19 culprits named as U.S. seeks 100 in terror probe
The Justice Department has put a face on what had been a largely faceless, if horrific, conspiracy, releasing the names of 19 hijackers it says are responsible for seizing four...
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Officials scour U.S. for clues
The investigation into the monumental terrorist assaults in New York and Washington wound through manicured Florida towns Wednesday, leading FBI agents to flight schools for private pilots and other unlikely...
ABBOTT SAYS RESEARCHERS LIED TO U.S.
Underscoring the intense competition to find more effective treatments for cancer, Abbott Laboratories has sued world-renowned cancer researcher Dr. Judah Folkman, accusing him of stealing the credit for an experimental...
HOW TRIALS WORK
Virtually all data on new drugs and medical treatments come from a single source: the Phase III clinical trial, a carefully orchestrated scientific experiment in which hundreds or even thousands...
STATISTICS TELL SKETCHY STORIES
By a 2-to-1 ratio, Americans say they dread cancer more than any other disease--even more than heart disease, for decades the nation's biggest killer. Becuase of that overriding fear, cancer...
DRUGS WILL BE TESTED MOSTLY ON PATIENTS BEYOND ANY HOPE
Standard "Phase I" drug trials are designed to see whether a drug is safe in humans, not whether it actually works. Answering that question requires two more phases of testing...
FRAIL GIRL FALLS BETWEEN THE CRACKS
Every few minutes the conversation stops short in the tiny house as another jet swings low overhead, carrying sun-seekers from Milan or Montreal to this sun-drenched resort city at the...
AIR FORCE ONE, WHITE HOUSE, CAPITOL HAVE DEFIBRILLATORS
In deciding whether to require defibrillators on airplanes and in office buildings, stadiums and other public places, the federal bureaucracy is moving at typically glacial speeds. But as legislators and...
DEAN HAMER’S ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF `GAY GENES’
Dean Hamer doesn't claim to have found the gene, or even the set of genes, that contributes to a propensity for homosexuality. What Hamer reported in a July 1993 article...
SUMMARY FROM INQUIRY NOTES IRREGULARITIES
Following is a summary of findings from the preliminary investigation by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) on 23 of 29 patients enrolled by the Memorial Cancer Research Foundation of Southern...