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Paint Removers New Products Eliminate Qld Hazards (1991). Consumer Reports (May), 340-343. 

Zimbabwe Officers view television advertisements Consumer reporting As stipulated in the regulations... 

Q. My attention has been drawn recently to an employment agreement which requires the prospective employee to sign an authorization by an employer to allow a consumer reporting agency to inquire into many personal aspects of his life. Doesn t this seem to go as a rather undue invasion of personal privacy to ask an individual to sign such an agreement This is in fulfillment of Public Law No. 91-508. 

Consumer Reports, March 1985, warned against "licking your fingers while eating raw meat" and said that the findings by Holmberg "appear to pull the rug out from under" those who had claimed there was no link between antibiotics in feed and human disease. The "hundreds of thousands of cases" are not... 

Consumer Reports, Insect Repellents Which keep bugs at bay , June, 2006. 

Periodicals Magazines and newspapers—articles may be found in hard copy, on microfilm or microfiche, or in electronic databases The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Science Teacher, Consumer Reports... 

Consumer Reports Klustrated that information alone can be a powerful weapon for consumers when it rated as unacceptable the Suzuki Samurai in 1988 (Levin 1988) and the Isuzu Trooper in 1996 (Boot 1996). 

Eisenberg DM, Kessler RC, Van Rompay MI, et al. Perceptions about complementary therapies relative to conventional therapies among adults who use both results from a national survey. Ann Intern Med 2001 135(5) 344-351. MedWatch FDA. http //www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety.htm (accessed 3-1-2004). Dangerous supplements. Consumer Reports, 12, 2004. http //www.consumer-reports.org/main/content/display report.jsp FOLDER%3C%3 Efolder id= 419341 ASSORTMENT%3C%3East id=333141 (accessed 5-3-2004). 

Ginseng Much ado about nothing Consumer Reports, Nov. 1995 699. Obach RS. Inhibition of human cytochrome P450 enzymes by constituents of St. John s wort s, an herbal preparation used in the treatment of depression. J Pharmacol Expl Ther 2000 294 88-95. 

Detrol, Sanctura, Vesicare, and Enablex. A test of these drugs by Consumer Reports found that they are only modestly effective and have unpleasant side effects such as dry mouth, constipation, and mental confusion.49 Another heavily advertised drug called Flomax improves urination among men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (an enlargement of the prostate that commonly occurs among older men). 

Consumer Reports, Overactive Bladder Summary of Recommendations, Consumer Reports Health.org. Available online. URL http //www.consumerreports. org/health/best-buy-drugs/bladder.htm. Downloaded April 12, 2009. 

Celebrex New Ad, with Questionable Claims. Consumer Reports 72, no. 8 (August 2007) 52-53. This article illustrates the kind of misleading claims that often appear in DTC drug ads. It examines claims made in an ad that Celebrex poses no more risks than other prescription pain relievers. 

In addition to more that 300 papers published in professional journals, Dr. Cohen has written six books Heart of the Atom (Doubleday, 1967), translated into French, German, Italian, and Japanese Concepts of Nuclear Physics (McGraw-Hill, 1971), translated into Arabic and republished by Tata McGraw-Hill (India) Nuclear Science and Society (Doubleday, 1974) Before It s Too Late A Scientist s Case for Nuclear Power (Plenum, 1983), translated into Turkish Radon (Consumer Reports Books, 1987, and Avon Books, 1989) and The Nuclear Energy Option, Alternative for the Nineties (Plenum, 1990), tran slate d into Jap an e s e an d Span -ish. Dr. Cohen developed an inexpensive, accurate radon measurement device thathas been used by thousands of homeowners. 

Nuclear scientists have tried very hard to get these points to the public by submitting articles for publication in magazines. I managed to get articles in lower-tier magazines like Family-Health, Commentary, National Review, Catholic Digest, Reason, Consumer Reports, American Legion Magazine, but all my submissions to top-tier publications were rejected. To this day, none of these risk comparisons has been presented to the vast majority of the public, and the responsibility for this educational failure lies with the media. 

Anon. (1990b). Consumer report Food irradiation - the consumer s view. Survey Research Group, The Association for Consumer Research, London. 

Sports Supplement Dangers. Consumer Reports 66, no. 6 (June 2001) 40. 

Consumer Reports Complete Drug Reference, 2002 Edition. Denver Micromedex Thomson Healthcare, 2001. 

Herbal drugs may contain additives not listed on the label, and these additives are sometimes the source of the herbal medicine s effect. Investigations by Consumer Reports and others have shown herbal products to contain aspirin, caffeine, steroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics, sedatives, and even narcotics. 

In a survey conducted by Consumer Reports (2003), over 85 percent of customers were very sat-... 

Consumer Reports. 2003. Time to switch dmgstores Consumer Reports 68 30. 

Barry Stimmel and the editors of Consumer Reports Books. The Facts About Drug Use (New York The Haworth Medical Press, 1993), p. 190. 

EM Brecher and the editors of Consumer Reports, Licit and Illicit Drugs, Chaps 14-19, Boston, Little, Brown (1972)... 

Accurate information on solvent sniffing will be found in Licit and lllicJt Drugs by Edward M. Brecher and the editors of Consumer Reports (Boston Little, Brown, 1972). A sophisticated book that focuses on solvent use in Scotland is Solvent Abme The Adolescent Epidemic by Joyce Watson (London and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire Croom Helni, 1986). 

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