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Online FDA Regulations: Implications for Medical Writers
Availability of online Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations is contributing to a shift in medical writers' organizational role from a peripheral to a central role where their responsibilities for the persuasiveness of documents and compliance ...
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Toshiba releases three CELL Regza 3D HDTVs
Toshiba has announced a trio of 3D HDTVs in Japan, continuing the industry's steady march toward 3D adoption. All three models feature CELL processors, which lets them use realtime 2D-to-3D conversion on videos (although the effectiveness of the ...
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Board moves to audit L.A. County children services
Following a Times report about the suicide of an 11-year-old boy, two county supervisors introduce a proposal to evaluate the department's management and effectiveness in child abuse investigation. ...
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Got a Limited Screening Budget? Then Colonoscopys Not Your Test.
The study relies on computer simulations to gauge cost-effectiveness.
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ENCORE CARTOON: Jefferson confronted by the New Americans
Everybody's a critic...
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Music Reviews: Band delivered with the proper blend of urgency and plaintiveness.
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Marcia Reynolds: The Fine Art of Assertiveness
Good leaders and business owners have learned the power of developing traits that might not match what is typically defined by gender. Unfortunately, this isn't always honored and encouraged, especially for women. There seems to be more receptiveness ...
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A leap forward in addiction awareness and control
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) the study designed the two programmes and examined their effectiveness in helping excessive drinkers reduce their drinking. The AACTP and LEAP programmes address the challenges faced by ...
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Bill Scher: The Conservative Smear Machine Has Failed Conservatism
Earlier this week, NYTimes.com highlighted the above Bloggingheads.tv clip of Conor Friedersdorf and myself discussing the effectiveness of, in Conor's words, the attitude of parts of both conservative and progressive movements to treat politics as ...
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Laboratory in microdrops: Credit card-size microflow system handles thousands of experiments
Tens of thousands of chemical and biochemical experiments may be conducted daily with the use of a microflow system of the size of a credit card, developed by scientists in Poland. The device has already been tested in research on the effectiveness of ...
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Gulf oil spill: 100 days of disaster
The first 100 days of the BP Gulf oil catastrophe have provided an object lesson in the destructiveness and irrationality of capitalism.
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Angelina Singing Brad Pitts Praises
Actress Angelina Jolie has gone on record and stated that partner Brad Pitt is an excellent father.She is currently in TOKYO to promote her movie Salt, but took time out of her schedule to rave about Brad and his attentiveness when it comes to ...
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CEI Letter Opposing CAREAct:
(Todd Zywicki) The Competitive Enterprise Institute has organized a timely letter opposing the Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness (CARE) Act. The aim of the law is to largely overturn Granholm v. Heald by making it easier for states to ...
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No Race to the Top money, no surprise
Washington may not be getting any federal reform money but at the end of the day it is still responsible for dramatically improving the quality of public education and teacher effectiveness.
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Colombia's president begs forgiveness for estranged relations with neighbors
&$ &$Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe waves to supporters during a public tribute to Uribe for his eight years in power in Medellin July 16, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)&$ &$ Outgoing Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Tuesday asked Colombians to ...
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Women in their 40s have lower mammographic tumor detectability
The reduced effectiveness of mammographic screening in women in their forties is primarily due to lower detectability instead of faster tumor growth rate, according to a study published online July 27 in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute. ...
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Can Brett Favre Once Again Be an Elite Fantasy Option in 2010?
If there's one thing we've all learned about Brett Favre , it's that he's not to be doubted. We know not to doubt his leadership, his ability to win games, and his indecisiveness .But we're all also slowly learning not to doubt his ability to be an ...
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness
July 2010 What hard liquor, cigarettes, heroin, and crack have in common is that they 're all more concentrated forms of less addictive predecessors. Most if not all the things we describe as addictive are. And the scary thing is, the process that ...
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Predicting drug responsiveness in cancer patients
Drugs such as everolimus that target the protein mTOR are used to treat several forms of cancer, but not all patients respond to the treatment. A team of researchers, led by Alberto Bardelli, at the University of Turin Medical School, Italy, has now ...
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Tokyo bourse may cut lunch
TOKYO - THE Tokyo Stock Exchange is considering doing away with its 90-minute lunch break and extending its trading hours in a bid to increase its competitiveness against emerging Asian rivals. Asia's biggest bourse may also introduce after-hours ...
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FDA Questions Anticlotting Drug
In a review posted on its website Monday, the FDA questioned the effectiveness of ticagrelor, a proposed anticlotting drug developed by AstraZeneca.
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Afghan Wiki Leak: Pakistan, Karzai Doubt U.S. Effectiveness
Nobody ought to be surprised that Pakistan and Afghan President Karzai are acting at odds with U.S. strategy, because they have little faith in that strategy
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How effective is your security monitoring?
Can you police the policing? Workshop Poll For many organisations, the litmus test for IT security effectiveness is whether or not security breaches are reduced as a result. Security monitoring should help, but modern environments are complex and ...
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The Cassock
Today most symbols are gone, and gone with them is the sense of community cohesiveness that they used to communicate.
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College Degree Gap Incites Concern
Adding to a drumbeat of concern about the nations dismal college-completion rates, the College Board warned Thursday that the growing gap between the United States and other countries threatens to undermine American economic competitiveness. (N
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Watchdog Urges Mandatory Mortgage Principal Reductions
The watchdog thatoversees the effectiveness of the governments bailout programs again urged the U.S. Treasury to make either discretionary or mandatory a program to rescue borrowers from foreclosure through mortgage principal reductions. ...
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EPA Employees Blow the Whistle on Flawed Climate Bills
Washington, DC - The major bills before Congress to regulate greenhouse gases to combat global climate change suffer from "multiple unfixable flaws" that undermine their effectiveness, according to a detailed congressional disclosure by two U.S. ...
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Irish prices drop, but remain too expensive
The cost of doing business in Ireland is falling but remains expensive, as companies continue to pay over the odds for legal fees, property, waste disposal, and broadband, the Republic's National Competitiveness Council (NCC) said. Related Stories Over ...
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Cooper: Profiling Texas A&M's Jerrod Johnson
He may be the most intriguing receiver prospect in this class because just when you think he doesn't have enough speed or elusiveness to play receiver...
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Will New Diplomatic Service Help EU To Speak With One Voice
BRUSSELS -- The European Union is just months away from launching a new unified diplomatic service. But any hopes that the new structure will bring greater focus and effectiveness to the bloc's foreig...
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