Liane talks with our regular medical commentators, Drs. Miriam Shuchman and Michael Wilkes. Topics include the latest food scare involving frozen strawberries served in the school lunch program that caused over 150 cases of Hepatitis A. They also discuss two recent examples of research supression by vested interests. In one case, a study that showed a popular but expensive thyroid medication was no more effective than cheaper generic brands, was published after a seven year delay...the pharmaceutical company which makes the drug and sponsored the research tried to bar its publication.
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