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- Nineteen drug companies agreed... to pay $176 million to settle a class-action lawsuit. Independent druggists have claimed they paid up to $28.90 for 100 tablets of a synthetic thyroid drug, while HMOs paid as little as $1.43." HealthCentral - News.
- Nuclear bombs, Radioiodine and Thyroid Cancer AACE Position on Nuclear Radioiodine Fallout.Press Release at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists site.
- Human Biological Database Interchange The HBDI, a program of the non-profit National Disease Research requires family participation in the continuing study of diabetes, thyroid disease and autism.
- Thyroid Supplements and Spongiform Encephalopathy CJD Risks Is natural thyroid extract a risk factor for Spongiform Encephalopathies like Mad Cow, BSE, CJD, TSE?
- Radium Experiment Assessment Project REAP is working to promote honest and ethical evaluation of the history of Nasopharyngeal Radium Irradiation (NRI),to promote a governmental and medical response to this public health issue. A registry of treated individuals has been initiated. NRI was used experimentally on Navy and Army Air Force personnel during WWII [about 7,600 men] and in various experiments on young children conducted by various medical institutions.
- The Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory's Thyroid Function Study:A Radiological Risk and Ethical Analysis by Committee on Evaluation of 1950s Air Force Human Health Testing in Alaska Using Radioactive Iodine131. 1996. Health effects, ethics, recommendations, informed consent elements of disclosure. Thyroid function information. Report is available for purchase in book form from the National Academy Press. Navigation at this site is quite simple. Uses frames.
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