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Pediatricians Fact-Check Bachmann's Bashing of HPV Vaccine

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Scott Hensley - Sep. 13 (Fact Check) - The American Academy of Pediatrics said there is no validity to statements that a vaccine against cervical cancer is dangerous and can lead to mental retardation. Now the nation's pediatricians have waded deep and early into the race for the presidency. In an unusual instance of political fact-checking of a candidate's statements by physicians themselves, the American Academy of Pediatrics has a tough prescription for Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann: Get your facts straight on the HPV vaccine. In case you missed it, she sparred with Texas Gov. Rick Perry Monday night over his executive order that would have mandated vaccination of state schoolgirls against human papillomavirus, a cause of cervical cancer.

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'Clearing the Smoke': The Benefits, Limits of Medical Marijuana | PBS NewsHour | PBS Video

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Mass Psychosis in the US

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jul. 13 (Special Report) - Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux.

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Mexican troops replace police in half a state that borders Texas

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Mariano Castillo - Jun. 25 (News) - Mexican troops fanned out across the border state of Tamaulipas this weekend, taking over security operations in half the state's cities and towns.

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Critic of ATF gun-trafficking program raised no objection when briefed last year

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jerry Markon, Sari Horwitz - Jun. 22 (News Report) - A chief Republican critic of a controversial U.S. anti-gun-trafficking operation was briefed on ATF’s “Fast and Furious” program last year and did not express any opposition, sources familiar with the classified briefing said Tuesday.

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La Familia drug cartel defeated, says Mexico

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:27:54 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Sara Miller Llana - Jun. 22 (News) - La Familia leader, Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, has been arrested and Mexican authorities contend that the group's reign in the state of Michoacán has come to an end.

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Report describes gun agents' 'state of panic'

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Kim Murphy - Jun. 15 (News Report) - Federal gun agents, concerned about weapons sales to Mexican drug suspects, begged to make arrests but were rebuffed, according to a congressional report on a controversial investigation.

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Zocor: FDA discourages high doses

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Chris Woolston - Jun. 14 (News Report) - When the FDA announced that the popular cholesterol drug simvastatin, brand name Zocor, would need a new label warning, it simply reinforced something that many doctors already knew: The highest “recommended” dose of 80 milligrams a day is so dangerous that it probably shouldn’t be recommended at all.

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The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The New York Review of Books - Jun. 10 (News Analysis) - Prior to treatment, patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric disorders do not suffer from any known “chemical imbalance.” However, once a person is put on a psychiatric medication, which, in one manner or another, throws a

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Global war on drugs has 'failed'

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 02 (News) - The global war on drugs has "failed" and legalisation would be a better option, according to a new report by group of politicians and former world leaders.

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Crowds to gather in Colo. to celebrate 420, push for marijuana legalization

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - By Edecio Martinez - Apr. 20 (News) - The festivities in Denver include a daylong rally in Civic Center Park. Tens of thousands are expected to gather in the downtown park at the annual concert, smoke-off and legalization rally.

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How antidepressants boost growth of new brain cells

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Jessica Hamzelou - Apr. 17 (News Report) - The first clear evidence of how antidepressant drugs help to boost brain cell formation could lead to better treatments for depression. The hippocampus is one of just two brain regions known to grow new neurons throughout life - a process called neurogenesis. This process is disrupted in people with depression, although it is not known whether this is a cause or symptom of the condition. It is clear, however, that one of the ways that antidepressants work is by boosting neurogenesis in the hippocampus. Christoph Anacker and his colleagues at King's College London have now worked out how they do so. Previous research has shown a link between some antidepressants and stress hormones called glucocorticoids. So Anacker's team decided to test whether the antidepressant sertraline acts on the glucocorticoid receptors of brain cells. They grew human hippocampal progenitor cells in a dish and added sertraline. Ten days later, the cultures showed a 25 per cent greater than expected increase in the number of new neurons.

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Ontario court strikes down Canada’s pot laws

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Globe and Mail - By Adrian Morrow - Apr. 13 (News) - An Ontario court has struck down Canada’s laws against possessing and growing cannabis as part of a ruling that found the country’s medicinal marijuana program is failing to provide access to the drug for those who need it.

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Maine man puts decades of pot growing to use, teaching techniques to grow medical marijuana

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 12 (News) - A Maine man is teaching people how to grow medical marijuana at what's being called "Marijuana State University."

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Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Jonathan Caulkins, Jonathan Kulick, Mark Kleinman - Apr. 01 (News Analysis) -

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Grayson on Gov. Scott: "We'll all have to bend over... and cough."

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Cenk Uygur - Mar. 31 (News Analysis) - Alan Grayson blasts Florida Gov. Rick Scott about the governor's plan to drug test public employees and welfare recepients at random. Scott owns Solantic, a health care company which specializes in... you guessed it... DRUG TESTING! Also, the Supreme Court has ruled that random testing is unconstitutional.

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Authorities in Awe of Drug Runners' Jungle-Built, Kevlar-Coated Supersubs

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Jim Popkin - Mar. 29 (News) - For decades, Colombian drug runners have pursued their trade with diabolical ingenuity, staying a step ahead of authorities by coming up with one innovation after another. When false-paneled pickups and tractor-trailers began drawing suspicion at US checkpoints, the cartels and their Mexican partners built air-conditioned tunnels under the border. When border agents started rounding up too many human mules, one group of Colombian smugglers surgically implanted heroin into purebred puppies. But the drug runners’ most persistently effective method has also been one of the crudest—semisubmersible vessels that cruise or are towed just below the ocean’s surface and can hold a ton or more of cocaine.

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U.S. Drones Fight Mexican Drug Trade

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ginger Thompson, Mark Mazzetti - Mar. 16 (News Report) - Stepping up its involvement in Mexico’s drug war, the Obama administration has begun sending drones deep into Mexican territory to gather intelligence that helps locate major traffickers and follow their networks, according to American and Mexican officials.

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Conservatives latch onto prison reform

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Richard Fausset - Jan. 29 (News Report) - Reduced sentences and rehabilitation programs once were branded as liberal. But now, states such as Republican-dominated Texas are seeing success after adopting the approach.

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Mexico police: 7 slain at soccer game

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - Jan. 25 (Breaking News) - (CNN) -- A group of heavily armed gunmen opened fire at a soccer match between two local teams in western Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people and wounding two others, according to a municipal

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Portugal's drug policy pays off; US eyes lessons

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Barry Hatton, Martha Mendoza - Dec. 27 (Special Report) - At that time, Portugal, like the junkies of Casal Ventoso, had hit rock bottom: An estimated 100,000 people — an astonishing 1 percent of the population — were addicted to illegal drugs. So, like anyone with little to lose, the Portuguese took a risky leap: They decriminalized the use of all drugs in a groundbreaking law in 2000.

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Thousands on HIV drugs desperate amid budget woes

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Michelle R. Smith - Dec. 16 (News Report) - Cash-strapped states are cutting back on a program that provides free medicine to people with HIV, leaving thousands of patients to wonder where their drugs will come from and stirring fears of a return to the days when an AIDS diagnosis meant certain death.

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Gay and homeless: In plain sight, a largely hidden population

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Alexandra Zavis - Dec. 11 (News Report) - Every year, hundreds of gay youths end up on the streets of L.A. County, where they make up a disproportionate share of the people under 25 who are homeless. 'They haven't been on the streets for years and years,' an advocate says, 'so they don't look bad.'

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Gang leader blamed in Ciudad Juarez violence arrested

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Ken Ellingwood - Nov. 29 (News Report) - Arturo Gallegos Castrellon is described as the main leader of the Aztecas street gang. Mexican authorities say he confessed to numerous killings, including that of a U.S. consular employee that was previously blamed on a different Aztecas leader.Mexican authorities said Sunday that they had arrested the main leader of the Aztecas, a Ciudad Juarez street gang blamed for much of the violence in the troubled border city.

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Rio favela tweets create overnight celebrity

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Tim Hirsch - Nov. 29 (News Report) - For the past few days, Brazilians watched transfixed as scenes more reminiscent of Iraq or Afghanistan than of their own "marvellous city", Rio de Janeiro, unfolded live on TV screens.

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