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Article: Persistent organic pollutants.(Health Risks and Environmental Issues)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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Why is cancer mortality increasing in the United States? Why is the incidence of diabetes, asthma, allergies, and arthritis climbing? Why are birth defects, learning disabilities, behavior problems, neurological and muscular disorders escalating?
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We are inundated with media coverage of the latest miracle drug for this disease or that disorder, not to mention recent whistle-blowing reports of highly marketed drugs that increasingly harm, even kill, the very patients they are supposed to help. Billions, (including huge allotments of tax dollars), are spent researching and marketing pharmaceutical drugs. (1) Pharmaceutical profits ...