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Informed Consent Defined

The legal standard stating how much a patient must know about the potential risks and benefits of a treatment/therapy before being able to undergo it with an adequate level of understanding.

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Does breast cancer screening do more harm than good?

Published October 6, 2008, 4:05 pm, Daily Mail

The treatment of breast cancer is seen as a medical success story - 30 years ago, just half the women diagnosed survived beyond five years, but now that number is eight out of ten. While many credit the national screening programme, other experts say the scheme is a waste of money.

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Photos: NIH Launches New Web Site for Parents on Medical Research Studies for Children

Published October 6, 2008, 10:30 am, Broadcast Newsroom

BETHESDA, Md. , Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From asthma and cancer treatments to vaccines, research in children saves lives and improves their health and well-being.

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Photos: NIH Launches New Web Site for Parents on Medical Research Studies for Children

Published October 6, 2008, 7:30 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! News

From asthma and cancer treatments to vaccines, research in children saves lives and improves their health and well-being. A new Web site from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), "Children and Clinical Studies" (www.ChildrenAndClinicalStudies.nhlbi.nih.gov), offers parents and health care providers an insider's guide to children's medical research. The Web site combines information about ...

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FOCUS: SOUTH AFRICA

Published October 5, 2008, 12:39 am, Aljazeera

The villages near the town of Mokopane, located in the Limpopo province in the northernmost tip of South Africa, contain abundant wealth, but many of their residents reside in homes without foundations and have no access to water.

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Proposal 2: Limits slow science at the University of Michigan

Published October 4, 2008, 9:32 pm, MLive.com

A large bubble, surrounded by stringy material, centers itself on the screen. It's a cluster of more than 1,000 human embryonic stem cells, which normally reside in a nitrogen-cooled freezer in O'Shea's lab in the Biomedical Science Research Building.

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Vendors: ITV no longer in business

Published October 3, 2008, 3:10 am, The Salem News

BEVERLY and mdash; ITV Ventures has laid off the majority of its remaining employees and stopped selling infomercial merchandise, according to two people who used to sell products through the company. Tracy Austin, who up until Wednesday morning sold the infomercial products as an independent business owner from her home in Greenfield, said the company has informed her it's opening a new venture ...

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ASK THE CANDIDATES

Published October 2, 2008, 9:06 pm, Burlington Post

As part of the Post’s federal election campaign coverage, residents were invited to send in a single question about one election issue that they would like candidates in the Burlington and Halton ridings to answer in 125 words or less.

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Clinical Trials Update: Oct. 2, 2008

Published October 2, 2008, 9:01 am, HealthDay via Yahoo! News

(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:

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Project Censored's Media Democracy Advocacy

Published October 2, 2008, 7:04 am, Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel

For 32 years, Sonoma State University's (SSU) Project Censored has pioneered US media democracy, research, and First Amendment issues.

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Perinatal Testicular Torsion: Preoperative Radiological Findings And The Argument For Urgent Surgical Exploration

Published October 2, 2008, 6:06 am, Medical News Today

UroToday.com - A study conducted at the University of California, San Diego described two cases in which bilateral asynchronous perinatal torsion occurred when the only presenting abnormality after birth was a unilateral scrotal mass consistent with an extravaginal intrauterine torsion. The review of the literature to date has stated that there seems to be no benefit from early intervention.

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