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The Consumer Product Safety Commission and American Girl Inc., of Middleton, Wisconsin, a division of Mattel Inc., of El Segundo, California, have announced a voluntary recall of American Girl Children’s Jewelry made in China that contains high levels of lead.

Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately.
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In structuring randomized controlled trials that target specific chronic medical conditions, researchers will, by necessity, come across a large number of individuals that suffer from comorbid conditions as well.

Clearly, when testing people with diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, elevated cholesterol, or similar medical disorders, it is likely that a significant percentage of the potential subjects will have also developed one or more of the other conditions.
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A lawsuit brought by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on behalf of 49 states has been settled by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

GSK, the world’s second largest drug company, has agreed to pay 14 million to dispose of charges it fraudulently tried to delay competitors from marketing a generic version of its anti-depressant drug Paxil (also marketed as Seroxat) though frivolous patent-infringement lawsuits.
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