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Airport Bacteria
KGTV sampled and tested the airport carpet and tile to find out just what passengers are exposed to in the security screening areas of Phoenix, Las Vegas and San Diego.
Tags: airports; bacteria; security screening; germs;
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Asbestos Testing Wars
Asbestos testing companies screen likely candidates to determine whether or not their lungs have been affected. This series of articles finds that these companies hire workers who are underqualified to perform tests and that they are driven by profits to diagnose as many people as possible with lung damage because they work for or are paid by lawyers who benefit from the cases. One concern is that those who file with little to no illness are depleting the sources of money for those with serious asbestos damage.
Tags: asbestos; Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act; union; cancer; plaintiff; testing company; screening company; lung disease
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Hepatitis C: Silent Alarm
This series documented the government's numerous failures to warn the American public about hepatitis C, a disease that has infected more than 4 million people in the United States. The series found that the federal government promised repeatedly to raise a public alarm about the disease but reneged almost every time. As a result, most people with hepatitis C don't even know they have it and may be spreading it. The series also found that Congress and CDC give hepatitis C a fraction of the funding and attention they give other disease such as West Nile, that has killed several hundreds. The government promised a search to find nearly two hundred thousand patients who received infected blood transfusions before 1992, when a test was available to screen out infected blood, but four years later, the campaign had stalled. The blood industry in the 1980's delayed a screening test six years that could have prevented hepatitis C in more than 300,000 patients who received blood transfusions. the government never ordered the test even though it was aware of the seriousness of the disease.
Tags: hepatitis c; virus; AIDS; public alarm; Congress; Center for Disease Control and Prevention; HCV; funding; West Nile; infected blood transfusions; infected blood; blood industry; screening test; donated blood; CDC; CDC spending; HCV money; National Institute of Health; Health and Human Services; U.S. Food and Drug Administration; FDA's Office of Blood Research and Review; Blood Products Advisory Committee; Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability; blood banks; Community Blood Center of Kansas City; Oklahoma Blood Institute
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Two part series. Part 1: U.S. Olympians had failed drug tests: Documents reveal a reluctance to penalize athletes who tested positive before the Games. Part 2: Too Few Surprises: U.S. athletes don't face as many drug tests as those in other countries do. And they usually know it's coming.
The Orange County Register's stories are about special treatment for U.S. athletes during the Olympics. The stories explain how U.S. athletes are rarely given surprise drug tests. Story includes multiple graphics including a Question and Answer graphic, a graphic explaining how drug testing works, common drugs found in test results, and many more.
Tags: U.S. athletes; athletes; Olympics; drug testing; drug tests; sports; competition; drug screening; Olympic Games; athletics
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Flunking Grade: Psychological Tests Designed to Weed Out Rogue Cops Get a 'D'
The Wall Street Journal investigates the psychological tests designed to weed out bad cops and finds "critics say they fail to halt racial and other abuse." However, other police cite gains.
Tags: cops; police; psychological tests; racism; police brutality; personality tests; LAPD; job screening
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Red Cross Investigation
CBS investigates "widespread mismanagement and fraud" the Red Cross has been grappling with. Based on internal memos and audits, the series reports on how Joseph Lecowitch, head of the New Jersey chapter stole more than one million dollars. Other findings are that many chapters have not remitted their Sept. 11 donations to national headquarters; chapters are dipping into the National Disaster Fund "for unnamed purposes;" blood has been taken from donors who said they tested positive for AIDS or were not properly screened; and suspected transfusion-related diseases are not investigated.
Tags: Elizabeth Dole; lobbying; FDA; safety; health; embezzlement; fraud; charity; 9/11; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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Electroscan: Alternative to mammogram being tested
This report examines an experimental breast cancer screening device. It is supposed to "measure the electrical differences inside the breast tissue at the cellular level."
Tags: Celldata Medical Technologies Sutter Cancer Center BCEPD Barry Hirschowitz Kwok Li
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No title (id: 10929)
Money Magazine's investigation found that reasons for continued HIV transmission include inherent flaws in the screening test most commonly used in blood banks. The story concluded that American Red Cross and other blood banking leaders and FDA regulators have not done all they can do to reduce the odds of acquiring HIV through blood products. The article also makes recommendations that would improve the safety of blood supply, May 1994.
Tags: NY Rock American Red Cross Blood banks Transfusions 9 pages
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No title (id: 10317)
American Lawyer reveals that most of the nations blood banks did not institute a test to screen blood for AIDS until two full years after the federal Center for Disease Control warned them that they should; at least 12,000 people were infected with the virus as a result, September 1992.
Tags: CA Parloff 6 pages
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No title (id: 9520)
New Yorker recounts the how thousands of French citizens were infected with the HIV virus and AIDS because the French government refused to screen the nation's blood supply with the American-produced blood test; French citizens were knowingly infected because of national pride, Oct. 11, 1993. # Kramer World Health Organization
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