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Concerned that too many ALS patients pursue sketchy treatments they discover online, Bedlack and about 40 other directors of ALS clinics set up a Twitter feed in April where patients can ask questions about off-label therapies. A team of doctors then investigates each query and posts their medical opinion online. "Everyone's heart is in the right place, but not everyone has the knowledge to do this the right way," Bedlack says of the Patient 2.0 movement...
...plan probably won't make much difference to the Times's coffers or its readers at first. If you subscribe to the print paper, you won't have to pay to read online. If you don't subscribe but read fewer than a yet-to-be-set number of articles, you won't pay. If you come to an article from a link on Google...
...desired shape and left to grow in a dark warehouse. A week or two later, the finished product is popped out and the material rendered biologically inert. The company's first product, a green alternative to Styrofoam, is taking on the packaging industry. Called Ecocradle, it is set to be shipped around a yet-to-be-disclosed consumer item this spring...
...news that the embassy is set, for the first time in five years, to have a resident ambassador is a sign that the can't-live-with-'em-can't-live-without-'em U.S.-Syrian relationship is about to enter a new phase. The State Department has presented the credentials of Robert Ford, former U.S. deputy ambassador to Iraq, to the Syrian government for approval as ambassador in Damascus, according to the Syrian government. The ambassador's residence in Damascus has been empty ever since the George W. Bush Administration accused the Assad regime of orchestrating the 2005 assassination...
...AQIM had set a Jan. 31 deadline for Mali to release four of the group's imprisoned members in exchange for Camatte's freedom, but that date came and went with no action from the government, prompting French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to make an urgent visit to the country on Tuesday to try to resolve the situation. Spain's El Mundo newspaper reported last month that AQIM wanted $7 million and the release of several other militants in exchange for freeing the three Spanish hostages, but Madrid has ruled out paying a ransom. According to an audiotape released...