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Research and Testing

Bernstein, Nina. "For Subjects in Haiti Study, Free AIDS Care Has a Price." New York Times, June 6, 1999.

French, Howard W. "AIDS Research in Africa: Juggling Risks and Hopes." New York Times, October 9, 1997.

Saltus, Richard. "AIDS Drug Researchers Say Firm Pressured Them." Boston Globe, November 1, 2000.

Groopman, Jerome. "In an AIDS Study, The Devil Is In The Details." New York Times, April 2, 2000.

Meier, Barry. "Contracts Keep Drug Research Out of Reach." New York Times, November 29, 2004.

Grady, Denise. "F.D.A. Employee Seeks Legal Help From Whistle-Blower's Group." New York Times, November 24, 2004.

Meier, Barry. "Medicine Fueled by Marketing Intensified Trouble for Pain Pills." New York Times, December 19, 2004.

Solomon, John. "AIDS Chief Says He Rewrote Safety Report." Boston Globe, December 15, 2004.

Harris, Gardiner. "Report Assails F.D.A. Oversight of Clinical Trials." New York Times, September 23, 2007.

Krugman, Paul. "Drugs, Devices and Doctors." New York Times, December 16, 2005.

Abelson, Reed. "Financial Ties Are Cited as Issue in Spine Study." New York Times, January 30, 2008.

Smaller, Barbara. "It's fine to discover cures..." Cartoon, The New Yorker, September 15, 2008.

Begley, Sharon. "Andy Grove: Where are the Cures?!" Newsweek, November 10, 2008

Kolata, Gina. "New Arena for Testing of Drugs: Real World." New York Times, November 25, 2008.

Berenson, Alex, Gardiner Harris, Barry Meier, and Andrew Pollack. "Despite Warnings, Drug Giant Took Long Path to Vioxx Recall." New York Times, November 14, 2004.

Hall, Stephen S. "The Short of It." New York Times , October 16, 2005.

Erlanger, Steven. "Vienna Buries Child Victims of the Nazis." New York Times, April 29, 2002.

Rothstein, Edward. "The Tainted Science of Nazi Atrocities." New York Times, January 8, 2005.

Pinker, Steven. "Sniffing Out the Gay Gene." New York Times, May 17, 2005.

Taubes, Gary. "Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy?" New York Times, September 16, 2007.

Grady, Denise. "White Doctors, Black Subjects: Abuse Disguised as Research." New York Times, January 23, 2007.

Broad, William J. "Applying Science to Alternative Medicine." New York Times, September 29, 2008.

 

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