HRW: Colombia Inadequate in Helping Landless

HRW: Colombia inadequate in helping landless

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BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia has "chronically failed" to protect people trying to reclaim stolen land, threatening to sabotage President Juan Manuel Santos' unprecedented efforts to end the Western Hemisphere's worst internal refugee problem, a major …
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Use of Digoxin Associated with Higher Risk of Death for Patients Diagnosed

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20, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — Digoxin, a drug commonly used to treat heart conditions, was associated with a 72 percent higher rate of death among adults with newly diagnosed systolic heart failure, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that appears in …
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Kids who drink too much energy drinks!

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A report from the Drug Abuse Warning Network, a US public health surveillance system that monitors possible drug-related deaths and visits to hospital emergency rooms, noted that there were 20,783 visits related to energy drinks in 2011 alone. That's …
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On litigation, great and small

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The simple fact of the matter is that, while a drug (or device) company supposedly might be able to fool some of the medical community some of the time, it's simply not possible to fool all of the medical community all of the time. Herricks … And we …
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Addiction in the Workplace: Dr. Ray W Steinman MD, DABAM,CCSAM, CASAM, SAP – E. Brian Johnson in conversation with leading addiction treatment specialists at Bellwood’s “Many Faces of Addiction” Symposium 2011 held at Toronto’s Ontari…