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Advocates say FDA should ban all non-medical use of antibiotics in animals

Health & Medicine

Farmers often use low doses of antibiotics on their large farms to keep disease at bay. But critics say that’s leading to drug resistant bugs that are killing people. A new court ruling will require the FDA to stop the use of two specific antibiotics, but activists are targeting the whole range of antibiotics used in animals.

Big pharma’s role in mental illness

Health & Medicine

Dan Rather and Why Bush’s “Lost Year” Still Matters

The World

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Conflict & Justice

Innovative Design Turns Insulin Pump Into Fashion Accessory

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How an Afghan Methadone Clinic is Fighting to Counter HIV

Conflict & Justice

HIV is spreading among Afghanistan’s injection drug users, and a methadone clinic was recently opened in Kabul to help the problem.

The World

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Conflict & Justice

One classic reinvention fantasy goes like this: you leave a square, respectable job and write a best-selling book. Elizabeth Wurtzel did just that – but in reverse. Wurtzel explains to Kurt Andersen why intellectual property law is where’s it’s at.

The World

Canada Looks out for Cows

The Canadian government recently rejected Monsanto’s application to use Bovine Growth Hormone in that country’s cows. But the ruling had nothing to do with the hormone’s human health impacts. Instead, Canadian commentator Suzanne Elston says they were protecting the health of their herds.

The Clinton Watershed

Steve talks about the likely shifts in environmental policy and the outlook for the next four years with Sierra Club President Tony Ruckle and Ken Lay, President of the Enron Corporation and a member of President Bush’s Commission on Environmental Quality.

Bush on the Environment

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