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HEALTH / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 1:09am neoform

SF Gate -- A federal appeals court upheld the U.S. government's authority Wednesday to prosecute medical marijuana patients in California, but left open the possibility that a gravely ill patient could defend against criminal charges by showing that marijuana was he.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Tue Mar 11, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- The leader of South Africa's governing ANC is at the Constitutional Court to try to prevent prosecutors using some evidence against him. Jacob Zuma's lawyers argue his constitutional rights to privacy were violated when investigators raided his home th.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 8:08am neoform

SF Gate -- Private citizens can sue to enforce California's food labeling laws, the state Supreme Court said Monday in a ruling that revives a consumer complaint about the chemically induced orange coloring of salmon raised on fish farms. Consumer lawsuits filed.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 11:02pm neoform

FOX News -- The parents of 12-year-old Michelle Cedillo asked a federal court Monday to find that their child's autism was caused by common childhood vaccines, a precedent-setting case that could pave the way for thousands of autistic children to receive compensation.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 10:22am neoform

SF Gate -- For more than a decade, families across the country have been warring with the medical establishment over their claims that routine childhood vaccines are responsible for the nation's apparent epidemic of autism. In an extraordinary proceeding that begins.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Apr 12, 2007 @ 11:48pm neoform

MSNBC -- Until late last year, Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals of Norcross, Ga., appeared to be a thriving business with a hot-selling line of natural dietary supplements. But in a bizarre case quietly unfolding in federal court in Atlanta, prosecutors allege that it was.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Mon Mar 26, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

Yahoo News -- Global drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline faces a court case on Tuesday for misleading advertising after two 14-year-olds found its popular blackcurrant drink Ribena contained almost no vitamin C. High school students Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo tested the.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 12:13am neoform

Globe and Mail -- A woman jailed for two years before murder charges in her daughter's death were dropped went to Ontario's highest court Monday looking to sue the pathologist whose findings helped put her behind bars. Louise Reynolds appeared before the Ontario Court o.. Read More