Fw: Great Info on Hormone Therapy/Parkinson's/Arthritis drugs/BMS

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Subject: Great Info on Hormone Therapy/Parkinson's/Arthritis drugs/BMS

> Thanks much to " \ " TOXIC\ " News & Views " <toxicnews@...> for

> the heads up on the following articles:

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> Arthritis drugs linked to heart attacks There's growing suspicion

that

> switching from aspirin to a more stomach-friendly arthritis drug could

> increase some people's risk of heart attacks -- and a study suggests the

> reason: a drug-caused chemical imbalance that spurs blood clots.

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> http://www.msnbc.com/news/740542.asp

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> Hormone therapy benefits questioned. A new report from an international

> panel of experts, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, raises

> serious questions about many of the supposed benefits of hormone

> replacement therapy.

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> http://www.msnbc.com/news/740694.asp

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> Pesticide link to Parkinson's probed Preliminary results from a study of

> thousands of farmers in Iowa and North Carolina suggest exposure to

> several crop pesticides may be linked to the development of Parkinson's

> disease.

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> http://www.msnbc.com/news/740692.asp

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> New York-based Bristol-Myers, which has extensive operations in New

Jersey,

> said Schiff left to pursue other interests. His departure is part of a

> management shake-up that included the resignation of Lane,

> president of worldwide medicines.

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