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Evidence Underlying Repeated Courses of Steroids for Preterm Birth may Be Unsound

Scientists have warned that giving repeated courses of steroid drugs to mothers at risk of preterm delivery may be based on unsound evidence . Babies born before 32 weeks of pregnancy often have neonatal lung disease, a major cause of illness and death. Several previous analyses co...

American Council on Exercise (ACE) Endorses Appointment of Dr. Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General of the United States

...ortance of regular physical activity in enhancing the quality and quantity of their lives, and expound on the potential risks associated with adopting unsound fitness practices and programs, all of which are consistent with and support Dr. Gupta's goals of educating and motivating Americans to lead active, h...

UK Physicians Fear New Revalidation Procedures Will Reduce Morale, Decrease Time with Patients and Belittle GP Professionalism, According to New TNS Healthcare Research

...ng the new process 'a shallow political gesture [with] no cost benefit evidence to support it.' Another called it 'another costly exercise based on an unsound premise that pulls yet more time away from our patients.' Still others spoke about potentially resigning or moving overseas. Clearly, physicians have ...

Public Interest Groups Back Federal Court Appeal to Implement New U.S. Patent Rules; Proposed Regulations Would Curtail Abusive Behavior by Patent Applicants

...arly the public interest against the harms caused by undeserved patents and unsound patent policy. PUBPAT provides the general public and specific persons or e...ess, public health organizations and civil society groups. I-MAK challenges unsound patent systems globally and works toward creating systemic change so that n...

Consumer Groups File Appeal on Challenge of Human Stem Cell Patent Held By WARF

...nization that represents the public's interests against the harms caused by the patent system, particularly the harms caused by undeserved patents and unsound patent policy. For more information, visit us on the web at http://www.pubpat.org/ . ...

Closer Analysis Shows Consumer Groups Make Gains in Stem Cell Patent Challenges Against WARF; Appeal Still Planned Against Narrowed Claims

...tion that represents the public's interests against the harms caused by the patent system, particularly the harms caused by wrongly issued patents and unsound patent policy. For more information, visit us on the web at http://www.pubpat.org . ...

Consumer Groups Will Continue to Press Stem Cell Patent Challenge

...tion that represents the public's interests against the harms caused by the patent system, particularly the harms caused by wrongly issued patents and unsound patent policy. For more information, visit us on the web at http://www.pubpat.org . ...

Health Capital Group Warns of Fallout to Hospitals From the Subprime Mortgage Crisis and Urges Hospitals to Immediately Reassess Existing Debt Structures and Capital Financing Plans

...are not going to remove some fundamental and very serious problems in the financial sector, problems resulting from billions of dollars of essentially unsound home mortgage loans that were then repackaged and sold as securities with inadequate due diligence by some key market gatekeepers," said Unland. "Some...

International brain aging expert challenges the existence of Alzheimer's as a 'disease'

... we knew about brain aging. Dr. Whitehouse and co-author Daniel George, M. Sc., published The Myth of Alzheimers to expose what they believe to be the unsound clinical, political, and scientific framework of AD and explain why it continues to be so difficult to address a condition concerning so many people a...

Consumer Specialty Products Association Highly Critical of NRDC Study on Home Air Fresheners

... * Generalizations about Phthalates are irresponsible: Making generalizations about phthalates, as NRDC does in its paper, is scientifically unsound and irresponsible. Phthalates include a large array of chemicals used in industrial and consumer products. While some have been shown to have ...

Unsound in Medical Technology

U.S. Patent Office Rejects Key HIV/AIDS Drug Patents at PUBPAT Request: Government Finds Prior Art Submitted By PUBPAT Invalidates All of Gilead Sciences' Claims

...ervices organization working to protect the public from the harms caused by the patent system, particularly the harms caused by undeserved patents and unsound patent policy. PUBPAT provides the general public and those specific persons or businesses otherwise deprived of access to the system governing patent...

Consumer Advocates Support Patent Office on Stem Cell Patent Rejection

...tion that represents the public's interests against the harms caused by the patent system, particularly the harms caused by wrongly issued patents and unsound patent policy. For more information, visit us on the web at http://www.pubpat.org . ...

Unsound in Biological Technology

Animal Protection Groups Condemn FDA's Endorsement of Animal Cloning

...rector of campaigns, states that "It is an outrage that the FDA has misrepresented animal health and welfare implications. Cloning is a scientifically unsound and ethically challenged technology that has extremely disturbing welfare implications for animals." Scientific studies included in the FDA's asse...

New Initiative Has Shocking Effect: Thousands of Missourians with Abnormal Chromosome Structures Are Not Human

...eceptive and far- reaching initiative petition filed last week by opponents of embryonic stem cell research: It is so poorly worded and scientifically unsound that it would exclude Missourians with common chromosomal abnormalities like Down, Klinefelter and Turner syndromes from its definition of "human." I...