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| ACSH Holiday Dinner Menu |
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| Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
| "No human diet can be free of naturally occurring chemicals that are rodent carcinogens. Of the chemicals that people eat, 99.99% are natural." — Bruce Ames, Ph.D. and Lois Swirsky Gold, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley |
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| Asthma: Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment |
| Posted: Monday, November 10, 2008 |
| Asthma is a chronic condition in which a person’s airways occasionally become inflamed, which causes swelling that obstructs airflow to the lungs. It is one of the most common chronic illnesses in the United States, and while prevalence varies by gender, race, and geographic region, it currently affects over 20 million people in this country alone. There was a dramatic spike in diagnoses of asthma between 1980 and the late 1990’s, but the number of total cases has since been |
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| What's the story? Nuclear Energy and Health |
| Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| What Is Nuclear Energy? Nuclear energy is released from atomic nuclei via controlled nuclear reactions. The most common method used today is nuclear fission, which involves the splitting of uranium atoms with a resulting release of energy. This energy is then captured and used to produce electricity to power modern societies’ varied needs. |
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| Scrutinizing Industry-Funded Science: The Crusade Against Conflicts of Interest |
| Posted: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 |
| For approximately a century, industry has been a powerful motivating force in the creation of new technology and the underwriting of scientific research. Yet the last two decades have seen the development of a sweeping conflicts of interest movement aimed squarely at curtailing academic/industry biomedical research collaborations and restricting membership on government scientific advisory boards to researchers associated with industry. |
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| Collaboration Between Science and Industry: Pro's and Con's of the Conflicts-of-Interest Movement |
| Posted: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 |
| For about a century, industry has played an important role in creating new technology and funding scientific research. Recently, though, the collaboration between science and industry has been threatened by the development of a movement that proposes to end or drastically limit such cooperation on the grounds that it involves unacceptable conflicts of interest. |
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