk-free. Doeschner says his doctors told him that he might get the short end of the double-blind stick and warned him before asking for his consent that even a fake operation could leave him "a vegetable...