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Reporting medical studies

Many medical studies are funded by pharmaceutical companies. A JAMA study suggests that newspaper articles reporting medical studies fail to mention this, despite the fact that the funding source can...

News media often do not report potential sources of bias in medical research

An analysis of news media coverage of medical studies indicates that news articles often fail to report pharmaceutical company funding and frequently refer to medications by their brand names, both...

Dry Pet Food Recall

Heads up everyone. I feel bad that I just came across this. Please take note of the brands involved. Some dry pet foods recalled Mars Petcare US announced a voluntary recall Friday of all dry...

Strange Business & Politics Facts

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.There are 100 million internet users in China. Some of the sites they can't access are BBC news,...

World Wild Web

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, had said "you CAN" by giving the nod to free up domain names and allow a variety of Web address suffixes, called top-level domain...

Taking Stock of the Newspaper Industry

Baseball Analysts (and its predecessor site) is celebrating its five-year anniversary this week. While not in on the ground floor of blogging, we have been around long enough to witness the gradual...

Quick Guide to Pronouncing Beauty Names

Living in a household that speaks 3 languages fluently, and is conversant in another 4, you'd think very little would trip me up when it comes to pronouncing beauty brand names. But the gift of...

Law of the Game on Joystiq: Used to be Fair

Filed under: FeaturesEach week Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq, a column on legal issues as they relate to video games:Based on the comments to the last few...

George Parkin Grant: A Philosopher of Localism, A Man for Europe

“Modern civilization makes all local cultures anachronistic,” wrote Canadian political philosopher George Grant (1918–1988) in his Lament for a Nation (1965). Grant, who regarded English-speaking...

Health and Fitness welcomes the BeautyZone

The BeautyZone link was recently added to make all of the great products there available to everyone who loves the products featured here at Health and Fitness. Although I can't disclose the brand...