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- Tiger fur trade thrives in China
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- EU is dealt a defeat in fight over drug prices

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Dallas Morning News - Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Sep 28, 2006
Brown, associate director of Yale University School of Medicine’s clinic for attention and related disorders in New Haven, Connecticut. The study is the first to show medication use is also spreading within families, he said. "If you have one person who tries the medicine and it’s helpful to them, that could cause other members of the family who have similar problems to consider it as well," Brown said. In some cases, "day by day there is dramatic improvement that often comes from it," he said. The medication isn’t a cure-all, Brown said, likening it to eyeglasses that only help when a person has them on. About 8 of 10 people with ADHD improve with drug therapy, he said in a telephone interview today. A report from the same Medco group last year showed diagnoses among adults aged 20 to 64 was growing twice as fast as diagnoses in children… In the past few months, several drugmakers strengthened warnings on their attention-deficit drugs, saying they may cause psychological side effects and misuse may lead to sudden death from heart attacks and strokes. "If you’re thinking about your family and you have one or more taking an ADHD drug, it’s time to take a second look," Epstein said. "You definitely get the question about nature versus nurture.

FINDINGS - washingtonpost.com
Washington Post - Sep 28, 2006
The benefits were mixed for the others, and about three-quarters of the whole group relapsed and needed insulin injections again. The patients had severe cases of Type 1 diabetes — the less common form, once known as juvenile diabetes — which is not linked to obesity. The team, led by James Shapiro of the University of Alberta in Canada, report their findings in today’s New England Journal of Medicine. The experiment, partly funded by the U. government, was conducted at nine hospitals in North America and Europe. Experts said that the treatment, involving pancreatic cells from donated cadavers, holds promise and that they think it will not be long before doctors figure out how to extend the benefit to more diabetics.

Family doctors sought in Wyoming
Rocky Mountain News - Sep 28, 2006
Gregory McCue, a family practicephysician with the Billings Clinic in Cody. McCue said not only are rural populations aging and in need of moremedical attention, the doctors caring for those populations are gettingolder and preparing to retire. “There are fewer people choosing to go into general medicine,” hesaid. “This is largely because younger physicians realize this can be amore demanding lifestyle the way it is currently practiced. But alsothe reimbursement is significantly less than other specialties. Wyoming’s rural nature also contributes to its shortage ofphysicians, said Susie Pouliot, executive director of the WyomingMedical Society. “Sometimes it’s difficult to find professional opportunities forspouses, that kind of thing,” Pouliot said… “This is largely because younger physicians realize this can be amore demanding lifestyle the way it is currently practiced. But alsothe reimbursement is significantly less than other specialties. Wyoming’s rural nature also contributes to its shortage ofphysicians, said Susie Pouliot, executive director of the WyomingMedical Society. “Sometimes it’s difficult to find professional opportunities forspouses, that kind of thing,” Pouliot said. Another is the fact that Wyoming’s rural physicians rely heavily onreimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid. That doesn’t help theirbottom line - and physicians nationwide are facing steep Medicare cutsnext year, Pouliot said. Pouliot also pointed to Wyoming’s medical malpractice insurancerates.

Tiger fur trade thrives in China
Mongabay.com - Sep 28, 2006
comSeptember 28, 2006The illegal tiger and leopard fur trade continues to thrive in China according to recent investigations by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI). The organizations say that the trade is “operating without any hindrance from the Chinese government” and endangers surviving wild tiger populations in India… html>China may reopen trade in tiger parts warns WWF. China is considering reopening the domestic trade in tigers and tiger parts, banned there since 1993, a move that would spell disaster for the already endangered species, according to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and TRAFFIC. China’s plans appear to be limited to the trade of captive-bred tigers for traditional medicine from so-called “tiger farms. ” But WWF and TRAFFIC believe any legal trade would also threaten the world’s remaining wild tiger populations by making it easier to “launder” black market tiger parts. Tiger bone has been used as a treatment for rheumatism and related ailments for thousands of years in traditional Asian medicine.

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WHAS 11.com - WHAS 11.com (subscription) - Sep 28, 2006
An increasingly agitated Cowboys head coach Bill Parcells met with reporters Wednesday afternoon, saying he didn’t yet have a "clear picture" of what happened to Owens. "Let me find out what the heck’s going on," Parcells said. "I don’t think something of this nature is what I would term a distraction. It’s apparently a set of unfortunate circumstances and I’d rather be clear on what they are before I comment on the future. " Parcells said he planned to continue getting his team ready for the next game at Tennessee on Sunday. "When I find out what the hell is going on, you will know. Until then, I’m not getting interrogated for no reason," Parcells said as he angrily left the news conference after being peppered with Owens-related questions for nine minutes… He chatted briefly with reporters in the locker room in the afternoon and seemed fine. A 2-inch scar on the top of his hand was puffy but not wrapped, and he said the swelling was going down. While in the locker room, he took a pill from a white paper bag and looked at another medicine bottle that was in the bag. He also called a business partner about a towel-wrap venture they’re starting and joked to TV cameras that he wasn’t talking until Wednesday and today was only Tuesday. "My little boy knows better than that," he said, laughing, as he plopped onto a sofa in the middle of the locker room. Also Tuesday, Owens was involved in launching a national campaign for the National Alliance to End Abuse, an organization aimed at helping at-risk youngsters. He appeared at a high school Tuesday morning and was scheduled to visit others but had to cancel because of changes in the team’s practice schedule.

US REPRESENTATIVE F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER JR. (R-WI) HOLDS A MARKUP OF…
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SENSENBRENNER: Without objection, so ordered. Without objection, all members may put their statements in the record at this point. Are there amendments? The chair recognizes himself for the purpose of offering an amendment in the nature of a substitute, which the clerk will report.

EU is dealt a defeat in fight over drug prices
International Herald Tribune - Sep 28, 2006
The commission also did not examine carefully enough whether drug restrictions "might give rise to an economic advantage by contributing to innovation, which plays a central role in the pharmaceutical sector," the court said. Christophe de Callatay, a spokesman for the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, said the court decision "shows the wind is going in our direction. "He said the ruling "adds pressure on the commission to change its attitude" and that "industrial policy in Europe toward medicines has been failure. "But a group representing companies that engage in cross-border tradingpleaded for the EU to stand firm… " Todd said that the commission had not decided whether to appeal. Trade in discounted medicines is one of the most fiercely contested practices within the pharmaceutical industry in Europe. More than 140 million packs of medicine are transported every year under so-called parallel trade arrangements, according to Peter Behner, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and an expert on pharmaceuticals. Sales made by the traders are worth about €4 billion, or $5 billion, each year, he said, and that creates an annual sales loss to big pharmaceutical companies of up to €4. The lost profits for all pharmaceutical companies operating in Europe add up to about €2. 5 billion each year.