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Antiperspirants and the Breast Cancer Question
This story investigates the potential link between antiperspirants and breast cancer and the industry's and FDA's failure to acknowledge the possibility of a relationship. It publicizes scientific research that casts doubt on the American Cancer Society's certainty that any link between antiperspirants and breast cancer is a myth.
Tags: breast cancer; cancer; antiperspirants; American Cancer Society; FDA
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The Tow-Away Tax Break
This article investigates the concept of car donation programs and discovers that these programs benefit everyone but the charities they are intended to help. The foremost beneficiary is the car donor who can get a tax deduction of about $1200 for a car that's hardly worth $200. The second beneficiaries are the fundraisers who victimize these charities, the story says. Also, the report points out that of the $37 million raised by commercial fundraisers in 1991 through the sale of donated vehicles, only $11.5 million reached charities.
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Tiny Particles, Big Dilemma
Business Week looks at the Environmental Protection Agency pollution standards that set limits on "microscopic particles floating in the air that come from combustion of fuels" and will go into effect in about 2007. The story finds that officials' expectations that the rules will prevent 15,000 premature deaths a year may be lacking sound scientific support. The report cites studies that reveal clear link between air pollution and mortality. It also points to opposing analyses, which usually appear "where industry leaders claim the standards would cost hundreds of billions of dollars." "The fine-particle debate illustrates the core conundrum of regulation - how to make sound public policy amid uncertainty," reports Business Week.
Tags: Environmental Protection Agency; American Cancer Society; World Health Organization; death rate; research; science; regulation
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The Outlaw Doctor
New Yorker magazine profiles Nicholas Gonzalez, a doctor who prescribes nutritional diets rather than chemotherapy, to fight cancer. Gonzalez did not begin his practice until he had investigated the research of William Donald Kelly, who started the nontoxic approach in the 1960's. While Gonzalez was skeptical of Kelly's therapy in the beginning, he began to see some truth in Kelly's findings and opened up his own office in 1987. 'I had no choice other than to face the fact that he had hundreds of patients with obviously terminal disease who were still alive five, ten and fifteen years later.' Now fifteen years later, critics remain questionable about Gonzalez's philosophy, stating he "lies to cancer patients, steals their money, and kills them." But as he puts out more information and encourages doctors to research his work, some doctors are agreeing that Gonzalez may be on the right tract.
Tags: doctors; cancer; patients; funding; research; American Cancer Society; Food and Drug Administration; National Institute of Health; National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; American Medical Association; Food-Drug and Cosmetic Act; Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act
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Toxic deception: How the Chemical industry manipulates service, bends the law and endangers your health
Toxic Deception documents how the federal departments and agencies that are supposed to protect American consumers, farmers and workers from toxic chemicals have failed as watchdogs because they have been defanged by manufacturers and industry groups.
Tags: EPA Environmental Protection Agency American Cancer Society
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Mammography: Too Young to Die
"This work is the result of nine months of investigation and reporting in the United States, Canada and Sweden. The report ultimately exposed how the federal agency charged with this nation's war on cancer has not been telling the truth. KCBS reveals how many American women and physicians have been misled by the National Cancer Institute's policy on mammography. The investigation documents the N.C.I. admitting for the first time, that its mammography policy for women in their forties is a mistake. This series has been credited by members of the U.S. Congress, the American Cancer Society and some of the world's top experts in breast cancer for triggering the first National Institutes of Health hearing into this matter to be held January 21, 1997."
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The Atlantic Monthly reports on the multi-billion-dollar screening program for prostate cancer and how it will lead to unnecessary operations for elderly patients; men in their fifties and early sixties will benefit from the screenings, November 1993. # NY Mann American Cancer Society
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Penthouse Magazine reports on a drug that has shown great promise in fighting various forms of cancer and AIDS, hydrazine sulfate; finds that the drug is cheap, simple to take and works on about half of the patients it is administered to; doctors in the U.S. cancer establishment are suppressing the drug in order to protect their industry, 1993. # Kamen American Cancer Society National Cancer Institute
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