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FDA Advisory Panel Wrong to Advocate Sale of Birth Control Patch

COMMENTARY | In March 2006, my sister's life was changed forever. She suffered a massive stroke and barely escaped with her life. This horror that my family suffered was attributed to the Ortho Evra Birth Control patch.But the battle of whether to pull the drug off the shelf has been ongoing for several years with no end in sight. Even as women know the risks, they still continue to use the patch, relatively ignorant of its effects. read more..

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Faith versus science, in 'How the World Began'

A thoughtless remark by a pregnant science teacher transplanted from New York infuriates a doggedly religious teenage student in a shattered rural community, and their arguments about faith and evolution escalate in tune with their passionately held but incompatible viewpoints. read more..

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